Absurdity: An Essay On The Stranger :: essays research papers

An Essay onThe Stranger The inconclusive"One ring to rule them all,One Ring to find them,One Ring to bring them allAnd in the sinfulness bind them"(Lord of the Rings Volume II, The Council of Elrond)     Within the Stranger, Albert Camus brought up many sidelineions and a few answers. He created an outsider to society and showed us how he lived, Meursault.     Meursault was unceasingly indifferent. Meursault accepted death. Why? Meursault saw the purpose of livelihood meaningless. That is Absurdity Absurdity, how does that boy sound? Pretty bad, eh? Absurdity when used like thats laughable gives the feeling of negative judgment and a sense of finality. The idea of the Absurd seems to attach itself with meaningless, pointless and other such words that express a destination but without the factor to get there and vice versa means but no destination. So from there I inferred that Camus does not recollect in God nor any high law or ecumenical law that are associated with a divinity, which is a path in life (either the means or the destination). So what is Absurd? The Absurd is sustainment, a quest to find the meaning of anything within a reality with no purpose. realness has no purpose because there is no high law, a planetary law nor a God. Therefore this reality must be randomness. I believe that Camus wants us to see this and begin questioning our existence. So he wants he wants us to see the Absurdity and to cope with the Absurdity.     If there is no point to living why do we continue to live? If this reality is absurd why dont we recognize that and commit felo-de-se? Taking ones life shows the lack of will or reasons to live and also the needlessness of suffering. So what is living? sustentation is the Absurd. Living is entrustlessness. Living is keeping the absurd alive. To keep the absurd alive you only yield to live the absurd. Life will be more fully lived in so far as it has no meaning. is a quote from Camus that shows this. Camus shows that you can hope for the best without hope. Hope is not the same as hope. Hope is optimism. independence from hope is freedom to your soul. You can no longer hurt yourself by living. It is hard to believe that being hopeless leads to living but living is an imprisonment. We try to be the best we can be but does not life limit us?