Read Boccaccio's account of the plague in Florence at the link below. What can you tell about Boccaccio's values and concerns from this account? In what ways might seeing the kinds of things he describes affect his writing and his general view of life?
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This is a sad story about a plague that completly changed how the people thought and did things. His concerns were with the way the people were acting. They were leaving the sick to die without any help for fear that they would contract the diease and die themselves. People were drinking and not caring about making food or caring for their animals. At the end, after thousands had died, people just gave up on life. It was common occurence for there to be hundreds of corpses buried together. There were no longer candles burnt of family and friends at a funeral. It became a norm and not a tradition anymore. People expected to die and not to live. It was a terrible time. It affected his writing because it was really hard for him to see these things with his own eyes. His view of life changed because people just gave up on life without another thought.
This is a sad story about a plague that completly changed how the people thought and did things. His concerns were with the way the people were acting. They were leaving the sick to die without any help for fear that they would contract the diease and die themselves. People were drinking and not caring about making food or caring for their animals. At the end, after thousands had died, people just gave up on life. It was common occurence for there to be hundreds of corpses buried together. There were no longer candles burnt of family and friends at a funeral. It became a norm and not a tradition anymore. People expected to die and not to live. It was a terrible time. It affected his writing because it was really hard for him to see these things with his own eyes. His view of life changed because people just gave up on life without another thought.
Natasha Doxsee
I forgot my name on the 1st one!
Reading about Baccaccio about the plague in Florence and the surrounding villages. Baccaccio or any other person that saw and lived during that time of the plague. If you were to help someone with the plague would you live more then three days to till the story. Or run away from the sick instead of helping and possibly living with that guilt, it even talks about parents abandoning there own children if they contracted the plague. Me personally I would die with my children than live with that kind of guilt of them suffering and dying alone. I think what Baccaccio saw affects his writing and thinking dramatically. Present day would be calling it Post Tramatic Stress Disorder. Another thing that I learned from this reading was the "London Bridge is Falling Down" it is a song that refers to a plague. Also "pocket full of posies" refers to flowers people would carry during the epidemic for smell. Intersting stuff.
Tyson Peltier
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