The world is meaningless and nothing matters, not skydiving off the Eiffel tower, not murdering a man, and not writing essays; that is, according to existentialism and absurdism, a branch of existentialism. Furthermore, In the absurdist novel about how young man devoid of empathy is sentenced to death after having shot a man and his philosophical transformation, the Stranger by Albert Camus, the author uses religion, hope and, choice, in the final moments of the book to illustrate absurdist and existentialist ideals.
Religion has been used to bring meaning to man 's life and to explain whats happens after death, these conflicting ideals with Meursault 's beliefs only work to provide evidence for humanities fruitless attempts to evade death. …show more content…
Once the chaplain leaves, after being screamed at my meursault, “it was as if the great rush of anger had washed [him] clean, emptied [him]of hope,” At this point Meursault is begging give up hope and with that action an absurdist realization is able to take place. With the vanishing of unnecessary hope meursault begins a transformation and with the realization and acceptance of his pending death it is like he is going to be reborn, “and, gazing up at the dark sky...for the first time, the first, [Meursault] laid [his] heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like [himself]...made [him] realize that [he’d] [is] happy...” (154). As Meursault opens himself up to accept his fear of death and death itself he is able to find true happiness in the absurdist fact that nothing really matters. In addition one can compare Meursault 's transformation into an absurdist hero to Sisyphos, a man punished by the gods to roll boulder up a mountain only to watch it roll down- eternally doing a meaningless task with no hope of ever accomplishing it. in “Sisyphus is happy” Oliver Kim states, “...Sisyphus was the archetypal absurdist hero- burdened by his meaningless task and facing an uncaring universe, sisyphus acknowledges and accepts the absurdity of his fate...left by fate with no other …show more content…
Every choice one makes, no matter how insignificant or gran one might think it is, really is insignificant. this illustrates Meursault 's belief that every choice he has made upto this point, no matter how regrettable or noble, would not change his ending outcome-death. There will always be a tomorrow to look for and one 's choices don 't change that, similarly to how one 's existence in the world has little meaning. As Jean Paul-Sartre said, “if existence really does precede essence ...man is free, man is freedom... if god does not exist we find no values or commands to turn to which legitimize our conduct...we have no excuse behind us...we are alone, with no excuses.” This illustrates the absurdist ideal that one is alone in the world, a world not only indifferent to suffering but also in itself absurd and random. If one 's choices do not affect their overall outcome then man is free to do whatever nothing will affect the overall outcome and that ties in the absurdism. When man is handed endless choices with no consequence, in sense man is truly free, choice itself binds man to an action that will affect everything afterward, only if choice even has an affect on life and according to absurdity it does not. Absurisms is exemplified through the freedom in choice being
Religion has been used to bring meaning to man 's life and to explain whats happens after death, these conflicting ideals with Meursault 's beliefs only work to provide evidence for humanities fruitless attempts to evade death. …show more content…
Once the chaplain leaves, after being screamed at my meursault, “it was as if the great rush of anger had washed [him] clean, emptied [him]of hope,” At this point Meursault is begging give up hope and with that action an absurdist realization is able to take place. With the vanishing of unnecessary hope meursault begins a transformation and with the realization and acceptance of his pending death it is like he is going to be reborn, “and, gazing up at the dark sky...for the first time, the first, [Meursault] laid [his] heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like [himself]...made [him] realize that [he’d] [is] happy...” (154). As Meursault opens himself up to accept his fear of death and death itself he is able to find true happiness in the absurdist fact that nothing really matters. In addition one can compare Meursault 's transformation into an absurdist hero to Sisyphos, a man punished by the gods to roll boulder up a mountain only to watch it roll down- eternally doing a meaningless task with no hope of ever accomplishing it. in “Sisyphus is happy” Oliver Kim states, “...Sisyphus was the archetypal absurdist hero- burdened by his meaningless task and facing an uncaring universe, sisyphus acknowledges and accepts the absurdity of his fate...left by fate with no other …show more content…
Every choice one makes, no matter how insignificant or gran one might think it is, really is insignificant. this illustrates Meursault 's belief that every choice he has made upto this point, no matter how regrettable or noble, would not change his ending outcome-death. There will always be a tomorrow to look for and one 's choices don 't change that, similarly to how one 's existence in the world has little meaning. As Jean Paul-Sartre said, “if existence really does precede essence ...man is free, man is freedom... if god does not exist we find no values or commands to turn to which legitimize our conduct...we have no excuse behind us...we are alone, with no excuses.” This illustrates the absurdist ideal that one is alone in the world, a world not only indifferent to suffering but also in itself absurd and random. If one 's choices do not affect their overall outcome then man is free to do whatever nothing will affect the overall outcome and that ties in the absurdism. When man is handed endless choices with no consequence, in sense man is truly free, choice itself binds man to an action that will affect everything afterward, only if choice even has an affect on life and according to absurdity it does not. Absurisms is exemplified through the freedom in choice being