Albert Camus · Philosophy
Camus’s answer to the absurd, made unforgettable. Sisyphus, condemned to roll a boulder uphill forever, becomes the absurd hero - because in the lucid moment of his descent, scorning his fate and owning his rock, he is master of his days. His happiness is a decision, not a reward.
You learned that Camus makes Sisyphus the hero of the absurd: his consciousness of his fate is both his torture and his victory, and by scorning the gods and embracing his rock as his own, he becomes happy in the very moment of futility. Explain why Camus ends with ‘one must imagine Sisyphus happy,’ and wh…
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