The Plague

London and the Plague Around the time of 1665 the plague took over London. An atmosphere of anxiety, desperation and fear imbued the London streets. The constant fear of being infected led many wealthy people to flee the city. It also pushed officials to enact new regulations. Reading fictional accounts like Daniel Defoe’s “A Journal of the Plague Year” allows readers to understand the altered city of London. The plague caused London’s culture to change. The Lord Mayor and…

even the Great Plague was like experience. And while these events can be found in history books, Samuel Pepys’ diary brings something to the table that a group of…

Some of the effects of mediaeval Europe on the black plague where change in the social structure, economy, religion and the country. The black plague killed about 60 percent of the population in mediaeval Europe. The black plague affected the way people thought and spend their money. One of the big problems during the black plague was inflation. For example in document 6 it stated the following, “some felt they should obey the maxim, ‘Eat, drink and be marry, for tomorrow you may die.”…

"By the end of August 1518, nearly 400 people had experienced the madness."(Waller, n.p.) John Waller, a leading expert on the dancing plague of 1518, had this to say on the strange occurrences in a small, French town during 1518(Waller, n.p.). There is still much debate as to what caused the dancing plague to occur in 1518. Some people believe it was caused by the ingestion of ergot by the local people of Strasbourg, France(Israel, n.p). Others believe it was caused by a mass hysteria that…

Throughout history, there are many people who tried to understand what caused the rapid spread of the Black Plague. It 1348, the Black Plague hit Western Europe and spread too many other places because people tried to escape the towns that were infected; these people brought the diseases with them. As people fled from town to town, the transmission of this disease spread from person to person. For three days, the young, the old, the poor and the rich were suffering. No one was safe. Just like in…

During the 15th, 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries the spread of the plague struck society with a variety of responses throughout Europe. First, fear caused the fabric of society to crumble apart with the upper, middle, and lower classes to leave behind their regular activities and the rich to flee towards safety. Second, people of all classes began moving toward religion and the church as salvation from the plague. Third, theologians and physicians strived to find the causes of this wretched…

In the year 1347, the Black Death took the world by surprise. It is believed that the plague spread to Europe when a ship carrying men infected with the plague took port in the city of Messina and unknowingly infected the townspeople. The plague is a bacterium called Yersinia that is carried by animals and may be transmitted from animal to human through flea bites. The Plague took on three forms as it spread throughout Eurasia and the rest of the world. These forms include: Bubonic, Pneumonic,…

could detect the man’s stench. He smelled like the fermented slop that they fed to pigs on the ranch. It was obvious that the plague had gotten this man. The man hovered in the doorway of the bathroom, looking first at Mac…

In our class discussion about The Plague we focused on how Camus uses easy to overlook details to make one reexamine their own beliefs. The group began by asking us if the community came together or fell apart. In this discussion we came to the conclusion that while the people came together as one community suffering under the plague, civilization fell. Through this ironic scenario, he offers to the reader an idea that civilization is not needed and that solely with community humans can help one…

helps out with Cinders mechanic booth at the market. The royal prince comes and asks her to fix his royal andriod. At home Cinder lives with her step-mother and two sisters, Poeny and Pearl. Cinder is signed up for plague research after her beloved sisters Poeny passes away from the plague outbreak. Cinder learns with the help of the head doctor, Dr. Erland of the cyborg draft, that she is Lunar, or the people from the moon. Cinder fixes Prince Kai’s android. The King (Kai’s…