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# The plague is totalitarianism, and totalitarianism is also a plague!
# Camus's attitude of resistance in the face of disease and totalitarianism meticulously depicts the human spirit of resistance.
# The 1957 Nobel Prize-winning work.
# Recommended reading guides for Wu Xide and Hong Mingdao.
# "I wanted to use the plague to express the suffocation we feel, the atmosphere of threat and exile we experience. I also wanted to expand this interpretation to universal concepts." - Camus
The plague forces us to open our eyes and think.
All the evil in the world and the truth about the world itself will also appear in the plague.
In the face of such a plague, the only command people should follow is to resist.
— Camus —
Camus's "The Plague" is an important work in the history of literature. Whenever a pandemic strikes, this book is always one of the first modern literary works to be discussed. But Camus not only describes the plague, but also describes how mankind resisted and denied it at the beginning, then confirmed it, and finally honestly faced himself and the situation, and dealt with the plague that besieged mankind in a down-to-earth manner. This is too similar to everything we have experienced. First, we resisted the epidemic, and then denied that large-scale human-to-human transmission would occur. When the situation became serious, we had to confirm that we had encountered a major epidemic, and then we were willing to face the difficulties honestly and deal with them. Classic works have such value. They reflect the universal humanity across the ages and remind us all the time.
The story of "Plague" describes the city of Oran, Algeria in 1940. A doctor discovered an unknown disease in the city. He noticed many rats lying dead on the roadside. He began to suspect that there was plague in the city and reported it to the government agency, but the government The authorities didn't want to alarm the people, so they took no action. Later, when the epidemic broke out, the entire city was sealed off and isolated from the outside world. Several of the main characters in the novel, who are marginal figures (compared to powerful officials), each devoted themselves to epidemic prevention work in their own way. The story of "Plague" shows that in addition to understanding the absurdity of the world, you must stand up and resist in order to strive for your own happiness. The novel also mentions: "There is nothing shameful in the pursuit of happiness, but being happy alone may make people feel shameful." It indicates that this pursuit of happiness is not about personal small gains, but the happiness of the whole.
"The Plague", "The Resistance" and "The Just" belong to Camus's works in the same creative period. Camus called it the "Resistance Series" in his notes. This series of trilogy works consists of novels, essays, dramas, etc. The three genres repeatedly demonstrate the spirit of resistance between human beings and evil, appeal to personal cognitive resistance, and have the courage to draw limits and say no when faced with excessive things.
Camus was inspired to write "The Plague" when he was writing "The Stranger" in 1940. At that time, Germany occupied most of France. He moved to Clermont-Ferrand with the "Paris Evening News" where he worked, and then to Bordeaux, this feeling of being forced to flee, migrate, and besieged became his inspiration. On the one hand, "Plague" is about the typhus that actually happened in the French Algerian city of Oran at that time, and on the other hand, it refers to the German Nazi fascist regime that invaded France; infectious diseases force humans to block each other and doubt each other, just like The fascist regime also made people who were originally free suspicious of each other, and their movements were restricted and blocked. The novel uses the story of a city beset by disease to express a vision of resistance that transcends absurdity: the possibility of unity in the fight against evil, and the power of friendship and community. I resist, therefore we exist.
# Camus's attitude of resistance in the face of disease and totalitarianism meticulously depicts the human spirit of resistance.
# The 1957 Nobel Prize-winning work.
# Recommended reading guides for Wu Xide and Hong Mingdao.
# "I wanted to use the plague to express the suffocation we feel, the atmosphere of threat and exile we experience. I also wanted to expand this interpretation to universal concepts." - Camus
The plague forces us to open our eyes and think.
All the evil in the world and the truth about the world itself will also appear in the plague.
In the face of such a plague, the only command people should follow is to resist.
— Camus —
Camus's "The Plague" is an important work in the history of literature. Whenever a pandemic strikes, this book is always one of the first modern literary works to be discussed. But Camus not only describes the plague, but also describes how mankind resisted and denied it at the beginning, then confirmed it, and finally honestly faced himself and the situation, and dealt with the plague that besieged mankind in a down-to-earth manner. This is too similar to everything we have experienced. First, we resisted the epidemic, and then denied that large-scale human-to-human transmission would occur. When the situation became serious, we had to confirm that we had encountered a major epidemic, and then we were willing to face the difficulties honestly and deal with them. Classic works have such value. They reflect the universal humanity across the ages and remind us all the time.
The story of "Plague" describes the city of Oran, Algeria in 1940. A doctor discovered an unknown disease in the city. He noticed many rats lying dead on the roadside. He began to suspect that there was plague in the city and reported it to the government agency, but the government The authorities didn't want to alarm the people, so they took no action. Later, when the epidemic broke out, the entire city was sealed off and isolated from the outside world. Several of the main characters in the novel, who are marginal figures (compared to powerful officials), each devoted themselves to epidemic prevention work in their own way. The story of "Plague" shows that in addition to understanding the absurdity of the world, you must stand up and resist in order to strive for your own happiness. The novel also mentions: "There is nothing shameful in the pursuit of happiness, but being happy alone may make people feel shameful." It indicates that this pursuit of happiness is not about personal small gains, but the happiness of the whole.
"The Plague", "The Resistance" and "The Just" belong to Camus's works in the same creative period. Camus called it the "Resistance Series" in his notes. This series of trilogy works consists of novels, essays, dramas, etc. The three genres repeatedly demonstrate the spirit of resistance between human beings and evil, appeal to personal cognitive resistance, and have the courage to draw limits and say no when faced with excessive things.
Camus was inspired to write "The Plague" when he was writing "The Stranger" in 1940. At that time, Germany occupied most of France. He moved to Clermont-Ferrand with the "Paris Evening News" where he worked, and then to Bordeaux, this feeling of being forced to flee, migrate, and besieged became his inspiration. On the one hand, "Plague" is about the typhus that actually happened in the French Algerian city of Oran at that time, and on the other hand, it refers to the German Nazi fascist regime that invaded France; infectious diseases force humans to block each other and doubt each other, just like The fascist regime also made people who were originally free suspicious of each other, and their movements were restricted and blocked. The novel uses the story of a city beset by disease to express a vision of resistance that transcends absurdity: the possibility of unity in the fight against evil, and the power of friendship and community. I resist, therefore we exist.
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