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The Plague

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The Plague	comment	A classic 1947 novel by Albert Camus, The Plague (La Peste in French), on the surface, tells the story of an epidemic of the bubonic plague that besets the Algerian city of Oran, imprisoning the citizens behind quarantine. The protagonists, including Dr. Bernard Rieux, a man named Jean Tarrou, a visiting journalist Raymond Rambert, and a city clerk Joseph Grand must respond to the plague and find their place in the ensuing depressing conditions, while philosophizing on the nature of suffering and the proper response thereto.The plague is generally accepted to be a metaphor for the "brown plague," fascism, which spread throughout Europe in the 30s, and more specifically for the occupation of France by Nazi Germany in 1940. Oran is the equivalent of France: cut off from the outside world, the inhabitants have to choose whether to submit to the inevitability of dying of the plague (the historical inevitability of Germany's dominance) or to fight back against the plague by joining the sanitary teams (the Resistance).More generally, the book is an allegorical tale in which Camus expounds on his views about the human condition. When the possibility of death at any time makes life absurd, the only thing to do is to give one's life meaning is to rebel against an unjust world, live passionately and strive for freedom.The novel received a film adaptation in 1992 by Argentine director Luis Puenzo, starring William Hurt, Robert Duvall, and Raúl Juliá, and featuring music by Vangelis.
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The Plague / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: The narrator makes notations of this frequently about the plague, and extends it to life as a whole via Tarrou's musings about his own life. More literally to the trope, Grand plays with this having a bad bout of plague but coming back around soon, but Dr. Richard, M. Othon, Father Paneloux, and Tarrou are among the narrative's plague casualties. Rieux's wife as well, although not from the Plague.
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The Plague / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
The Plague / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic/The Pollyanna: Rieux. He loses the Pollyanna aspects a bit after Tarrou dies.
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The Plague / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Plague / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: Richard and the prefect committee. They dismiss Rieux and Castel's advice, refusing to instate prophylactic measures until they have conclusive proof that the disease is plague (even as Rieux claims that it almost certainly is plague, and estimates that half of Oran's population will be dead within two months).
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The Plague / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
The Plague / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: Unusually for the book, but one particular section does so: Rambert trying to leave Oran. He finds a man who has connections, meets the connections who have insight into the city guard, and two guardsman who are willing to smuggle him out. The plan fails due to one of the guards being replaced due to catching plague, and in order to try again, Rambert has to go back to square one and do the entire process over again, only for it to not pan out as well due to a shift change. Rambert eventually gets fed up with it, and half his reason for staying in Oran is purely because trying to get out is more circuitous than trying to help.
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The Plague / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
The Plague / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: The plague doesn't spare children. In a notable case of playing with the trope, when a child who was deemed a hopeless case is spared, it's a sign the plague is on the retreat.
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The Plague / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Plague / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Cottard shoots one at random in the last scene, though this is not necessarily a sign of evilness, just insanity.
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The Plague / int_34dd5f3	type	La RÃ©sistance
The Plague / int_34dd5f3	comment	La Résistance: In the context of the allegory—the plague as the Occupation—the sanitary teams form a resistance that is fighting back against the unspeakable evil of the plague.
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The Plague / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
The Plague / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development Rambert is at first desperate to escape the city with any means possible to see his wife again, but he eventually decides to stay and help the people. Othon starts out as a traditional 50s French father, saying impeccably polite and very nasty things to his wife and kids. He gets more emotional, and more altruistic, later in the book after his son dies.
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The Plague / int_3d4d3dc9	type	Humans Are Bastards
The Plague / int_3d4d3dc9	comment	Humans Are Bastards: Tarrou holds this viewpoint.
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The Plague / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Plague / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The plague ends, Rambert reunites with his beloved, but many people die before that happens, including one doctor who once predicted that the plague would end soon, Tarrou and finally Rieux's wife. And Rieux knows that one day, the plague might return.
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The Plague / int_4d737932	type	Lockdown
The Plague / int_4d737932	comment	Lockdown: A city-wide one. The novel explores how this affects the inhabitants psychologically when they are trapped away from their loved ones for months.
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The Plague / int_4eaa9b84	type	Author Tract
The Plague / int_4eaa9b84	comment	Author Tract: Camus exposes his philosophy in a much more explicit way than he did in The Stranger. But this was in some ways necessary as this book serves to exorcise the bitter memories of the Occupation. Plus, the committee for the Nobel Prize for Literature didn't seem to mind.
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The Plague / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
The Plague / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: To be expected in a work about bubonic plague.
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The Plague / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
The Plague / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Tarrou at one point remarks "And, anyway, we've never had much use for the police."
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The Plague / int_653c5c73	type	Cannot Spit It Out
The Plague / int_653c5c73	comment	Cannot Spit It Out: Grand, a rare non-romance (or rather not-just-romance) example.
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The Plague / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
The Plague / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: Rambert, like Camus, is a journalist with a strong sense of justice who has investigated the living conditions of the Arab population of Algeria.
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The Plague / int_6c275297	type	The Fettered
The Plague / int_6c275297	comment	The Fettered: Tarrou, who dedicated his life to fight against killing, though he later became disillusioned.
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The Plague / int_768ae1c9	type	Les Collaborateurs
The Plague / int_768ae1c9	comment	Les Collaborateurs: After his suicide attempt, Cottard basically turns into the quintessential Pétain supporter and profits off the plague much in the way collaborators profited from the Nazi Occupation; he is one of the only people who is sad to see the plague go.
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The Plague / int_88574a	type	Narrator All Along
The Plague / int_88574a	comment	Narrator All Along: Bernard Rieux.
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The Plague / int_9a6b3140	type	Delayed Narrator Introduction
The Plague / int_9a6b3140	comment	Delayed Narrator Introduction: The narrator pointedly refrains from revealing his identity until the end, though the third-person limited Point of View makes it fairly obvious who he is.
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The Plague / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
The Plague / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: The song "Saint James Infirmary."
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The Plague / int_add931af	type	I Choose to Stay
The Plague / int_add931af	comment	I Choose to Stay: Rambert goes to great lengths to escape the city, but when he finally is at the brink of achieving his goal, he decides he'd rather stay in Oran and help the protagonists in fighting the plague.
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The Plague / int_b179eb00	type	Tragic Bromance
The Plague / int_b179eb00	comment	Tragic Bromance: Tarrou and Rieux.
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The Plague / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Plague / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: To The Stranger - a Frenchman from Algiers who was arrested for shooting an Arab on the beach is mentioned.
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The Plague / int_dfdcd12d	type	2 + Torture = 5
The Plague / int_dfdcd12d	comment	2 + Torture = 5: Camus wrote, very similarly to Orwell "again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two makes four is punished by death".
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The Plague / int_e0aed924	type	No Antagonist
The Plague / int_e0aed924	comment	No Antagonist: Unless you count the plague itself, anyway.
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