The Portrayal of Government Control and Social Resistance in Depictions of Disease: A Comparative Analysis of Defoe’s “Journal of the Plague Year” and the Film “Outbreak”
Introduction For centuries, disease has been a “Specter” that has haunted human societies and defined the stories and attitudes of societies towards it. Since the immemorial period to sophisticated ages, infections of diseases and related other social dynamics like politics and economics have always somehow remote-controlled each other. Here, I shall discuss the diverse depictions ... Read More
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