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A 5 page essay that analyzes the structure and allegorical meaning of Albert Camus' The Plague. The writer argues that while ostensibly Camus describes the way that the plague devastated a the town of Oran, on another level, parallels can be drawn between Camus' fictional situation and the manner in which Nazis overran France during World War II. No additional sources cited.
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Oran, on another level, parallels can be drawn between Camus fictional situation and the manner in which Nazis overran France during World War II. The following discussion will discuss the
allegorical aspects of this work, as well as providing the student researching this topic with an overall perspective on this text. First of all, The Plague takes the form
of a chronicle, which is defined as a journal, i.e. a day-to-day account of an event as it is actually happening over a period of time. This sort of a
recording of a historical event is radically different from what one might find in a traditional history book, in that it is generally written as soon after the actual events
being recorded have taken place. In other words, there is no way to have an overview of the situation, or to be able to discern what aspects of the event
will be judged by scholars at some later day as historically significant. In real life, chronicles are part of the raw material from which historical accounts are formulated. By
presenting his account of the plague in this form, Camus gives an immediacy and urgency to his prose. On an April morning in the 1940s in Oran, Algeria, Dr.
Rieux, who is preoccupied with the departure of his ill wife to a sanatorium, finds a dead rat. This event heralds the onset of one of the worst disease known
to humanity, the bubonic plague. For the next ten months, the city is literally and figuratively "besieged" as it is quarantine until the disease can be eradicated. Camus makes it
clear that this "imprisonment" by the plague is the moral equivalent to other forms of occupation. The peaceful and unprepared town of Oran is overcome by the plague
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