Plague -Epidemic Literature

Hello viewers,

      How are you all? I hope everyone is well during this pestilence of COVID- 19. We all knows that  this corona virus is spred all over the world. Present time is very tough for everyone. But during 20th century there was one disease which was also spread like corona virus,it was Plague.

 Introduction :

 

       When some event happened,it is  also sketched by writers with words on page. So, when we talk about the Plague,in English literature there is a novel  The Plague. This novel is written by Albert Camus. This novel published in 1947.lets discuss this book in brief and see how present situations are  related with those day. Is there any difference in situations or not? If yes then how.

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The Plague :-

   This is  the novel which is written by  European writer Albert Camus. This novel published in 1947. During this year so many event were occurred.

    This book written in sparse hunting prose takes us through a catastrophic outbreak of a disease in the lightly fictionalised town of on the Algerian coast as seen through the eyes of the  novel.

    Plague was sweeping in  the French Algerian city Oran. Dr. Barnard Rienux who is the narrator of the novel and by profession he was a doctor. Dr. Rienux and Dr. Castle were help those who were suffering from this disease. They both work on that and gave this  disease  as a Plague. This disease was spread by moose who were died and blood came out from their nose. So this how it is spread by animal to human.

   

   They informed Authority about the disease and  the death of moose like this in city. Passing some time this disease became a pendamic. Situation became very critical because there were no any remedy for it.

   In the novel The Plague another character of Father named Father paneloux, he said that because  of people doing so many sin that's why God gave us this punishment. This pandemic is the punishment.

   

  Rambert is one of the character of novel he was a journalist. He came from Paris, now he want go back to his wife because she was sick. But situations is that no one came from another city and none can go out of city.

  Cottard was a person who is the person in novel who want to commit suicide. But he was still alive. Now everyone  is in prison. Jean Tarrou who was came from France for vacation in Oran and the Epidemic was spread.

   At  the  end people got the victory  and fought  with the pendamic of plague.

     When we read it we feel like we are living that kind of life which lived by people of Oran due to Plague. We are live this because of covid 19.some change are in present time but everything is like same situation. 

Task point:- 

Humanity - self centerdness vs self sacrifices

     Here we have  to aspect of humanity; self -centered and self sacrifice. In the novel Plague we can get both kind of human who want to help other and also who also thought about only self. 

  Dr. Barnard Rieunx who help those were suffering from the plague even his wife was ill and he could not meet her. Dr. Castle also help him to fight and to find remedy for this disease. Cottard and Raymond Rambert was only think about their self. 

    Father Paneloux who gave message to people that citizen of Oran, did so many sin that's why God gave us punishment.He talked about religion perspective. 

    But at  the end Raymond Rambert also helped those people who were suffering from Pandemic of plague. 

  So everyone at the end had been self -sacrifice except cottard and Father. But father changed his statement because  he  realise that children were also died. What kind of sin  done by them?

Some time situation like this;

   "you can get through the days three there without trouble, once you have formed habits. and since habits are precisely what our town encourage, all is for the best viewed from this angle. it's life is not particularly exciting that must be admitted. but at least, social unrest is quite unknown among us! "

Science vs Religion - The question of God and Religion in time of epidemic and calamities :

        As we know that science is believe in proof and logic while religion has so many bling believe and some time we never find any logic behind it. When we talk about epidemic and calamities we can say that it is not God who gave  punishment us but sometimes our deed which also came back to us. 

   Science always  want to find the reason behind such circumstances and  situations with questions Why?  How? So who knows the science or knowledge to understand  science and no any kind of blind faith they  will go with science.

    Who the people not literate and they had blind faith in Religion they will never accept science.  

   In the novel two person like Dr. Rienux and Father paneloux. Dr. Barnard Remix did not believe that God gave punishment of sin done by human. Because he knew about deid moose and systems of  disease and also in patient.

Apart from that Father paneloux preach in church on Sunday that this all happened because of oranian  did sin. It's not important to be a saint but saint is who help other. Dr. Barnard didn't believe in god so he said that

    "What interests me is learning how to become a saint"
    "But you don't believe in God "
"Exactly! Can one be a saint without God? That's the problem in fact the only the problem, I'm up against today ".

  

Power politics -Fascist forces of 1940s vs Survelillance  society of 2020s:

   

    Power is a very wide word when it connects with politics it's became more wide.

   We can  see in the novel  that in starting authority didn't take situation as serious. So they just managed to remove died moose. But after some time when situation became critical they take strict step for that.

    No one can go out of city and none can came from other cities. There are prohibited by authority. Raymond Rambert wants to go back but he couldn't.

    Present time  when we facing pendmic of Covid 19 .we all are survellince by government. Police, NCC cadets and other volunteers are paying there duty. They all are working to save other life.

So government makes so many effect to protect people from this disease.
     
         થોભો ને રાહ જુઓ.... 

          થોભો... રાહ જુઓ.... ટકી રહો.... 

  We have  not situation from our authority. But naturally we should wait for that time when everything will be as it is as before. 

"Everyone knows that pestilence have away of recurring in world yet ;somehow we find it hard to believe in one's that crash down on our heads from a blue sky. There have been as many plague as wars in history yet always plague and wars take people equally by surprise ".

  How this narrative is an Archetypal of epidemic literature :

Covid -19 is the pendamic of 2020s.si many people are died because of it. When this kind of epidemic occurs all over the world, quetion is raised about existence. Before the Covid 19 there were epidemic happened.

Plague

Flu

Chicken pox

Polio

In the The plague is also universal and the the novel as well. This narrative is about the situation which take place in Oran. How people died and the hectic circumstances were happened during this epidemic. In many literature work we can find about the epidemic narrative. We can say this narrative is show us huminity and fight for existing. When we talk about literature and epidemics there is a novel by UR Ananthamurthy’s masterpiece, “Samskara”, one of the main characters dies of the plague.This disease is happen because of rat and by flea, it is spread in human.

Conclusion :

'The plague'  taught us many thing about life and our responsibility. In our world there were many pendamic like plague and other, present time we  are fighting with Covid 19.so we can came out this kind of situation of epidemic  if everyone has enough awerness , and also Follow social distancing. It will show our humanity and self centredness or self sacrifice.



Work citation :

Anantmurthy, U. R. Samskar . Radhakkrishna Publication , 1980.


Camus, Albert, and Stuart Gilbert. The Plague: Albert Camus. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1948. Print.

Tess, Laidlaw. “Epidemic Response Archetypes: Negotiating Unknowns in Pandemic Planning.” Health Science Inquiry, 11 Oct. 2010.