CRISIS ACROSS CULTURES: A STUDY ON THE DISRUPTION OF SOCIAL ORDER OVER CENTURIES BASED ON CAMUS'S THE PLAGUE AND COVID19

Abstract

Absurdism is a philosophical stance which alludes to the inner clash between the human journey to locate the inborn worth and the significance of life and the human powerlessness to discover any in a purposeless, meaningless or irrational universe, if because of humanly restricted limitations. The entire globe is currently caught under the clutches of Covid-19, a pandemic that had not been recently distinguished in people, and had been first identified in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China. Albert Camus, wrote in 1947, in his show-stopper The Plague, about the fatal bubonic Plague that unleashed devastation in the French Algerian port city of Oran, at some point during the 1940s. Adversities come like a Bolt of lightning out of nowhere and disrupt the very social fabric of our lives without warning. A perfect illustration of this is seen through the calamities caused by Covid19. The current study is evaluating the moral and social crisis and destruction this has been causing all over the world, the absurdity of human condition, and the existential question facing humanity, which can be viewed as a re-reading of The Plague based on Covid19.