Justin Brown
2nd
Installment
The Myth of Sisyphus
The Myth of Sisyphus was written by
Albert Camus. He originated his philosophy the absurd. Absurdism is intentionally
ridiculous or bizarre behavior or character. In the first chapter the French philosopher
described the terms of absurdism. The question that he believes that matters
the most when it comes to philosophy is: “Does the realization of the
meaninglessness and absurdity of life necessarily require suicide?”. He
believes that life is meaningless and nonsensical and he notice how people
strive for meaning. In the story of this myth of Sisyphus he was the founder
and king of Ephyra. Sisyphus is smart and evil as well. Sisyphus profession was
being a highwayman. A highway man is a robber who stole from travelers on foot.
The gods rebuked Sisyphus for rolling a rock on top of the mountain knowing
that the rock would roll back because of its weight. In a plot to kill his
brother he got his niece pregnant. He killed travelers and betrayed the gods. Mercury
sent down the god of death (Thanatos) whom is the god of death so he can tie
down Sisyphus. Sisyphus was so smart that he out smarted the god of death and
instead the god was death was in chains. Sisyphus was near death and he wanted
to test his wife love for him and ordered here to give him a proper burial for
his undead body but he ended up in the underworld. But he escaped by tricking Pluto.
He came back from the underworld to discipline his wife for not doing what he
said do for the proper burial. When he came back to earth he experienced again
the water, sun, the seas and everything that was beautiful to the eye of nature
which made him want to stay and not be inside of the underworld. Mercury came
back and snatched him from his happiness and took him back to the underworld
for eternity. Him mocking the gods and his wrong doings on earth caused him to
be locked away for eternity. This story was “absurd” to me but he was known for
an absurd hero. This story explains Alberts way because him not caring about
life, thinking that its meaningless wrote about the story of a meaningless man
who obviously didn’t care about his outcome of never seeing daylight again. Basically,
the meaning of albert’s question showed that Sisyphus was once a king and had
it all. But his disobedience and careless out look of life made him lose it
all. He thought he was invincible but he was smart and the sneakiest king. No
one could catch him but the King Zeus to put him away for good which made
Sisyphus an “absurd” hero.
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