The pest albert camus5/19/2023 ![]() During the chronicle his goal was to become, although he was an atheist, a saint. He sought inner peace by becoming his own moral sentry so as not to bring harm to others. Tarrou, however, dies with a strangely smiling courage, still a strongly ironic man. Grand, Rambert, and Paneloux are all different men afterward. He and Rieux do not essentially change during the siege. Like Camus, he is a chain smoker and greatly enjoys swimming in the sea, also a pleasure of Rieux's. So serious about life, he is not middle-aged, but a stocky young fellow with a deeply furrowed face. In Oran, he keeps notebooks about ironic curiosities which he observes. He refuses to be a party to it and thus is rather aloof. To Tarrou, murder is the supreme evil in the world. ![]() ![]() He rejects rationalizations that include frequent execution of men in the name of justice. ![]() Deeply convinced that his lawyer-father was wrong to demand the death sentence for a criminal, and later disillusioned when his revolutionary party guns down former heads of state, Tarrou believes man is too frequently a party to murder. A wanderer who comes innocuously to Oran, he stays to help Rieux battle the plague and becomes its last victim. ![]()
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