Similarities Between The Plague And The Black Death

Is the historical Black Death similar, in any way, to Albert Camus’s The Plague? Like the hurricane that brings fear and panic along with its powerful winds that sweep out everything with it, the same happened both in real life and the fictional world. Despite the obvious differences between history and Camus’ fictional representation, the novel The Plague manages to accurately depict society’s reaction to the devastation of the plague, similar to the effects of the Black Death. Both Albert Camus’s The Plague and the Black Death, from the 14th century, were similar in this approach, by genesious way in which different churches manipulated this opportunity of the epidemic and the infestation of the disease. Considering how the medieval people

Later on within the book, the reader can notice that Albert Camus did not intend to show much of the people’s general panic. Camus portrayed Oran City’s citizens as if they really ignored the fact that there were rats dying on the streets. The narrator in the book discusses that although everyday there was a garbage man who always comes every day to collect the dead bodies of rats from the streets into a nearby landfill that noone observed anything, until one day, it was too much for the unknown narrator. The narrator later on reveals his identity to be Dr. Rieux and he was disgusted for simply looking at dead rat bodies found in the streets wherever he goes in Oran City, until one day, he became furious that he found the bodies of dead rats inside his hospital. He wanted to speak to the authorities about how they should do something to stop the uprising of their plague epidemic. The Prefect, one of the main authorities of Oran City, with his police authorities, has shut down the gates of Oran City until they clearly see a clear recession in this great plague. One of the characters in the book named Rambert tried to trick the Prefect into getting himself out of the city, although its gates were closed. Only the federal agencies did not listen to him whatsoever and

Many European courts and governments during the 14th century had collapsed at the beginning of the Great Famine and the outbreak of the Hundred Years’ War. Although these great events happened during the outbreak of the Black Death, they did not heavily affect on the population of Europe. For instance, the Great Famine of 1315, that had lasted only two years, had just killed a tenth of the population of Ypres (currently called Flanders) (maps.google.com). People in Halesowen (now currently called England) were dying and were scared that many of their relatives were dying. They were feeling very depressed as if it was the end of the world, because their population had greatly dropped by 15% during that period. Thankfully and, nonetheless, these wasted souls and bodies could never have recognized that there was a far worse event going to lurk on Europe’s entire horizon. This holocaust of extraordinary wrath was about to follow them, their children, and their lands. Outside, near the borders of Sicily and Constantinople was a great epidemic trying to lurk into Europe. It did reach there, and in a matter of only five years (from around 1347 to 1352), the population of Europe at that time had decreased from being larger than 83 million people to less than 8