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The Plauge (Dr. Rieux, preoccupied by his wife's impending trip to a…
The Plauge
Dr. Rieux, preoccupied by his wife's impending trip to a sanitarium, doesn't give a great deal of attention to the phenomenon at first
he newspapers clamor for the city government to address the problem. In response, the city arranges for the daily collection and cremation of the corpses.
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One of the chambermaids becomes sick with the strange illness, but the manager assures Tarrou that it probably isn't contagious. In the midst of these vignettes of daily life in Oran, Tarrou ponders philosophical matters such as how not to waste one's time.
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Dr. Rieux and his colleague, Castel, speculate that the disease is probably the bubonic plague
Grand is assigned the daily task of calculating the deaths. Accompanied by Cottard, he reports to Dr. Rieux that the number of deaths is on the rise. Afterwards, he bids the doctor and Cottard goodbye because he must attend to some mysterious, important activity.
He has a great deal of difficulty expressing himself because he has a fanatical need to find the "right words." Therefore, he has never written a letter of protest demanding that the promises made to him be kept. Dr. Rieux intuits that Grand is trying to write a book.
When he checks on Cottard, Cottard seems stricken with a strange paranoia. Rieux's asthma patient speculates that the disease is an outbreak of cholera, noting that people seem nervous and jittery. Finally, Dr. Rieux demands that the Prefect take real measures to address the rising epidemic.
When he checks on Cottard, Cottard seems stricken with a strange paranoia. Rieux's asthma patient speculates that the disease is an outbreak of cholera, noting that people seem nervous and jittery. Finally, Dr. Rieux demands that the Prefect take real measures to address the rising epidemic.
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Perhaps Dr. Rieux withholds his identity because he is concerned with maintaining his objective distance from the chronicle. Because he defines The Plague as a chronicle, one would expect a journalistic report of the facts.
No one wants to depart from his or her comfortable, isolated routine to deal with the problem.
Quick Takeaways: 1)Rats are the first to die on the plauge
2)Authorities respond to the plauge after a denial period
3) Raymond Rambert and other try to escape the city
4) How does Cottard accumulate the wealth-smuggles
5) Because of the plauge peo
Chapter 4-8. When Dr. Rieux urges the head of the medical association, Dr. Richard, to order any new cases of the disease into isolation wards, Dr. Richard insists that the Prefect must issue the order
Both of these "rational" responses are actually completely irrational. Hunger does not explain the blood spurting from the rats' muzzles. M. Michel's explanation doesn't explain why there are hundreds of death rats in buildings all over the city.
Rieux's description of Oran's character implies that Oran's citizens are not living their lives to the fullest. Their narrow, circumscribed routines and their indifference prevents them from making the most of their finite existence--they are wasting their time. Tarrou's concern about wasting time echoes Rieux's own frustration with the Oran's time wasting tactics in response to the swarm of rats and later with the rising epidemic.
Dr. Rieux lances the swellings on the necks, armpits, and groins of the victims of the disease, releasing a thick, bloody pus. Most of the cases are fatal. The newspapers that made such a fuss over the rats are strangely silent regarding the disease.
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