The Plague Mortality Quotes Page 6
Citations follow this format: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph). We used Stuart Gilbert's translation.
| Quote #16 Moreover, the epidemic seemed to be on the wane; on some days only ten or so deaths were notified. Then, all of a sudden, the figure shot up again, vertically. On the day when the death-roll touched thirty, Dr. Rieux read an official telegram that the Prefect had just handed him, remarking: "So they’ve got alarmed at last." The telegram ran: Proclaim a state of plague stop close the town. (1.8.99) |
Again we see this common theme of brief recession followed by resurgence. The plague – and the death it causes – follow no reasonable or logical path.
| Quote #17 From now on, it can be said that plague was the concern of all of us. (2.1.1) |
This drives home the point that every man is made equal by death.
| Quote #18 But the gaunt, idle cranes on the wharves, rip—carts lying on their sides, neglected heaps of sacks and barrels—all testified that commerce, too, had died of plague. (2.2.1) |
Death comes in many forms and affects both people and their constructs.
