In Albert Camus’ novel, The Plague, the author employs three key characters to represent the main views on science and religion in order to best convey his own philosophy. Father Paneloux and Tarrou represent the two extremist views on opposite sides of the spectrum. Paneloux is a man of religion, and he, therefore, does not concern himself with a scientific mindset but rather sets his thoughts on the idea of things above. Tarrou is the radical on the other end, he is heavily against the idea of an almighty deity, and focuses on the idea of the self and getting by in the world without leaving any negative mark on land or man. The last of these key characters is Rieux, the narrator, who most likely resembles Camus own philosophy. Rieux does not fully agree with either side in this argument, he is neither religious, nor atheistic, one could might call him agnostic but this would seem to be a mislead. Camus has no intent on discussing if God is real, he …show more content…
When a modernist would say planned, a postmodernist would say chance. Thus it could not be claimed entirely that Camus was a postmodernist because he would rather analyze both terms and the people that claim them as their own. Camus was, at his core, an absurdist. From his perspective he could see the possibility of a true meaning to life, but that this overall meaning was yet to be discovered. Because of this, Camus did not frown upon any attempt at understanding the world, but he did take every philosophy with a grain of salt. The one part of this novel that does fully side with postmodernism is its full critiquing of society, and government. Through analyzation, one can surmise that the rats in this novel represent a bigger and greater issue of racial tension between Algerians and French-Algerians in this time period. Also, Camus takes many shots against the inefficiency of the government to act against chaos in time to stop