The Revolt against Absurdity: The Disease Writing of The Plague
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The Plague; Albert Camus; disease; absurdity and revolt; rebel.Abstract
The Plague is one of the outstanding masterpieces of French existentialist writer Albert Camus. The novel depicts the whole process from the beginning to the end of the great disaster of the plague, and shows the psychological transformation of people who are not related to each other under the plague, and the people change from acting individually to fighting against the disease as a collective. At the same time, the novel also shows the different attitudes of different people towards the plague and the emotions between people under the plague, but also tragically reveals the cruelty and ruthlessness of the epidemic. This paper will reveal people’s resistance to the great dystopia of the bubonic plague from three aspects, i.e. the dystopian signs and metaphors of the disease under the bubonic plague, the dystopian situation under the bubonic plague, and the resistance and struggle under the bubonic plague.
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