The plague is about individual and collective courage, commitment to society, small acts of generosity and a lot of cowardice. It demonstrates people's goodness and capacity of mutual aid. It’s also a story about love and happiness as much as it is of separation, isolation and sadness. (Warner, par.2) This tale is an allegory of epidemic illness that can lead to the destruction of humanity. The author used this allegory to refer to the Nazi occupation of France during the Second World War. The plague is a severe illness that possesses the ability to completely eradicate the human race, similarly to the Nazis who have tried killing all Jews and some minority groups. In both cases the human race suffered greatly. (Warner, par.1)
Camus used an allegory of war and epidemic to bring up a moral message about the possible dangers of tyranny for humanity to his audience. Judt the author of the
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2) Camus believes in mutual connection and mutual aid, in the tale he encourages the citizens to help out each other, forget their past routinely and selfish life and help to sanitize the town and help save themselves all together. He accentuates on the necessity to communicate with one another and understand each other to be able to survive. The plague goes deep into many themes but surely one the most obvious ones is mutual pain, the whole town is locked down, in quarantine and isolated from their families and loved one. If the town’s people don’t decide to act and continue living in a passive manner that’s when the tyrant, which is a metaphor for diseases, will be able to