“But when the physicians assured us that the danger was as well from the sound (that is, the seemingly sound) as the sick, and that those people who thought themselves entirely free were oftentimes the most fatal, and that it came to be generally understood that people were sensible of it, and of the reason of it; then, I say, they began to be jealous of everybody, and a vast number of people locked themselves up, so as not to come abroad into any company at all, nor suffer any that had been abroad in promiscuous company to come into their houses, or near them—at least not so near them as to be within the reach of their breath or of any smell from them; and when they were obliged to converse at a distance with strangers, they would always have preservatives in their mouths and about their clothes to repel and keep off the infection.
After all, H.F.'s narrative stands as a much more informative and helpful text than bills of mortality or pamphlets on surviving the plague....they rather went to the Grave by Thousands than into the Fields in Mobs by Thousands...It is clear that plague brings disorder.
“Some Endeavors were used to suppress the Printing of such Books as terrify’d the People, and to frighten the dispersers of them, some of whom were taken up, but nothing was done in it, as I am inform’d; The Government being unwilling to exasperate the People, who were, as I may say, all out of their Wits already.” “But it was impossible to make any impression upon the middling people and the working labouring … “Amulets,39 and I know not what Preparations, to fortify the Body with them against the Plague; as if the Plague was not the Hand of God,” Reread lines 23-49. is the narrator compassionate, aggressive or some combination of these?
GradeSaver, 28 October 2012 Web. Constructing Authenticity; Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year: An Examination of the Effects of Apocalyptic Disease on Humanity
These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe.A Journal of the Plague Year e-text contains the full text of A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe.Copyright © 1999 - 2020 GradeSaver LLC. He is shocked that they are so bold in their words concerning God, and is somewhat unsurprised when every last one of them falls prey to the plague. A religious man himself and quite prone to feelings of guilt and uncertainty, H.F. lauds the embrace of religion he sees in many of his fellow denizens.
(It’s just a headache. Bring out your dead! “That all plays, bear baitings, 88 games, singing of ballads, buckler play, 89 or such like causes of assemblies of people, be utterly prohibited, and the parties offending severely punished by every alderman in his ward.” He rejects rumors of misconduct and mob-like behavior on the part of Londoners, and commends city officials for their swiftness in burying the dead, discernible humility, and willingness to keep supplies of food high for the poor and hungry citizens.
Despite all of these examples of disorder, however, what is Similar to the above quote, Defoe desires to present a picture of London during the plague that is characterized by endurance, resilience, morality, and rationality.
Not affiliated with Harvard College. Of the Plague. “when, indeed, one would have thought the very city itself was running out of the gates, and that there would be nobody left behind,—you may be sure from that hour all trade, except such as related to immediate subsistence, was, as it were, at a full stop.”
155” It must be acknowledged that when people began to use these cautions they were less exposed to danger, and the infection did not break into such houses so furiously as it did into others before; and thousands of families were preserved (speaking with due reserve to the direction of Divine Providence) by that means.”
Londoners went about their business,...Please provide the lines (type them out) as I do not have a copy with me. “[T]hese Disappointments must have something in them extraordinary; and I ought to consider whether it did not evidently point out, or intimate to me, that it was the Will of Heaven I should not go.” (Pages 4-24, Page 12) All in all, London during the plague of 1665 is meant to be an example to cities worldwide of how to conduct itself during a time of immense tribulation. “We had at this time a great many frightful stories told us of nurses and watchmen who looked after the dying people (that is to say, hired nurses, who attended infected people), using them barbarously, starving them, smothering them, or by other wicked means hastening their end, that is to say, murdering of them.” 1. “Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found upon examination The latter has the largest congregation.” All master workmen in manufactures, especially such as belonged to ornament and the less necessary parts of the people's dress, clothes, and furniture for houses; such as ribbon-weavers and other weavers, gold and silver lacemakers, and gold and silver wire-drawers, seamstresses, milliners, shoemakers, hatmakers, and glovemakers, also upholsterers, joiners, cabinet-makers, looking-glass-makers, and innumerable trades which depend upon such as these,—I say, the master workmen in such stopped their work, dismissed their journeymen and workmen and all their dependents.” Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of
Instead, as H.F. laments, they gave their money to quack doctors and fortunetellers and suppressed rational thought for a time.Many Consciences were awakened; many hard Hearts melted into Tears; many a penitent Confession was made of Crimes long concealed...One of the more positive results of the plague returning to London was that it made many people aware of their shortcomings and sins. The people looked anxiously to the bills of mortality to confirm their suspicions, and also began to turn to alternative forms of divining whether or not the plague was imminent.
This was, as H.F. believed, an appropriate response to the plague. I think they talked of forty thousand dogs and five times as many cats; few houses being without a cat, some having several, sometimes five or six in a house.” “This is a world of corpses strewn in streets and pits, yet in the deadcart itself a drunken piper wakes up to cry, ‘But I an’t dead tho’, am I?’ (p. 89).”
Or thus, 'Why, what must I do?
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