A comparison of the heroes of the stranger (The Stranger) and the myth of SisyphusIn The Myth of Sisyphus, Sisyphus is an absurd hero because he realizes his situation, does it The aim of this essay is to demonstrate that The Stranger also shows us, in narrative style, an absurd hero, or the beginning of an absurd hero in Meursault. In The Myth of Sisyphus, Camus establishes the epistemology on which he bases all his work. Ant is a very simple epistemology. He says: "This heart in me, I feel it and I judge that I exist. This world, I can touch it and also judge that it exists. There ends all my being. knowledge and the rest is construction. Between the certainty that I have of my existence and the content that I try to give to this assurance, the gap will never be filled” Thus for Camus we discover that life has value but has no meaning. Meaning implies a kind of construction of purpose, a certain teleological approach and, for Camus, there is no purpose. Life is not a pilgrimage, death is not an open door, but c. It is a closed and empty wall which ultimately works, of course, to force us to concentrate on life. In Camus there is a precise use of the word "absurd". "Absurd" comes from the Latin surdis and in surdis we have. a double definition: it means irrational, insensitive (on this side, we still use the word in mathematics; a "surd" is an irrational number. But Camus focuses on the other meaning which comes from the root. That is to say “deaf, silent”. There are many examples in the literature of this particular type of silence. I think of Romeo and Juliet when her parents ordered Juliet to marry the County of Paris, and in one of Shakespeare's best scenes in that play, he makes Juliet's father speak... in the middle of a paper..... .e. But rather we are depicted as small, mortal specks on a minor planet, in an ordinary solar system, located nowhere in particular, in infinite space, and subject to all manner of dark and irrational forces, over which we have little control. . We must live and die with the fear and anxiety, the absurdity, the frustration and futility that people experience today. We must live in the present moment and try to discover the real, raw and given facts of human existence; discover them, confront them and live with them. Camus does this; neither more nor less. He becomes, so to speak, a saint without God. We could do worse than recall the epigraph that Camus uses at the beginning of The Myth of Sisyphus. He cites the Greek poet Pindar, writing in the 5th century BC; “O my soul, do not aspire to an immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.".

Essay / A comparison of the heroes of the stranger (The Stranger) and the myth of SisyphusIn The Myth of Sisyphus, Sisyphus is an absurd hero because he realizes his situation, does it The aim of this essay is to demonstrate that The Stranger also shows us, in narrative style, an absurd hero, or the beginning of an absurd hero in Meursault. In The Myth of Sisyphus, Camus establishes the epistemology on which he bases all his work. Ant is a very simple epistemology. He says: "This heart in me, I feel it and I judge that I exist. This world, I can touch it and also judge that it exists. There ends all my being. knowledge and the rest is construction. Between the certainty that I have of my existence and the content that I try to give to this assurance, the gap will never be filled” Thus for Camus we discover that life has value but has no meaning. Meaning implies a kind of construction of purpose, a certain teleological approach and, for Camus, there is no purpose. Life is not a pilgrimage, death is not an open door, but c. It is a closed and empty wall which ultimately works, of course, to force us to concentrate on life. In Camus there is a precise use of the word "absurd". "Absurd" comes from the Latin surdis and in surdis we have. a double definition: it means irrational, insensitive (on this side, we still use the word in mathematics; a "surd" is an irrational number. But Camus focuses on the other meaning which comes from the root. That is to say “deaf, silent”. There are many examples in the literature of this particular type of silence. I think of Romeo and Juliet when her parents ordered Juliet to marry the County of Paris, and in one of Shakespeare's best scenes in that play, he makes Juliet's father speak... in the middle of a paper..... .e. But rather we are depicted as small, mortal specks on a minor planet, in an ordinary solar system, located nowhere in particular, in infinite space, and subject to all manner of dark and irrational forces, over which we have little control. . We must live and die with the fear and anxiety, the absurdity, the frustration and futility that people experience today. We must live in the present moment and try to discover the real, raw and given facts of human existence; discover them, confront them and live with them. Camus does this; neither more nor less. He becomes, so to speak, a saint without God. We could do worse than recall the epigraph that Camus uses at the beginning of The Myth of Sisyphus. He cites the Greek poet Pindar, writing in the 5th century BC; “O my soul, do not aspire to an immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.".

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