LITERATURE QUESTIONS
EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE
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Guilt
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Religious devotion
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Duty to his fellow man
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Curiosity
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Detailed explanation-1: -He was driven by a sense of curiousity.
Detailed explanation-2: -The fundamental task of A Journal of the Plague Year is to help readers picture something at once too large and too small to see: an infectious disease. We cannot directly “see” the enormous scale of an epidemic, any more than we can see something as small as a microbe.
Detailed explanation-3: -The narrator is a Christian, upper-class man who could afford to flee London with his brother but chooses not to because of his belief that God wants him to stay and will protect him. He wavers in this belief and occasionally views it as a folly as the plague reaches its height.
Detailed explanation-4: -This makes A Journal of the Plague Year, originally published in 1722, an imaginative reconstruction. Its shadowy narrator, known only as ‘H.F. ‘, seeks to record the terrifying progress of a disease that had no known cause and therefore no known cure.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Negative Effects of Superstition The narrator writes that, at the outset of the plague, superstition is at an all-time high. He notes that impending death causes people to turn to oracles, astrologers, and dream-interpreters for news of their fate.