The Quality Of Life In Albert Camus's The Myth Of Sisyphus

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

Faint traces of suicide are provoked by the feelings portrayed by Sisyphus in which with each descent of the rock different emotions that grapple with anguish and desperation are surfaced which remind him of life before he had been given his sentence. The effort given by Sisyphus to will his body to force the huge stone up the hill continuously, only to have it roll back down again I can only imagine to be frustratingly painful. At the end of the extensive (and overall wasted) effort, which is measured by a space filled with sky and an immeasurable sense of time, the purpose which drives Sisyphus is lost as he must watch the stone roll down to the beginning again. Camus describes the return as toiling with each heavy step that leads towards an everlasting punishment and Sisyphus is inclined to feel powerless and hopeless. This feeling that can be perceived from Sisyphus I believe is a natural reaction for humans when we are faced with a disgruntling obstacle that does not seem to

Such when Camus writes, “All Sisyphus’ silent joy is contained therein. His fate belongs to him.”, but also contends that “Likewise, the absurd man, when he contemplates his torment, silences all the idols.” Within these quotes, I find a distinction between the acceptance of fate and the acquisition of circumstance which in both cases of Sisyphus and the absurd man, contends a claim of conflict between what we want from the universe, whether this is meaning, order, or reasons, and what we find in the universe which tends to be the uncertainty that is distinguished by