Criticism Of Heroism In The Plague, By Albert Camus

Geraldine Brook’s novel, Year of Wonders is based on a true story which recounts a 17th Century Plague, which struck the English village of Eyam and put many in strife. The story revolves around the protagonist, Anna Frith as she develops strength throughout the novel from being a maid in the beginning of the novel and eventually becomes a midwife. Similarly, Steven Soderbergh’s Film, Contagion is set in 21st Century America, which narrates the epidemic of the MEV1 virus, which causes dispute amongst many characters and has a manipulative effect on the characters in the film. In both the text and the novel, Diseases not only attack individuals but also causes the breakdown in society. Diseases cause the greed and the want for money in some characters, which has a huge impact on society as a whole. Similarly, diseases cause the need for self-preservation in order to survive. On the other hand, diseases cause characters to lose faith.

Norman F. Cantor, In the Wake of the Plague (New York: Harper Collins First Perennial edition, 2001) examines how the bubonic plague, or Black Death, affected Europe in the fourteenth century. Cantor recounts specific events in the time leading up to the plague, during the plague, and in the aftermath of the plague. He wrote the book to relate the experiences of victims and survivors and to illustrate the impact that the plague had on the government, families, religion, the social structure, and art.

The bubonic plague was by far one of the worst epidemics that would strike in the Middle Ages. The disease would soon present itself in two different forms such as one that would infect the blood stream; second, infected the lungs causing a respiratory infection. Historian writer Barbara Tuchman would be able to catch the readers attention by using such vivid writing and detailed research. In her essay “This is the End of the World’ The Black Death,” Tuchman, avoids dullness by presenting examples to see and feel the awfulness of the plague.

The book When Plague Strikes, is about 3 deadly diseases. It 's about the Black Death, Smallpox, and AIDS. Each of these diseases can cause a serious outrage of death. The book also tells about how doctors try to come up with treatments, medicines, and antibiotics to try and cure these diseases. All these diseases got the best out of everyone. Some people reacted differently than others with these diseases. All the diseases came in play in A. D. 1347, when the Black Death broke out for the first time in what’s today is know. As southern Ukraine.

There was annual person collecting dead bodies, piled them on top of each other, then rolled them away to be thrown in a “plague pit”. These were just the daily events of their lives during the Bubonic Plague period. Surrounded by turmoil and remorse, the people who survived the plague had nothing left, they had no hope, no happiness, no one to share surviving with, and the anguish that was left from everyone around them dying.

Sometimes the missteps of the medical community went so far as to cause inadvertent harm. Jacme D’agramont, physician and professor, writes in his “Regiment de preservacio a epidimia o pestiliencia e mortaldats” of the dangers of bathing because it opens one’s pores and “through these pores corrupt air enters and has a powerful influence upon our body and on our humors.” (Aberth, 1186). The entire period was wrought with novelty cures and hypotheses about overcoming the plague, and so often these approaches failed that eventually the people would find solace wherever they could. Even art had a voice in coping with the Black Death. Much of the art was not only therapeutic for the artists and those who enjoyed them but they serve as an insight into the shared setiments of the time. These pieces understandably emphasize death and its inevitability as a primary theme. While the real victor over the plague turned out to be time, this perspective on conflict serves as a testament to the long-suffering determination of humanity to survive and thrive.

The Plague of Athens, taking place in 429 B.C.E., is the first mass killing plague known to historians today. However, this doesn’t mean that it wasn’t as dangerous as plagues later on in history. In total 100,000 people died which is equivalent to more than one-third of the Greece population. In the book “The Plague”, the city of Oran is overrun by a deadly disease. In both the Plague of Athens and the novel “The Plague” by Albert Camus, similarities occurred such as the diffusion of the disease, the symptoms and causes, and the social change.

A book of horrors, fear and death. “The Plague” is a book by Albert Camus which weaves these emotions and events into one suspenseful tale. Each paragraph and section is written and structured in such a way as to give the reader insight into the feelings of the victims of the plague, and to show somewhat of a theme. The passage from section 4, part 4, line number 1 to line number 35 gives us a glimpse of the melancholy of the people of Oran to their dead loved ones to the extent that they do not attend All Souls' Day, for they were thinking of them too much as it was. Albert Camus fills this passage with figurative devices, including, diction, personification, pathetic fallacy, metaphors, irony and a turning point. The first two paragraphs

"The Black Death" is known as the worst natural disaster in European history. The plague spread throughout Europe from 1346-1352. Those who survived lived in constant fear of the plague's return and it did not disappear until the 1600s. Not only were the effects devastating at the time of infection, but during the aftermath as well. "The Black Death" of the fourteenth century dramatically altered Europe's social and economic structure.

The mini-painting, Cover Girl, reflects both the blindness of society to cruel biases and the stereotype of the role of women in society. The flowers covering the girl’s eyes represent how people only see what they want to see, and cushion the harsh daily reality of unequal treatment of many different people, including racial differences, differences in sexuality, etc. The flowers float in front of the girl’s eyes to show that she is not voluntarily numbing reality, but the flowers are held in place in front of her for her own good and happiness. It shows that ignorance does mean bliss in society, and that’s how a system of oppression being held in place. This connects to Kindred because the system of oppression is continued by blindness and acceptance, just like the girl in the painting is blinded for her own sake and happiness.

After the quarantine lasts quite a few months, many of Oran 's citizens lose their selfish obsession with personal suffering and come to recognize the plague as a collective disaster that is everyone 's concern, and join anti-plague efforts. The citizens are subjected to their Christian beliefs being tested and the citizens must choose to believe everything or nothing about God. All or the citizens faced difficulties during the plague epidemic, excluding Dr. Rieux, who faced irreparable difficulties die. This leads to the other citizens’ difficulties becoming resolved after the quarantine and the public quickly returns to its old routine of normalcy. Dr. Rieux knows that the fight against the plague is endless because it can exist dormant for years. The Plague is his account of the situation of human suffering that so many people are willing to easily forget.

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The Great Plague was a pandemic that killed many people, and for the people from the olden times the plague equaled painful death; it was torture. As a result, many people categorize ‘the Great Plague’ as a catastrophe that had caused huge damage in Europe, but without this epidemic, we many not have had substantial changes that lead us to the modern day we have now.

The Plague (French, La Peste) is a novel written by Albert Camus that is about an epidemic of bubonic plague. The Plague is set in a small Mediterranean town in North Africa called Oran. Dr. Bernard Rieux, one of the main characters, describes it as an ugly town. Oran’s inhabitants are boring people who appear to live, for the most part, habitual lives. The main focus of the town is money. “…everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits. Our citizens work hard, but solely with the object of getting rich. Their chief interest is in commerce, and their chief aim in life is, as they call it, 'doing business’” (Camus 4). The citizens’ unawareness of life’s riches and pleasures show their susceptibility to the oncoming plague.

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