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Albert Camus' "The Plague" - Term Papers

Albert Camus' "The Plague"

The novel that I chose to do this report on was, "The Plague", by Albert
Camus. It is about a plague that hit the European countries in the middle ages.
I chose to describe the literary term of parallelism. Here are some following
facts about the story's plot that involve parallelism through the novel.

The novel begins at Oran where the plague becomes known. The main
character, Dr. Gernard Rieux, is a doctor. In the beginning of the story he
finds a dead rat on the floor. Even in those times rats were not found dead on
the middle of the floor. This was unusual, but he threw out the rat and forgot
about it. Eventually the dead rats began to pile into large masses and ...

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seemed paralyzed. Mr.
Rieux tried to help the man the best that he could, but he ended up dying.
Michael was the first person to die of this illness. After his death, many
cases of this illness were reported widespread. Again more details of sickness
and death, this is the parallelism for this novel.

As the reports of sickness and death came to inform Dr. Rieux, he tried
to comfort and cure the plagued patients. About ninety percent of the people
infected had died. He wanted a stop to this plague. Quickly he linked the rats
with the people. He knew that the rats began to get sick before the people did.
At this time many people had the plague, except for the Chinese visitors. They
never were infected. As the plot moves on death, sickness and the plague are
still relevant.

He studied their behaviors and everyday tasks and learned that they do
something that was never often done in these middle ages. Not many people in
these days bathed. The doctor began to ...

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Added: 7/16/2006 12:01:34 PM
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