Symbolism in camus the plague

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Camus believes there is no god, and essentially that human beings need to be responsible for their own lives, happiness, and decencyThrough the eyes of all of his characters, the author answers questions like: "Why be optimistic?", "Why be moral?", "Why live if we are just going to die?", and "Why hope?". Camus contends that there are human values that are good in themselves; it is just good to be moralIn this essay I plan to connect the characters, symbolism, and my personal feelings and values with this ideaSuch evidence as people being good to a neighbor in time of need or people volunteering to adopt a family for the holidays are many times based on a desire to simply do something good, not a necessarily a desire to please a god or receive a reward Finally, without a god (or even with a god for that matter) Camus says that we need to be responsible and create our own hopeBy looking carefully at the characters in the book, I plan to also show Camus' press for responsibility among the people