The Plague | Essays and Criticism

  • The Character of Tarrou

    In this essay, Aubrey discusses the character of Tarrou in Camus’s story, highlighting Tarrou’s opposition to capital punishment and comparing this to Camus’s arguments in his essay “Reflections on the Guillotine.”

  • Moral Rorschachs

    In the following essay, Kirp, Koehler, and Rossi discuss The Plague and Orwell’s 1984 and how these works have helped shape the cultural landscape of the last half century.

  • From Oran to San Francisco: Shilts Appropriates Camus

    In the following essay, Kellman discusses the impact of The Plague in the 1980s with the widespread emergence of AIDS.