The document discusses various reactions to "The Plague" by Albert Camus. It describes the themes in Camus' novel like death, sickness, and despair. It also summarizes some key events and reactions, including a priest claiming the plague was divine punishment, a character's frustration with being trapped in the city, and residents' complaints and attempts to escape from the quarantined city as well as their feelings of helplessness and loss of future without communication to the outside world.
7. Attempts of Rambert and others to be
smuggled out of the city
The constant complaints to the
Prefecture and Government
8. • A deep longing for loved ones
• Communications Cut-off
• Exiled from everything
• Helpless
• To believe there is no future
• Idle minds
• (empty bodies/spiritless)