The ideological absurd in the "La Peste" and Existentialism
Albert Camus is a famous French writer, in 1947, he published his work La Peste which was developed during World War II, this work has several aspects that are indispensable for the author’s ideology in this case we will analyze the theme of the absurdity in the Ideological aspect of the characters presented in it: Rieux, Tarrou and Paneloux, main and secondary characters of the work but shows the positions of an existentialist crisis.
First, the atmosphere and time in which the characters unfold, the protagonist Rieux is a great doctor from Oran is present since the beginning of the plague; Tarrou is a city visitor who has been in it for a while, but he considers it as a stranger; And finally, Paneloux, the father of the city, who for his vocation knows the city very well. According to this, it can be said that these characters have different very notorious perspectives in terms of plague, until this point the theme of the absurd must be analyzed as one of the media in which the author expresses his own ideology and confronts it with others During the presentation of the characters.
The context of the absurd that the author has uses as a metaphor and together with other aspects such as humanism, heroism and religion make known the negative reality of the world and how this through time and misfortunes that humanity has passed It is questionable and even the existence of a god.
In the case of Father Paneloux due to his vocation it is remarkable and obvious that his ideology and way of life belong to God his unconditional faith make him strong, but in turn they make him respectable to people, in terms of death and The misfortunes of the people their reasoning and attitudes are in simple generalities of the "sinners" and their punishments; However, he relieves the injustice of the innocents against the plague, the experience gained does not make him lose faith of him and thus beginning a new facet of consciousness and value against misfortune lived. So this character demonstrates his unconditional faith until death was participating in his total delivery of physical, thought and word despite the stumbling blocks in responses.
The doctor. Rieux is the opposite of this as for his faith more the delivery and dedication of him to his beliefs can be compared and say that they are equal. His beliefs were not based on a God but on action and humanism in the world to turn it into a better growing personally word, however, his ideology was not concrete this was only the present but not a future his desino seemed marked , but neither he knew that he was looking for this way he can believe this character as an atheist, despite his belief in science in medicine and the humanist makes him materialistic.
Jean Tarrou is the character in which the reader relates him to his author, due to the future he seeks the answer he seeks and tranquility without a God that is to say that He practices existentialism.
But the absurd as mentioned in the beginning is taken as a metaphor through the people affected by the plague and questioning of the characters between ideologies and attitudes the first beliefs in God: Paneloux a faithful believer towards God, Rieux and Tarrou actors of the end of the plague do not expect of a God, which helps Rieux’s vocation be fruitful in the fragment in which name of religion, conformism and wait for "miracles" Nobody’s effort, thus taking action and at the exit of their comfort zone for the help of the sick.
This part can be taken as existentialist and not as an absurdity, however, existentialism uses absurd to be able to explain in second point we have the plague as a punishment mentioned by Paneloux towards those "sinful" people the death of a child Othon makes it reflect Together with his work that until that moment he has made reflection on how to measure his words and have mercies of the others who suffered at that time Rieux and Tarroux lived from the beginning the suffering of pain and anguish of the people after the devastating plague; In this the absurd is present, however in the population the absurd is more noticeable while some lived from party to party and they would profit from them. Others together with their family lived every second of the plague.
In this case, in the book La Peste, existentialism and absurdity go from hand and explain one to the other; In the content of the work, it is presented through contrasts positions and contradictions of an issue around the humanism that the author expresses, it is also worth mentioning that his metaphorical representation teaches us negative characteristics of the people in the face of catastrophes, advances and discoveries their affected as in The world reality is present in the interests of each one, however, the absurd is present in everything, with the minimum questioning which the author raises with respect to this essay, it is worth mentioning that for his explanation a small structure has been taken of the work in relation to contrast and explanation through this technique the use of the absurdity.
In conclusion, the author uses contradictory realistic aspects that, with the passing of the work, become logical and to some extent somewhat subjective due to the expansion of his ideology and his vision towards the world of other perspectives in question to the absurdity from the beginning Until the end of their characters are marked by this detail after not only the questioning of the world but also of nature itself.
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