Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night filled mountain, in itself forms a world. “This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile.
It is the pursuit for purpose in one’s life which in itself gives meaning to mans’ lives. Like Sisyphus, Man creates a purpose for these repetitive tasks no matter how meaningless the task, such as pushing a boulder up a hill. There is no change in this routine, the same results are produced, and the same hardships are endured. Sisyphus keeps pushing the boulder every step up the hill serving as an inspiration for the next.
Or social popularity which truly manifests solely as idols in an individual mind. The wafer taken during communion is meaningless to most for those believers, it is imparted with a great deal of imagined significance. Any value taken away from a human task is merely what we imagine it to be.
We (as humans, not mythical creatures) perform repetitive tasks, some undertaken with imaginary purpose, all of which in turn appear in and of themselves as devoid of meaning. Sisyphus will do this for eternity the supposed torture in this act being the meaninglessness of it all.Īlthough an eternal torment, Camus’s genius is to highlight the ironic fact that Sisyphus’s tasks are no different than those carried out in modern everyday life. Sisyphus’s punishment is to roll a boulder up a hill which immediately falls down once reaching the top. The myth of Sisyphus describes what is supposedly the harshest of all punishments: the Gods condemn him to a lifetime of futile servitude for the crime of disdain for the Gods and disdain the procession of death.
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