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times—had ceased, was but one vast rumor of low voices and incessant footfalls, the drumming of innumerable soles timed to the eerie whistling of the plague in the sultry air above, the sound of a huge concourse of people marking time, a never ending, stifling drone that, gradually swelling, filled the town from end to end, and evening after evening gave its truest, mournfulest expression to the blind endurance that had ousted love from all our hearts 去书内
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    Camus s choice of the plague image is not accidental. This terrible incarnation of the evil force is almost a living and powerful entity in the novel. Camus needs to use plague as a natural disaster to allege the reason. Such disasters seem to have been deliberately drawn out of the social sphere. There is no class contradiction that divides the society, and there is no evil specific culprit, but all people are unfortunate and helpless, facing a mysterious and hostile world of natural forces. In this world, the most noble people, even with unimaginable power, can only limit the scope of disaster, not cure it.Even though plague can be regarded as a symbol and epitome of disaster, it was a symbol of fascist autocracy and war at that time. In Camus s view, the world in which fascism is allowed to succeed for a while is even more absurd.

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