A Journal of the Plague Year

by

Daniel Defoe

A Journal of the Plague Year Symbols

The Great Fire

In A Journal of the Plague Year, the Great Fire of London—a real, historical event in early September 1666 in which much of central and western London burned—represents different ways that societies can react…

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Tokens

In A Journal of the Plague Year, the narrator uses the word “Tokens” to refer to a subset of plague symptoms that appear in otherwise apparently unaffected people late in their course of disease…

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