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Tarrou: The Plague's Only Hero
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In "The Plague", Albert Camus pits humanity against an unstoppable
force of nature: the bubonic plague. He creates a variety of characters
who all deal with the plague in their own way, but only Tarrou acts
heroically. Rieux comes close to a hero, but he fights the plague because
it's expected o ....
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.... symbolically cleansed in the river, and both
record the events of Oran. Brée thinks that for Rieux "morality is first
of all a question of curing people (150)." Rieux fights the plague only
because he sees it as his duty, and one has to wonder if he would have done
anything if he wasn't a doctor. He views the plague as "a never-ending
defeat." Tarrou acts for a more noble purpose: to gain sainthood.
(Paneloux might also be considered a hero for this reason, but he doesn't
fight the plague a.... |
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