BIOL 118 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Daniel Defoe, Pope Francis, Black Death

• School: University of San Diego
• Department: Biology Courses
• Course: BIOL 118
• Professor: Terry Bird

Document Summary

Guest speaker day: dr. cynthia caywood (english professor) How plagues have been used as a subject and metaphor. A journal of the plague year by daniel defoe (1722) The masque of the red death by edgar ellen poe. Infected with black death (group of animals) 1957 swedish 7th seal 14th cent massive outbreak of bubonic plague. Numerous lists as best films ever made. The triumph of death by pieter bruegel the elder. World wide; deadly; spreading quickly words used to dehumanize jews (tactic) Gay plague (affecting drug users too; virus infected blood trans; aids) Use as metophor presents terrorism as dynamic & shifting phenomenon. Rejection of word of plague temporaneous as change in seeing epidemic . One of the most famous uses of plagues in literature. During plague outbreak, city defined by districts, ill stays in house & cared for & door marked w/ red cross . Period engraving (1665) of london"s burial carts.