Summary Of Albert Camus 'Absurd'

The Stranger by Albert Camus focuses largely on the concept of absurdism. Camus uses family and personal relationships, or the lack of it thereof, to show the isolation that the main character, Meursault, undergoes in the novel and it’s effect on him overall. Camus utilizes the protagonists’ character development as a tool to further his plot of the novel. The absence of family and personal relationships tied in with the particular recurring topics of the novel are crucial in both the development of the protagonists’ characters as well as the plot as it affects the portrayal of the main character.

| The search for meaning and purpose in life is an important aspect of life. According to this psychologist, people are always striving to meet their needs.

As humans, it’s in our nature to look for the meaning in our lives. Our minds are very complex and allow us the gift but also the despair of contemplating our existence and purpose in this world. Nowadays, it’s common for us to go on journeys to find the purpose of one’s life and to discover themselves and find direction for their future. In the article “Authentic purpose: the spiritual infrastructure of life” by Corey L.M. Keyes, Keyes explores the reason on why finding a purpose has become so key to one’s health and the different ways that we find purpose in our lives.

Life was created to give living things a purpose. This motive is finding its own

Camus optically discerns Sisyphus as the absurd hero who lives life to the plenary, execrates death, and is condemned to a nonessential task. Camus presents Sisyphus's ceaseless and unavailingly futile toil as a metaphor for modern lives spent working at futile jobs in factories and offices. In the Myth of Sisyphus This man, sentenced to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain and then visually examining its descent, is the epitome of the absurd hero according to Camus. Sisyphus realizes that the rock’s falling is ineluctably foreordained, so pushing the rock up the mountain becomes purportless. So it is with our own lives if there is no God and no coherent meaning in the macrocosm then our everyday activities become entirely frivolous.

Examples of purposes from Man’s Search for Meaning include: a prisoner finding the purpose of his life to see his son one more time, and another to release his life’s research to the scientific community. Both examples have exact end points and ways to measure their fulfillment, but do not allow for any change, which can supply both positive and negative attributes to one’s

Camus insists that there are always choices and the only choice unavailable is not to choose. This idea is portrayed through the decisions that Daru and the prisoner make in the face of dilemmas. However, Camus places more value in the responsibility that influences both Daru and the prisoner to make certain choices. He acknowledges that humans can access certain freedom through accepting their eventual death. The prisoner achieves self-awareness when Daru gives him a life and death choice, but realizes the inexorable truth of futility in fleeing from his punishment. .He makes his own decision and holds accountable for the murder. Meanwhile, Daru’s choice is a true dilemma: He makes his decision based on what he believes is the right thing

The most commonly known plays that Albert Camus took up was Lope de Vega and Dino Buzzati by Calderon. Some of his most common books are Le mythe de Sisyphe, L’Etranger, La Peste, La Chute, and L’Exil et le Royaume. Le Mythe de Sisyphe, also known as The Myth of Sisyphus he wrote in 1942 is about Albert Camus’s idea of what he calls the “total absence of hope”. L’Etranger aka The Stranger which was also published in 1942 “man as the nauseated victim of the absurd orthodoxy of habit, later - when the young killer faces execution - tempted by despair, hope, and salvation.”(Albert Camus - Biographical). La Peste translated as The Plague was published in 1947, this book is about Dr Rieux a doctor “who tirelessly attends the plague-stricken citizens of Oran, enacts the revolt against a world of the absurd and of injustice, and confirms Camus's words: "We refuse to despair of mankind. Without having the unreasonable ambition to save men, we still want to serve them"(Albert Camus - -Biographical). Two other well known works written by Albert Camus are the novels La Chute and L’Exil et le Royaume. La Chute which is translated as “the fall”, was published in 1956 and the novel L’Exil et le Royaume means “Exile and the Kingdom” which was published in 1957. Also in 1957 Albert Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his works and

Albert Camus’ novel The Stranger published in 1942 is a reaction to the political turmoil and upheaval in the world (Maus 12-14). The death of Camus’ father during World War I, the challenges of his identity being brought up by his illiterate destitute pied-noir mother in French-Algeria, and his ensuing career as a political journalist in Paris, all contribute to Camus’ position and animosity toward the world (Maus 12-14). For Camus, the absurdist philosophy represents the ultimate explanation for injustices and deaths. Absurdism is a philosophy that believes that humans live a meaningless existence in an irrational world (Aronson). Existence cannot be explained neither by science nor theology, and the universe has no answers for the purpose of life (Aronson). The resulting paradox of being caught between questioning and never finding answers, as well as the emptiness one feels as a result of this paradox, is why Camus coins it as ‘absurd’ (Aronson). Camus therefore creates a protagonist, Meursault, a French-Algerian man, who embodies absurdism, by showing how life

What is the absurd? Camus categorized as the “belief in the absurdity of existence must then dictate his conduct” (Camus, 6). What Camus means is feeling of absurdity goes hand in hand with having a meaningless life. We get so used to doing the same routine that, we as people don’t think we just act like a robot. Camus asks “Does its absurdity require one to escape it through hope or suicide? And does the absurd dictate death” (Camus, 9). Camus says, “An objective mind can always introduce into all problems have no place in this pursuit and this passion” (Camus, 9). The problem with this is if we were always based on facts then we would not be able to base our opinions on experiences. Camus also relates the feeling of absurdity to exile, we as people what to have meaning and or purpose in our own lives. The absurdity displaces us from having a meaning life. Camus says, “Mean who die by their own hand consequently follow to its conclusion their emotional inclination” (Camus, 9). Camus considers this an absurd reasoning because this feeling of exile can turn anyone crazy leading into suicide which both the absurd and suicide are linked together.

The myth of Sisyphus focuses on a king who was said to be deceitful and spiteful in nature. He was supposedly

Albert Camus, a French philosopher who tries to decipher a meaningful world through the trails and tribulation of life. His piece, The Myth of Sisyphus can be interpreted that the essay represents man’s struggle to belong, an endless journey to achieve, and a glimpse of his own fate. ‘Sisyphus is the absurd hero. He is, as much through his passions as through his torture’. (Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus)

Camus, denies that there is an answer to the meaning of life, and rejects every scientific, religion, or man made end that has tried to come up with an answer. Camus accepts that human beings inevitably seek to understand life’s purpose, Camus takes the a more skeptical position, that the universe does not answer or give purpose to living.. “Since existence itself has no meaning, we must learn to bear an irresolvable emptiness”(). This paradox situation between humans to ask the ultimate questions and the impossibility of achieving any proper answer, is what Camus calls the absurd.

The novel The Stranger written by The French author Albert Camus was published in 1942. The author wrote about what he felt and his views on the world and society. He had very unconventional ideas about morality and believed that life has no rational meaning. These ideas and thoughts are what make this book absurd and very eccentric. Camus' philosophy led to what was later known as Absurdism. Absurdism is the need to look for a meaning to life and their inability to find one

The consideration of the purpose of life has been ongoing and is never-ending throughout the course of history. The question itself has caused many people to generate many different strong views and opinions based on traditional, ideological backgrounds, and religious outlooks. The deliberation about the meaning of life will never end since there is not one reassuring basic, general answer. Instead, examine the question in another way, like, “What is my purpose in life?” The purpose of life varies from one person to another because of “free will.” While some people believe that for every human, life is called to some divine duty by God, everyone has a different drive that is waiting to be discovered within themselves, and people must set