Examples Of Allegory Of War In The Plague
Written by Albert Camus, The Plague is an allegory of war because people begin to distrust others, the citizens suffer from the separation of their loved ones, people are all equal in the plague, and the death of victims increases dramatically. First of all, the book is an allegory of war because people cannot trust others when the plague is spread, no matter how close they are. It is “common knowledge” that people cannot believe in their neighbors, as “he may pass the disease to you without your knowing it, and take advantage of a moment of inadvertence on your part to infect you” (199). People begin to suspect everyone around them, even though they are familiar with those people. The distrust among all the citizens in Oran break their relationships
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When the town first becomes isolated, people who are apart from their lovers “had a vivid recollection of the absent ones and butterfly felt their loss”. However, as time passes, those people “had trouble in picturing what he or she might be doing”. Later, they hardly remember the things about their past, as “they no longer saw it in memory’s mirror” (180). Because of the isolation, the lovers who are separated from each other slowly forget their lovers’ faces as well as the joyful memory that they used to have, thus, they are “wasting away emotionally as well as physically” (180). The pain caused by the isolation grows stronger as the time that they cannot see each other gets longer. This kind of missing caused by the separation of the loved ones is similar to that in the war. When the soldiers leave their homes for the battles, they will not see their loved ones for months or years. In that case, the relatives of the soldiers suffer the pain of slowly forgetting the time they have spent with those soldiers, but yet they keep missing them in their hearts. This kind of pain will become more serious if the war does not stop. Accordingly, The Plague is an allegory of war since people all suffer the pain of being separated from their loved
When the town first becomes isolated, people who are apart from their lovers “had a vivid recollection of the absent ones and butterfly felt their loss”. However, as time passes, those people “had trouble in picturing what he or she might be doing”. Later, they hardly remember the things about their past, as “they no longer saw it in memory’s mirror” (180). Because of the isolation, the lovers who are separated from each other slowly forget their lovers’ faces as well as the joyful memory that they used to have, thus, they are “wasting away emotionally as well as physically” (180). The pain caused by the isolation grows stronger as the time that they cannot see each other gets longer. This kind of missing caused by the separation of the loved ones is similar to that in the war. When the soldiers leave their homes for the battles, they will not see their loved ones for months or years. In that case, the relatives of the soldiers suffer the pain of slowly forgetting the time they have spent with those soldiers, but yet they keep missing them in their hearts. This kind of pain will become more serious if the war does not stop. Accordingly, The Plague is an allegory of war since people all suffer the pain of being separated from their loved