![]() ![]() Moreover, there are many messages that the novel conveys and several lessons could be derived out of them. ![]() In a way, the novel is a blueprint for all of us to deal with the coronavirus. Reading the novel, it seems as if Camus was predicting the future and foretelling what all wrongs the government, newspapers, media, and the society could commit as a whole. ![]() The disease spreads within no time and claims many lives. The same situation arises in the novel as well when the city of Oran is affected by the bubonic plague. The disease has claimed over a million lives worldwide and has led to people losing their loved ones. The year 2020 brought along with it a deadly pandemic, largely known as coronavirus or COVID 19. ![]() Oran and many surrounding areas were struck by disease several times before Camus published his novel. As his source material, Camus used the cholera epidemic that killed a large proportion of Oran's population in 1849 but situated the novel in the 1940s. As the name suggests, the novel tells the story of a plague sweeping the French Algerian city of Oran. In the year 1947, French author and philosopher, Albert Camus published his novel ‘ The Plague’. ![]()
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