DenialThe city government did not want to believe that the sickness spreading through their town was the bubonic plague. They refused to belive it until the number of deaths proved that they needed to be quarintined.
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MortalityDeath is a big art of this book, as the main subject is the plague. Some see the plague as divine punishment or a way to profit, and others eventually give up hope and succumb to what seems inevitable.
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