Saturday, November 5, 2011
Critique This Please (Myth of Sisyphus related)?
Sisyphus exists in the epitome of absurdity, for not only does the agonizing curse of futile labor ail our hero, but also his eternal exile. One might add that with this never-ending exile from his once-had happiness, while “the absurd man” is pushing his rock up the mountain, there is nothing for but toil and struggle for him. However, “The absurd is born of [the] confrontation between the human need [for happiness and reason] and the unreasonable silence of the world.”7 It is this inability to understand, this expulsion, this exile from this higher knowledge, thus then fabricates the absurd. It is impossible to say the exile from the happiness, he once had, eradicates the probability of prospective happiness, for the absurd man asks, “What can the meaning outside my condition mean to [him]?” Namely, humans can only understand things in human terms. A human knows what’s happened, and a human knows what’s happening, what a human doesn’t know is what will happen. Consequently, in this respect, it is impossible to decipher whether or not Sisyphus is capable of coming across happiness in such absurdity; we cannot believe what we cannot bear.
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