Sunday, 3-May-2020.
#COVID - 19
Hello Readers...
Hello dear Readers, Welcome back on my new blogs. You are thinking how I'm telling this in vaction time but as we know study can't stop in vaction. So we can start again our blogging. Today I am sharing one new blog about Covid-19 epidemic and humanity and religion etc things. The Plauge book is also informative book for the disease.
The Plague novel written by Albert Camus and published in 1947.Albert Camus’ The Plague (Modern Library College Editions, 1947) is much different in tone from The Stranger (Vintage, 1989). Where that book was tightly constructed in monochromatic set pieces and spare language like the opening when Meursault keeps vigil with his mother’s body, and integrates color only after Meursault murders the Arab, The Plague is a more traditional novel in scope and sequence. The novel is set in the 1940's, in the Algerian city Oran, which actually suffered from a cholera epidemic in 1849. The title makes it clear that the Plague will come, no matter how resistant Oran's citizens are at the beginning.
Hello Readers...
Hello dear Readers, Welcome back on my new blogs. You are thinking how I'm telling this in vaction time but as we know study can't stop in vaction. So we can start again our blogging. Today I am sharing one new blog about Covid-19 epidemic and humanity and religion etc things. The Plauge book is also informative book for the disease.
The Plague - Albert Camus.
The Plague novel written by Albert Camus and published in 1947.Albert Camus’ The Plague (Modern Library College Editions, 1947) is much different in tone from The Stranger (Vintage, 1989). Where that book was tightly constructed in monochromatic set pieces and spare language like the opening when Meursault keeps vigil with his mother’s body, and integrates color only after Meursault murders the Arab, The Plague is a more traditional novel in scope and sequence. The novel is set in the 1940's, in the Algerian city Oran, which actually suffered from a cholera epidemic in 1849. The title makes it clear that the Plague will come, no matter how resistant Oran's citizens are at the beginning.
The slowly creeping disease is described masterfully as it changes from threat to imminent danger. Throughout, Camus manages to not let the book slide into mass-hysteria. By that I mean that it would have been easy , at this point in the novel, to over-dramatize and explicitly state the horror of the Plague. Camus' understated yet severe writing style brings the fear of the Plague much closer because it showcases the inability of the people to do anything about it.
Critics have argued that this was Camus bringing in his notions of the Absurd. Absurdism is a philosophical theory that argues that humans constantly seek for a meaning to life, yet are incapable of finding that meaning. This is perhaps best characterized by the characters of Grand, I feel. Grand is a writer of questionable talents, who spends the majority of the novel trying to find the perfect opening line to his novel. In the constant adding, changing and removing of adjectives, Grand hopes to give a meaning to a sentence that is simple in its essence. The sentence becomes meaningless as Grand mulls over it and it is one of the few true tragedies in the novel that this man is incapable of letting his search for meaning go and thereby misses out on his own life.
The story is set in Oran, a French port on the Algerian coast.
Quite suddenly, the town begins to take notice of a large number of rats dying in the streets and alleys and homes of the citizens. Before people can delve too deeply into the rat problem, human beings become victims of what appears to be an outbreak of Bubonic plague. The tell-tale signs include the chicken egg sized swelling of lymph nodes, a high fever, and almost certain death. We know from the history of the bacterial infection that its propensity to wipe out whole towns and populations makes it a frightening adversary in its relentless march to claim its victims.
The story takes place in Oran, then part of French Algeria. As the narrative unfolds, Bubonic Plague breaks out and spreads throughout the city. As the epidemic worsens, the authorities impose emergency measures. As part of the decrees, the city is sealed off and quarantined. Eventually, hundreds begin to die on a daily basis. The citizens of Oran experience enormous suffering and hardship.
As it becomes imperative that the sick are cared for, the dead are disposed of and other remedial services are to be performed, many people decide to ban together, at great personal risk, as they attempt to fight the malady. The tale is told from the point of view of an initially unknown narrator who is eventually revealed as one of the main characters. Several of the city’s inhabitants figure prominently in the narrative. Dr. Bernard Rieux fights against the plague and is involved with both Oran’s authorities as well as many of the stricken.
Jean Tarrou, a man dedicated to fighting human suffering and cruelty, organizes the citizens of Oran to combat the malady. Joseph Grand is a government bureaucrat whose life is initially somewhat aimless, but he rises to the occasion when the time comes for sacrifice in battling the scourge. The mysterious Cottard is initially suicidal, but eventually comes to profit from the epidemic. Many additional characters figure prominently in the story.
Albert Camus’s novel needs to be read in this time of Covid-19. Camus’ characters are touched by the disease and come to an understanding of the fragility of life. As evidenced by the ridiculous behavior of many Americans these days, we have yet to gain such wisdom from this pestilence. There is hope, however, that enlightenment will come, and we will move forward with caution and empathy for each other as we are reminded nearly every day, that we are in this together.
