Life has many various beauties that are charming and irresistible, but it also has its devastating disadvantages. Certain powerful drawbacks can defeat the beauty and happiness of life. As life becomes increasingly difficult, it becomes one’s own enemy. Likewise, in The Plague, by Albert Camus, the plague prevents the people of Oran from practicing their daily routines. Therefore, Camus develops the plague as an antagonist as it deprives the townspeople of the simple pleasures and the beauty of life.
Camus utilizes personification to show how the plague is an enemy of Oran and its people. Camus compares the condition of Oran before the plague and its deterioration after the plague invaded the town. “It was plain to see that spring had spent …show more content…
Camus personifies the spring by describing how it was helping flowers bloom prior to the plague. Yet, he also compares how this optimistic spring is “being crushed” by the attack of the plague and its heat. Camus gives spring the ability to bring joy to the town, but also describes the plague’s power that ends this joy. The plague destroys all signs of positivity reflecting the state of Oran and its people. As a result, the townspeople are broken down from the effect of the plague on them and the town. This personification demonstrates the power of the plague and its heat and their capability of crushing and devastating a whole town just by their presence. Nevertheless, the plague continues to dominate the lives of the townspeople. “Plague had killed all colors, vetoed pleasure” (113). Once again, Camus personifies the plague by describing it with the ability to be devastatingly powerful. The plague has prevented the townspeople from enjoying their freedom and placed them in a prison full of disease and psychological torment. The plague, being personified with power, overcomes …show more content…
Camus utilizes tone to further clarify the effects of the plague on the townspeople. “For our fellow citizens that summer sky, and the streets thick with dust, gray as their present lives, had the same ominous import as the hundred deaths now weighing daily on the town” (113). Camus’ usage of “thick with dust,” “gray as their present lives,” and “hundred deaths now weighing” creates a gloomy and dark scenery stemming from the plague and its negative outcome on the townspeople. The plague caused the people to worry about death, their loved ones, and clouded any traces of the future. Camus uses a simile comparing the color gray with their lives, creating a gloomy and dark tone. This quote demonstrates how the plague takes the “summer sky” and turns it into a burden about death. This deprives the people from enjoying the simple “summer sky” and the beauty of the streets. Camus further develops the tone as he compares the previous summers to life with the plague. “That incessant sunlight and those bright hours associated with siesta or with holidays no longer invited, as in the past, to frolics and flirtation on the beaches. Now they rang hollow in the silence of the closed town, they had lost the golden spell of happier summers” (113). Camus uses “rang hollow,” “silence,” “closed town,” and “lost” to develop a dark and gloomy tone to help the reader think of an abandoned
Camus utilizes personification to show how the plague is an enemy of Oran and its people. Camus compares the condition of Oran before the plague and its deterioration after the plague invaded the town. “It was plain to see that spring had spent …show more content…
Camus personifies the spring by describing how it was helping flowers bloom prior to the plague. Yet, he also compares how this optimistic spring is “being crushed” by the attack of the plague and its heat. Camus gives spring the ability to bring joy to the town, but also describes the plague’s power that ends this joy. The plague destroys all signs of positivity reflecting the state of Oran and its people. As a result, the townspeople are broken down from the effect of the plague on them and the town. This personification demonstrates the power of the plague and its heat and their capability of crushing and devastating a whole town just by their presence. Nevertheless, the plague continues to dominate the lives of the townspeople. “Plague had killed all colors, vetoed pleasure” (113). Once again, Camus personifies the plague by describing it with the ability to be devastatingly powerful. The plague has prevented the townspeople from enjoying their freedom and placed them in a prison full of disease and psychological torment. The plague, being personified with power, overcomes …show more content…
Camus utilizes tone to further clarify the effects of the plague on the townspeople. “For our fellow citizens that summer sky, and the streets thick with dust, gray as their present lives, had the same ominous import as the hundred deaths now weighing daily on the town” (113). Camus’ usage of “thick with dust,” “gray as their present lives,” and “hundred deaths now weighing” creates a gloomy and dark scenery stemming from the plague and its negative outcome on the townspeople. The plague caused the people to worry about death, their loved ones, and clouded any traces of the future. Camus uses a simile comparing the color gray with their lives, creating a gloomy and dark tone. This quote demonstrates how the plague takes the “summer sky” and turns it into a burden about death. This deprives the people from enjoying the simple “summer sky” and the beauty of the streets. Camus further develops the tone as he compares the previous summers to life with the plague. “That incessant sunlight and those bright hours associated with siesta or with holidays no longer invited, as in the past, to frolics and flirtation on the beaches. Now they rang hollow in the silence of the closed town, they had lost the golden spell of happier summers” (113). Camus uses “rang hollow,” “silence,” “closed town,” and “lost” to develop a dark and gloomy tone to help the reader think of an abandoned