... heroes of The Plague, is a doctor. He is one of the first heroes that notice the spread of the plague: "inside the room a word was echoing still; the plague." (Camus 36) Doctor knows about the disease, but does not run away to escape it, he wants authorities to close the diminish the spread of it: "That being so, it has small importance whether you call it a plague or a some rare kind of fever. The important thing is to prevent its killing of half the population of this town." (Camus 44) Rieux stays, faces his fear of death, and stays altruistic to fill the duty of being a doctor. The doctor patiently fights the plague, but is often confused about his duty: he, as the doctor, is supposed to save people, but in the case of plague, he just has a chance to isolate them from the ...

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