"The Handmaid's Tale" and "The Plague"

Watching this play from the beginning to the end, I don’t know how to evaluate it. I feel that in addition to being depressed or depressed, there will be a sense of suffocation when it is strong, and I can deeply feel the sense of despair, until I see Camus in " A passage from "The Plague". He wrote: "Things that threaten joy are always there, because these happy people can't see things, but he knows them at a glance. He knows that people can see these words in books: Yersinia pestis will never die, it can Sleeping in furniture and clothes for decades, it can wait patiently in rooms, cellars, suitcases, handkerchiefs, and waste paper piles. Maybe one day, people will suffer bad luck again, or the last lesson will come again. The rat group that started it drives them to choose a happy city as their burial place." Camus metaphors fascism as a plague. Just as the plague bacillus does not live or die, fascism always exists, either happening or dormant, so It may make a comeback in any era, Gilead is an example. It is like the spread of the plague. At first it seemed that there were only a few, but "suddenly" the plague began to cover everyone. At the beginning of the play, people's rights were damaged little by little. "Suddenly" people were already living in a new Country-Gilead.

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