Since the human appeared in the planet, he has started trying to create or search meaning of their lives. Freedom which is the essential part of people’s lives had been also confued with that kind of dilemma. Are we really free? Are we as a human being really care about meanings of our freedom when we make decisions? Those questions always made people to think about freedom as a philosophic concept. Albert Camus, one of the greatest philosophers and writers of 20th century is famous for his exploration of absurd freedom. According to him, endless researches of mankind about freedom in life seems absurd and meaningless. In his philosophical essay, The Myth of
Sisyphus, Camus emphasizes that idea and explains that there are three characteristics of …show more content…
As a characteristic of absurd life, he explains that freedom is a choose that we are absolutely free to think and behave. In “The Guest”, one of the short stories of
Camus, French teacher named Daru, who is living in Algerian town, is given an Arab prisoner and ordered to deliver him to the prison. This story encompasses Camus’s exploration of person’s freedom of choice and consequences of his actions which he emphasized in “The Myth of
Sisyphus”. In “The Guest”, Camus explains that whenever man finds himself in absurd situation, he must question his freedom and after questioning it he should keep his freedom of choice. The main character of “The Guest” is Daru, an Algerian-born French school master. The story takes place on small Algerian mountain region in the late 1940s, when conflict between
French colonialists and Algerian nationalists had already started. That conflict later would end with the independence of Algeria from France. Without any students, Daru isolated and left lonely in the school. One day, Daru sees two people are approaching to him. He recognizes that one of them is an old gendarme Balducci who rides on horseback. Another is the unnamed Arab
Sisyphus, Camus emphasizes that idea and explains that there are three characteristics of …show more content…
As a characteristic of absurd life, he explains that freedom is a choose that we are absolutely free to think and behave. In “The Guest”, one of the short stories of
Camus, French teacher named Daru, who is living in Algerian town, is given an Arab prisoner and ordered to deliver him to the prison. This story encompasses Camus’s exploration of person’s freedom of choice and consequences of his actions which he emphasized in “The Myth of
Sisyphus”. In “The Guest”, Camus explains that whenever man finds himself in absurd situation, he must question his freedom and after questioning it he should keep his freedom of choice. The main character of “The Guest” is Daru, an Algerian-born French school master. The story takes place on small Algerian mountain region in the late 1940s, when conflict between
French colonialists and Algerian nationalists had already started. That conflict later would end with the independence of Algeria from France. Without any students, Daru isolated and left lonely in the school. One day, Daru sees two people are approaching to him. He recognizes that one of them is an old gendarme Balducci who rides on horseback. Another is the unnamed Arab