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So, Here I would like to discuss Albert Camus's novel The Plague. Albert Camus's classic novel The Plague tells the story of a plague outbreak that sweeps through Algerian town of Oran, during the French era. Here I would like to put one interesting blog by Dr. Dilip Barad ( CLICK HERE) which will helps us to better understand The Plague.
So, Here I would like to discuss Albert Camus's novel The Plague. Albert Camus's classic novel The Plague tells the story of a plague outbreak that sweeps through Algerian town of Oran, during the French era. Here I would like to put one interesting blog by Dr. Dilip Barad ( CLICK HERE) which will helps us to better understand The Plague.
💠The Plague :-
"I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing."
~ Albert Camus
The novel The Plague is written by Albert Camus, published in 1947. The book written in sparse, haunting prose. Throughout his life, Camus was deeply concerned with the problem of human suffering in an indifferent world. In The Plague, Camus addresses the collective response to catastrophe when a large city in Algeria is isolated due to an outbreak of the bubonic plague. Although the effort to alleviate and prevent human suffering seems to make little or no difference in the ravages of the plague, Camus asserts that perseverance in the face of tragedy is a noble struggle even if it ultimately fails to make an appreciable difference. Such catastrophes test the tension between individual self-interest and social responsibility.
💠VIDEO :- Albert Camus - The Plague by the school of life :-
💠VIDEO :- Albert Camus - The Plague by the school of life :-
This video gave us best explanation of the novel with simple way. In the January 1941 , the twenty eight years old French writer Albert Camus began work on a novel about a virus that spreads uncontrollably from animals to human and ends up destroying half the population of a representative modern town. It was called La paste / The Plague. Plague is very relatable in present time of Covid-19 pandemic. We can find many similarities between Plague and Covid-19 virus.
" Camus speaks to us in our own times not because he was a magical seer who could intimate what the best epidemiologists could not, but because he correctly sized up human nature and knew about a fundamental and absurd vulnerability in us that we cannot usually bear to remember. In the words of one of his characters, Camus knew, as we do not, that ‘everyone has inside it himself this plague, because no one in the world, no one, can ever be immune."
💠Science v/s religion :-
Both science and religion are complex social and cultural endeavours that very across cultur and change over time. And also we all know that science and religion is like two side of one coin. Here we focused on two main characters in the Camus' " The Plague", were illness transcends history, expressing the conflict between the religion and science. This conflict is shown by the opposite opinions of Bernard Rieux , an atheistic doctor who represents science and Paneloux, a Jesuit who symbolizes faith in the novel. In particular, the debate between Rieux and Paneloux summaries the cultural stratification of biblical roots , that is arrived to the western literature through two often crossed traditions : the literary tradition and the polemic tradition, that is relative to the connection between illness and faith.
💠Work citation :-
• Camus, Albert (1970). Philip Thody (ed.). Albert Camus: Lyrical and Critical Essays. Ellen Conroy Kennedy, translator. Vintage Books. ISBN 978-0-394-70852-2.
" Camus speaks to us in our own times not because he was a magical seer who could intimate what the best epidemiologists could not, but because he correctly sized up human nature and knew about a fundamental and absurd vulnerability in us that we cannot usually bear to remember. In the words of one of his characters, Camus knew, as we do not, that ‘everyone has inside it himself this plague, because no one in the world, no one, can ever be immune."
💠Science v/s religion :-
Both science and religion are complex social and cultural endeavours that very across cultur and change over time. And also we all know that science and religion is like two side of one coin. Here we focused on two main characters in the Camus' " The Plague", were illness transcends history, expressing the conflict between the religion and science. This conflict is shown by the opposite opinions of Bernard Rieux , an atheistic doctor who represents science and Paneloux, a Jesuit who symbolizes faith in the novel. In particular, the debate between Rieux and Paneloux summaries the cultural stratification of biblical roots , that is arrived to the western literature through two often crossed traditions : the literary tradition and the polemic tradition, that is relative to the connection between illness and faith.
💠Work citation :-
• Camus, Albert (1970). Philip Thody (ed.). Albert Camus: Lyrical and Critical Essays. Ellen Conroy Kennedy, translator. Vintage Books. ISBN 978-0-394-70852-2.
