Religion

I am going to have to agree with Lauren on the subject of religion in this specific part of the story. I find it strange that in a time like this, where 500 or more people are dying a week, families are separated, and people are confined to this one town with no foreseeable improvements in the near future, that the population of the town isn’t flocking to the explanations of religion. They simply go to the Week of the Prayer because “it can’t do any harm” (93). The priest’s accusations that the people have not satisfy God’s need for love and that is the reason for the Plague is the kind of reasoning that one would expect from the general body of the people. Though for some reason the people are not taking up these fanatic beliefs. The priest seems to be expressing the desperation that one would expect to see from the majority of people, especially when he begins to talk about how this has all been predetermined and that there is nothing anyone can do but accept their impending death. Ironically, not even the priest seems to be able to accept what he is saying and follows up by telling people to pray to God even though he believes that all this is predetermined. I believe the priest is a character that is suppose to represent the traditional reaction that people are tend to have in situations like this one.