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They Were All Doomed in
The Plague
Oran was a large French port where the unthinkable happened, it was place filled with people that thought nothing would happen to them. Then there were those that tried to help everyone else see what they were up against. The novel The Plague, written by Albert Camus, shows a city of people turn from an ordinary everyday city, to a place where everyone was fearful of a plague that struck with extreme devastation. The people thought they could get a free ride out and become, what they thought, a worshipper to god. Then the others based of doctors and colleagues tries to find a way to stop the plague knowing what it could do. The Plague shows how brutal natural-fate can be, and what it can do to the human's intellect.
"The sentence of death is the central theme of [Camus'] work. It matters little here wither it is nature, fate, justice, or human cruelty which pronounces the sentence" (Bespaloff 140). Then is true in The Plague, the main......

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