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Paneloux is at pains to emphasize that God did not will the calamity: " He looked on the evil-doing in the town with compassion ; only when there was no other remedy did He turn His face away, in order to force people to face the truth about their life " In Paneloux's view, even the terrible suffering caused by the plague works ultimately for good.
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Towards the end of October, Castel's new anti-plague serum is tried for the first time, but it cannot save the life of Othon's young son, who suffers greatly, as Paneloux, Rieux, and Tarrou look on in horror.
A few days after the sermon, Paneloux is taken ill. His symptoms do not conform to those of the plague, but the disease still proves fatal.
* Father Paneloux: Father Paneloux is a learned, well-respected Jesuit priest.
But Paneloux also claims that God is present to offer succor and hope.
Paneloux joins the team of volunteer workers and preaches another sermon saying that the death of the innocent child is a test of faith.
A few days after preaching this sermon, Paneloux is taken ill.
In contrast to the humanist beliefs of Rieux, Rambert, and Tarrou, the religious perspective is given in the sermons of the stern Jesuit priest, Father Paneloux.
While the other main characters believe there is no rational explanation for the outbreak of plague, Paneloux believes there is.
Paneloux may argue that the plague is a punishment for sin, but how does he reconcile that doctrine with the death of a child?
The child in question is Jacques Othon, and Paneloux, along with Rieux and Tarrou, witnesses his horrible death.
Paneloux is moved with compassion for the child, and he takes up the question of innocent suffering in his second sermon.
He argues that because a child's suffering is so horrible and cannot easily be ex-plained, it forces people into a crucial test of faith: either we must believe everything or we must deny everything, and who, Paneloux asks, could bear to do the latter?
The criticism of Paneloux, is that he, unlike Tarrou, has lost his faith in humanity.
Paneloux and at
During the first stage of the plague outbreak, Paneloux preaches a sermon at the cathedral.
Later, Paneloux attends at the bedside of Othon's stricken son and prays that the boy may be spared.
Paneloux and God
Another character, Father Paneloux, uses the plague as an opportunity to advance his stature in the town by suggesting that the plague was an act of God punishing the citizens ' sinful nature.
After the boy's death, Paneloux tells Rieux that although the death of an innocent child in a world ruled by a loving God cannot be rationally explained, it should nonetheless be accepted.
He does not do it for any grand, religious purpose, like Paneloux ( Rieux does not believe in God ), or as part of a high-minded moral code, like Tarrou.
In his first sermon, given during the first month of the plague, Paneloux describes the epidemic as the " flail of God ," through which God separates the wheat from the chaff, the good from the evil.
Paneloux and calamity
Some were the equivalent of Paneloux and thought that France was to blame for the calamity that had befallen it.
Paneloux and with
Unable to reconcile his beliefs with the death of the child, Paneloux becomes sick and refuses to be treated.
Paneloux and by
The second sermon given by Paneloux, however, suggests that his faith has been shaken.
Paneloux and plague
Paneloux, who has joined the group of volunteers fighting the plague, gives a second sermon.
But we must still seek to do what good lies in our power ( as Paneloux himself does as one of the volunteers who fights the plague ).
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But there is no use causing him to worry at this time ''.
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Nowhere in Isfahan is this rich aesthetic life of the Persians shown so well as during the promenade at the Khaju bridge.
Here, on the hottest day, it is cool beneath the stone and fresh from the water flowing in the sluices at the bottom of the vaults.
And it is expressed, at least to their taste, in a perfect form.
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We are desperately in the need of such invention, for man is still very much at the mercy of man.
That, I thought, is at least one thing I can find out when we meet.
But it is different at Chartres.
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