Albert Camus
Absurdity and
suicide
1.
Suicide is a philosophical problem. Some people
die because they think life is not worth living and some people get killed for
the idea that gave them a reason to live.
2.
Meaning of life is more urgent
3.
Concerned with relationship between individual
thought and suicide. According to Camus the feeling of absurdity is a divorce
between man and life, the actor and his setting. The feeling of exile,
strangeness and homelessness is also absurd.
4.
Is
suicide answer to absurd? How to escape the absurd? Through hope or suicide
one can escape absurdity of life. Is there logic behind death? We can only find
that after dying and this reasoning is called absurd reasoning.
5.
The real effort is to stay here and live
Sisyphus or other absurd hero. Win
or have an absurd victory when they accept their fate and be happy with it.
Happiness and absurd all different yet inseparable. Accepting the torment.
6.
According to Camus Sisyphus is an absurd hero.
He proposes that one should keep living even if life has no meaning. If we face
absurd then we should not die but live life to the fullest considering my
readers have read about Sisyphus I
would move forward. Sisyphus represents condition of human life, he struggles
without a hope, and he accepts life as an absurd struggle and is able to find
happiness in it.
7.
According to Camus feeling of absurdity is
connected to exile and meaninglessness of life and the act of suicide is a
result of it. Is suicide solution to absurd? Or is hope? Taking example of Estragon and Vladimir who are the
protagonists of post- modernist play “Waiting
for Godot” by Samuel Beckett. Estragon and Vladimir want to suicide but are
unable to because of lack of resource. Does Beckett wants to defend the absurd
or is he placing hope in the play,
is he showing Vladimir and Estragon has meaning in their lives. Giving the
example of Sisyphus Camus gives us the
ideal absurd hero who lives by hope and finally has an absurd victory by
accepting his fate. Vladimir and Estragon’s fate is waiting for Godot and they
keep waiting for him, sometimes thinking about suicide but at other time
hopefully waiting that he will come. Camus suggests that our instinct for life is stronger than
reasons to commit suicide. The feeling of absurdity as Camus defines is that of
exile, strangeness and meaninglessness of life.
Deepali Yadav
Student
at Kamala Nehru College (DU)
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