While some may call the novel existentialist in nature, Camus himself refused to agree. "That Existentialist philosophies offered him a vocabulary from which he occasionally borrowed is of secondary importance in his case" (Bree, Camus 74)
While some may call the novel existentialist in nature, Camus himself refused to agree. "That Existentialist philosophies offered him a vocabulary from which he occasionally borrowed is of secondary importance in his case" (Bree, Camus 74)
The war is not the issue here: "The significant potential of the Plague encompasses war, but includes other levels of meaning as well" (Ellison 95). He was not only trying to ignite passion in the people of Europe for their own safety, but he was more concerned with something greater as Rambert comments: "We -- mankind -- have lost the capacity for love" (Camus, 149)
"That Existentialist philosophies offered him a vocabulary from which he occasionally borrowed is of secondary importance in his case" (Bree, Camus 74). He categorically said: "No, I am not an existentialist" (Doubrovsky 345)
It was only when France came under attack and English people faced an immediate threat that some sound action was taken to thwart Hitler's consistent attacks. The war is not the issue here: "The significant potential of the Plague encompasses war, but includes other levels of meaning as well" (Ellison 95)
. some individuals in the revolt against the Plague are sharply silhouetted" (Maquet 79)
Camus used plague as an allegorical device because writing about plague was definitely not his purpose. "To simplify things, one can say that the Plague is an allegorical novel" (Picon 146)
The plague unites the people because they finally realize that it is only through helping each other that they could help themselves. No individual action amounts to much as vicims increase in number each day: "The Plague does, beyond any possible discussion, represent the transition from an attitude of solitary revolt to the recognition of a community whose struggles must be shared" (Sprintzen 103)
Meursault is utterly selfish and cares only about himself, leading the reader to find him unsympathetic and annoying. He feels no remorse or sadness at her passing, and instead, notices inconsequential details about her friends who mourn for hers, such as their "big paunches" (Camus 10) and the details of their dress and manner
It is the responsibility of public bodies as well as the citizens to act well in time in order to avoid the sufferings. Race is a means of identification of people and not the means of discrimination (Albert Camus: The Plague and an Ethic of Nonviolence, 1998)
Camus suggested that most people live an irrational existence and must therefore suffer an "absurd death sentence" however he also believed that people could enjoy meaning within life, and perhaps Father Paneloux found meaning in his prayerful existence (Ward, 1995). Ultimately through the characters in the work Camus successfully presents the idea that rebellion against the suffering occurring from the plague is absurd (Bronner, 1999)
¶ … Plague: Albert Camus Camu's Philosophy Albert Camus' philosophy is often defined as the "philosophy of the absurd" the idea that life has no rational or real meaning (Ward, 2005)
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