Essay Archive - Tarrou: The Plague's Only Hero
Tarrou: The Plague's Only Hero
In "The Plague", Albert Camus pits humanity against an unstoppable
force of nature: the bubonic plague. He creates a variety of characters
who all deal with the plague in their own way, but only Tarrou acts
heroically. Rieux comes close to a hero, but he fights the plague because
it's expected of him and shows indifference at the end of the book.
Besides Rieux and Tarrou, none of the other characters show any heroism or
resistance to the plague, except the sanitation squad under Tarrou.
Through Tarrou al....
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