Albert Camus The Myth Of Sisyphus

In the essay The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus attempts to give answers to some tough questions. He wants to know if life is worth living or how we can make it worth living, as well as whether or not it is possible to live with certainty. To him, the absurd man realizes that life is absurd after his expectations are repeatedly contradicted and he realizes the world is an unreasonable place that cannot be explained. These unreasonable expectations of certainty ultimately cause many absurd men to think that life is not worth living when they are faced with what they feel is a hopeless situation. Camus offers an alternative to the problem the absurd man faces and it is not suicide or “Philosophical suicide”. Other philosophers commit philosophical suicide by suggesting that there is enough evidence, whatever it maybe, that one should survive on hope alone or make some leap. But Camus thinks that if a person is honest and truthful to themselves that they know they are nothing more than “a stranger” in this world. So how does one live a life worth living when faced with absurdity?

Burdens are bore by people within their everyday lives, and within even the simplest of lifestyles. The example made by Albert Camus in The Myth of Sisyphus uses Sisyphus to exemplify how life can be empty for some and viewed as futile and while this presents challenges, it is what one does with the difficulty that results in what the quality of life may be. Within this depiction, Camus presents the concept of absurdity, which can be viewed as a part of the essence in human existence and should be taken as a challenge to be continued. Sisyphus, although repeating an endless retribution, finds the ability to look past this punishment and forward towards a “silent joy” that allows him to live in an uncertain state. In defining the interest, which

Suffering and hardship are a part of life. You can look at any culture, any country, any family, and see that, at any point in time, there is something that can seem absurd or hopeless. The Myth of Sisyphus is a prime example in having experience absurd suffering with no end in sight, where Sisyphus is punished by the gods to push a bolder up to the top of a hill, only to have it roll back down and start all over again. Albert Camus, however, says that in any absurd situation, happiness is present. To Camus, Sisyphus is an absurd man, yet he has the ability to find small moments of happiness during his eternal punishment. Sisyphus finds happiness at the top of the hill, almost celebrating his small, redundant accomplishment of reaching

The Myth of Sisyphus (Irony and hyperbole) Situational Irony: When Zeus sent Thanatos (Death) after Sisyphus because of his betrayal. Sisyphus was able to outwit Death because he asked Thanatos to demonstrate how a pair of handcuffs worked and then locked them on Death himself or he used some trick to entrap Death in heavy chains. But you would expect that there was no way that Sisyphus was able to escape Death but his intelligence outsmarted Thanatos and he trapped Death. Verbal Irony: When Sisyphus told the Queen that his wife’s neglect of funeral ceremonies and sacrifices might set a bad example for other widows in the future. The Queen fell for his pleas and let him return to the surface of the earth, so he can arrange for his funeral,

The more a question is argued the better that question becomes it is often said. That question begins to grow and the side effect of this is the more people it reaches. Whether that question can be put into a category of right or wrong it begs to be answered. Knowledge is something that people instinctively need to function when faced with a problem, an answer must be found or it begins to form eminent possibility in any direction. The problem is a question that no one can truly answer for anyone other than the person faced with it, which is one's own self. The arguments from either side of this philosophical problem must not be centered around one's own belief but all that share the dilemma, which is in fact every human being. Suicide, that is the one thing that every person who is physically capable has the ability to do. The philosophical question of suicide is truly a serious one, so serious in fact that some have proclaimed it to be the only question. To live or to die, a choice that some hold so high as to say it is the only one problem any one person can face. This problem is one seen by many as a philosophical problem and that idea does hold ground. Grounds being that if one dies then the other questions do not really matter in life, as with the invert of this to live. When one is alive all philosophical question matter every second that one is breathing but can be all can be ended with one act. So if life is the beginning of all the problems, then suicide is the ending to every problem. With such a serious question many will have very enlighten and fictitious answers on the philosophical problem of suicide. The philosophical problem of suicide will have supporters and opponents and those people have adequate support...

...t people live until they used up all of their options: when you’re dead, you don’t have any more chances to improve your lot. And before committing suicide, I think that the person in question should consider all of the consequences and decide if they can live with them. Or, more accurately, die with them.

I'm about to take up a position which is going to be deamed by some, if not all, as a terrible stand to take. As a matter of fact, if anyone were to agree with me on ths subject, I'd be surprsed. For you see, rather than arguing from the postion of suicide being an unjustified and inane way to die, I shall argue the other point. That being suicide does have its merits.

Suicide is not a solution to any problem. It only makes things worse and more complicated. Depressed people are not the only ones to commit suicide. A person who could seem to be the happiest, most outgoing person you know could kill themselves and you would never be able to figure out why. People just sporadically think that suicide is the best alternative and that it is the end all be all solution to all their problems. But what they don’t think about is that they won’t have anymore problems because they will be dead.

Every mind has struggled with Existentialism. Its founders toiled to define it, philosophers strained to grasp it, teachers have a difficult time explaining it. Where do these Existentialists get the right to tell me that my one and only world is meaningless? How can a student believe that someone was sitting in jail and figured out that our existence precedes our essence? Existentialism places man in the center of his own universe; free to make his own choices and decide his purpose. Many of us are not ready for this.

Human existence is filled with suffering because of our emotional nature. Schopenhauer states that to reduce suffering, we must live a life of intellect alone. His characterizations of our suffering in this world centre on our emotions, and his recommendations centre on distancing ourselves from them, a virtually impossible task. While he may not recommend suicide as strongly as he recommends distancing oneself from their emotions they amount to essentially the same thing. A man who does not feel might as well be dead.