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A 4 page paper which examines the theme of imprisonment in Albert Camus’ work “The Plague” and “The Outsider.” No additional sources cited.
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obvious being physically imprisoned. There are, however, many levels of imprisonment that exist within us, levels of imprisonment that keep us from living and loving. Albert Camus was a writer
whose work touched on many different aspects of imprisonment, often using physical imprisonment as a backdrop for personal imprisonment. The following paper looks at Camus "The Plague" and "The Outsider"
(The Stranger), offering quotes that illustrate different aspects of imprisonment within the novels. The Plague In "The Plague" we are given a story about a town that suffers
from a plague and the town must be essentially quarrentined from the rest of the surrounding country. This premise offers up the physical reality of imprisonment. But, with Camus work
often presenting the reader with deep spiritual and philosophical examinations, this story goes far deeper than the simple isolation of a town. This is evident in the very beginning when
we see how that in this town of Oran, "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 Part 1, pg. 4" (Bookrags [2]). In this quote we
see how the people in this town were essentially imprisoned in their own little useless lives as they went about getting rich, imprisoned within the need to have money. However
the plague comes and strengthens the theme that these people have always been imprisoned though they did not know it. Camus states, "They fancied themselves free, and no one will
ever be free so long as there are pestilences Part 1, pg. 37" (Bookrags [2]). This quote indicates that while men can think themselves free they are never free from
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