![]() ![]() ![]() Raymond Rambert, a foreign journalist, tries to escape Oran and rejoin his wife in Paris, but he is held up by the bureaucracy and the unreliability of the criminal underground. Father Paneloux, a Jesuit priest, delivers a sermon declaring that the plague is a divine punishment for Oran’s sins. The townspeople react to their sudden isolation with feelings of exile and longing for absent loved ones, with each individual assuming that their suffering is unique. Finally they close the gates and quarantine Oran. They urge the government to take action, but the authorities drag their feet until the death toll rises so high that the plague is impossible to deny. Castel believe the disease is bubonic plague. Rieux’s office building, comes down with a strange fever and dies. Soon after the rat epidemic disappears, M. The public grows panicked, and the government finally arranges a daily cremation of rat bodies. Rieux notices the sudden appearance of dying rats around town, and soon thousands of rats are coming out into the open to die. ![]() The first-person narrator is unnamed but mostly follows Dr. The Plague concerns an outbreak of bubonic plague in the French-Algerian port city of Oran, sometime in the 1940s. ![]()
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