The plague, written by Albert Camus, the representative of existential philosophy; It was written in response to the French invading Algeria. The author, who has a humanist view; He identified the harm of humanity for the sake of purposes with a kind of plague epidemic. Although the rat deaths that started in the city did not attract anyone's attention at first, the increasing and ubiquitous dead rats worried people. Those who thought that precautions should be taken in this regard were right when people started to get sick. As the losses took place, everyone was in an atmosphere of panic. The protagonist of the book, Dr. After the death of Rieux's apartment worker, he realized how fast this epidemic spread and started to work with the awareness that if a solution is not found in a short time, it will turn into a disaster. Increasing deaths, quarantines, crowds in the hospital, and the tiredness of the doctors became unbearable. Although the priest of the cathedral, Paneloux, says that you pay the price of your sins to the people who fill the cathedral; Dr. Rieux knew from the beginning that this epidemic had nothing to do with divine justice, and wanted to prevent the epidemic, which turned into a crisis, from causing further harm to people. Dr. Rieux's last hope was the serum developed by Castel. Castel set to work on anti-epidemic serum trials. Meanwhile, deaths increased in the city, pits dug because the graves were insufficient, dead bodies poured with lime on them, corpses thrown into the water, patients fighting for treatment at the hospital, quarantine, and the curfew in the city continued. The serum was tested on a child and it was noticed that there was a regression in the course of the disease. In the epidemic; The boy on whom the serum was tried, Dr. Rieux's wife, teammate Tarrau, and many others died. In the face of these deaths, the severity of people gradually getting used to this situation and becoming numb enough to see it as normal is explained in detail. Dr. Rieux's war against the plague and illiteracy progressed, and live rats began to appear in the city again, thus opening the city's gates wide open.

VebaAlbert Camus · Can Yayınları · 202020bin okunma

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