"The Plague" is a fable novel that describes a plague disaster that occurred in a small town called Oran in North Africa, and the process of people's resistance to the plague.
Camus uses a third-person perspective throughout the novel to depict various social pictures of life and death struggles during the epidemic. He ends the novel with a short-lived victory, clarifying that the pathological social phenomenon has led to the long-term presence of plague in human life. The exclamation issued by the work is not an accusation but a beautiful expectation, a metaphor for people's choices and struggles in the face of absurd situations. Camus deeply hopes that social viruses like the plague can disappear forever, freeing mankind from these senseless disasters.
True redemption is not victory after a fight, but the ability to find the strength to live and peace of mind in suffering.
