Notes on Plague in albert camus

Natural disasters and man-made disasters are common, but when disasters happen to everyone, no one can believe that it will be a disaster. How many plagues and wars have been experienced in the world, and the number of them is equal. However, no matter the plague or the war, people are equally caught off guard.

Therefore, we must understand his hesitation and why he is anxious and confident at the same time. When war breaks out, people will say, "The war won't last long because it is stupid." There is no doubt that the war is indeed stupid, but stupidity does not prevent the war from continuing. If a man doesn't think for himself, he will find that stupid things may persist all the time. In this respect, our compatriots, like others, think of themselves. In other words, they are all humanists: they don't believe in natural disasters. How can natural disasters compare with people! So everyone thinks that this disaster is not a reality, but a nightmare, which will soon pass. However, nightmares may not disappear. They happened one after another, but people died in the meantime, first of all humanists, because those people didn't take preventive measures. The mistakes of our compatriots are no more serious than those of others. They forget that people should be modest, that's all. They think they can cope with everything, which means that natural disasters are impossible. They continue to do business, prepare to travel and make comments. How can they think that there will be a plague to ruin their future, cancel their trip and stop their discussion? They think they are free, but no one can be free as long as disaster strikes.

This sudden, comprehensive, hopeless departure makes us feel at a loss, recalling that it is close at hand, but it seems that we are separated by a layer of voice and smile and can't extricate ourselves. In fact, we are suffering from double sufferings, first of all, our own sufferings, and then the sufferings of our imaginary distant relatives, sons, wives or lovers.

But everyone continues to put personal concerns first. No one really admitted that there had been an epidemic. Most people are very sensitive to anything that disturbs their habits and harms their interests. They are unhappy and angry about it, but these emotions are impossible to overcome the plague.

Evil in the world is almost always caused by ignorance. If people lack education, good intentions may cause damage like malice. There are more good people than bad people, but in fact this is not the point. There is a difference between ignorance and more ignorance, which is called moral or immoral. The most disgusting immorality is ignorance. Ignorant people think they know everything, so they think they have the right to kill people. Without foresight, there can be no true goodness and noble love.

They still have their own attitude towards misfortune and pain, but no one can feel the sharpest pain. In addition, for example, Dr. Rier thinks that the above situation is the real misfortune, and getting used to despair is worse than despair itself.

Before that, they had timidly avoided confusing their pain with collective misfortune, and now they accepted this confusion. Without memory and hope, they settled down in the moment. In fact, everything about them has become the present. It is necessary to mention that the plague took away everyone's ability to fall in love and even make friends. Because love needs some light in the future, but for us, there is only the present.

Everyone knows that this means giving up everything. They are purely private. At the beginning of the plague, they were always excited about some small things that they thought were important. They have never paid attention to others in their lives, so they have experienced personal life. Now, on the contrary, they only care about what others care about, and they just want what everyone thinks. In their view, even their love has only the most abstract side.

Some people may ask, what do these people who are blocked by mountains look like? Well, it's very simple. They are nothing alike. Or, if you like to say so, they are as ordinary as everyone else. They share the tranquility in the city and the unnecessary agitation in the city. They no longer have traces of critical consciousness, but at the same time they have won the appearance of calmness. You can see, for example, that the smartest of them pretend to be like everyone else, looking for reasons in newspapers or radio to believe that the plague is coming to an end; On the surface, they have illusory hopes, or when they see a reporter's idle and casually written comments, they feel unfounded fears. In other ways, they drink beer or take care of patients, do nothing or are exhausted, manage cards or listen to records. Everyone has it. It's even. In other words, they have no choice about anything. The plague obliterated people's value judgment. This can be seen from people's lifestyle: no one cares about the quality of clothes or food they buy. Everyone accepted everything.

In a word, they are gambling on luck, and luck does not belong to everyone.

Nothing in the world is worth giving up what you love for it. But I don't know why, I abandoned what I loved.

I can understand that. All this is disgusting, because it is beyond our capacity. But maybe we should love what we can't understand.

I also know that we must abide by the rules and never slack off, otherwise we may accidentally spit on other people's faces and spread the plague to others. Only bacteria are naturally formed. Other things, such as health, integrity and purity, can be said to be the result of will, which should never stop. Honest people, who rarely infect others with diseases, always try not to be distracted. It takes willpower and high concentration to never be distracted!

He knows what his mother is thinking, and now she feels sorry for him. He also knows that loving someone is nothing, or at least love can never have its own exact expression. So his mother and he can only help each other silently in the future. One day it will be her turn or his death, but neither of them can further pour out the love between mother and child before their death. Similarly, he once lived with Taru, but Taru died that night, and they didn't have time to really appreciate their friendship. As Taru himself said, he lost. But what about him, Leah? What did he win? He knows the plague and can recall it; He has felt friendship and can recall it; He is experiencing affection, and he can recall it in the future. He won it, that's all. There is nothing else. In the two kinds of gambling, plague and life, one can win knowledge and memory. Maybe this is what Taru calls "winning"!

But if "winning" means that you can understand and recall something, but at the same time you are deprived of what you want, how bitter this life should be! Taru must live like this. He has realized how boring life without fantasy is. Without hope, there is no peace. Taru does not admit that people have the right to judge people's death penalty, but he also knows that no one can not judge people's punishment, and even the victim may sometimes become an executioner, so he has been living in great pain and contradiction and never knows what hope is. Is it because of this that he seeks holiness and tries to get peace in serving others? In fact, Leah knows nothing about it, and it doesn't matter. The image of Tower Michael Loewe that will remain in his memory in the future will be the appearance of his hands clutching the steering wheel of the car that drove him, or his burly body is lying here motionless now. The passion of life and the image after death, this is understanding.

Lamber knew that he would immediately regain everything he had lost. This joy is too hot to taste.

To tell the truth, this rational effort didn't cost him anything. When he can't wait to talk directly to thousands of moaning plague patients, he will think that his pain is also the pain of others. In a world where he often suffers alone, this situation of sharing weal and woe is already great, so he immediately held back. Indeed, he should speak for everyone.

"Why not. He never talks nonsense. I like him anyway. But that's the truth. Others said,' that's a plague. We have experienced a plague.' An inch further, they will apply for the medal. But what is a plague? This is life, nothing more. "

People are always the same. But what remains unchanged is their energy and their innocence, and it is here that Ruier transcends all the pain and feels that she and they are soul mates. At this time, more and more loud and lasting cheers echoed in the city and reached the foot of the platform. The silver flowers in the air were colorful and ever-changing.

Almost all the evils in the world are caused by ignorance.

Without understanding, kindness can do as much harm as malice.

People can always try to turn a blind eye, blindfold and refuse to face it.

However, the obvious fact has its own great power, and eventually everything will go up in smoke.

Maybe one day, the plague will wake up its mice again, let them die in a happy city, let people suffer disasters again and learn lessons again.