The word “absurd” or “absurdity” is very particular in that there is no clear definition of the term. The Merriam-Webster online dictionary gave its definition of "absurd" as "having no rational or orderly relationship to human life: meaningless, also: lacking order or value." Many existential philosophers have defined it in their own way. Soren Kierkegarrd, a pre-World War II German philosopher, defined the absurd as “that quality of the Christian faith which goes against all reasonable human expectations” (Woelfel 40). Jean-Paul Sartre, a post-World War II French philosopher, believed that the absurd was “the simple contingency, the ‘presence’ or gratuitousness of the world” (Woelfel 41). Both of these definitions are difficult to interpret and mostly do not correspond to how Camus viewed the word absurd. Camus gives his interpretation of the absurd in his book The Myth of Sisyphus, the moment when man realizes that all the struggles we face in a repeated daily cycle are in reality completely meaningless (Woelfel 44). In James W. In Woelfel's book, Camus: A Theological Perspective, he gives us in detail Camus' point of absurdity, I said that the world is not absurd. Man, this strange animal, is not absurd either. What is it then? The absurd, says Camus, is precisely the relationship between man, who demands ultimate rationality, and his irrational world: the “confrontation between human need and the unreasonable silence of the world” (Camus, Myth 21). …man feels different from his natural environment and wanting more than he can produce…nature has produced a being with needs he cannot satisfy. The juxtaposition of the human need for ultimate meaning with the ultimate lack of meaning produced by the universe is middle of paper......foreign.' » Storybites.com. Stories, 2011. Web. August 26, 2015. “Absurd.” Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. http://www.merriam-webster.com/Web. August 26, 2015. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/absurdBraun, Lev. Albert Camus: moralist of the absurd. Cranbury: UP Associate, 1974. Camus, Albert. The myth of Sisyphus. Trans. Justin O'Brien. New York: Vintage, 1955.---. The Stranger. Trans. Matthew Ward. New York: Vintage, 1988. Ellison, David R. Understanding Albert Camus. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 1990. Masters, Brian. Camus: a study. London: Heinemann, 1974. McCarthy, Patrick. Camus: The Stranger. Cambridge UP, 1988. Todd, Oliver. Albert Camus: A life. Trans. Benjamin Ivry. New York: Knopf, 1997. Woelfel, James W. Camus: A Theological Perspective. New York: Abingdon, 1975.