Why Is Sisyphus Be Punished

The Myth of Sisyphus

Sisyphus is probably more famous for his punishment in the underworld than for what he did in his life. He was punished by gods to continuously role a rock up to the top of the mountain just to roll back the rock down to the bottom every time he reaches the top. Camus suggest that gods were wise in perceiving that there is no more terrible punishment rather than a fruitless and hopeless labor.

There are number of myths but one which is not mutually exclusive is that which explain, how Sisyphus came to earn his punishment in the underworld. According to the ones who believes Homer, Sisyphus was the wisest and the most sensible among human beings. However, he was given to practice the profession of a highwayman as a criminal but according to another tradition, one cannot see any conflict in that. Therefore opinions differ due to reasons that's why he became a fruitless labor of hell. If we begin with those things he was punished than the first thing he was accused of was the lack of appropriate seriousness …show more content…
We must be genuinely happy, he proposes, when we acknowledge our life and our fate as completely our own particular as the main thing we have and as the main thing we will be. The last sentence peruses: "One must imagine Sisyphus happy." But why must we imagine Sisyphus happy? Camus' wording proposes that we have no decision in the matter. In any case is there an option? Sisyphus is the absurd hero, the man who cherished life so much that he has been sentenced to an unending length of time of pointless and miserable work. But he is over that fate accurately on the grounds that he is aware of it. In the event that Sisyphus is not happy in this awareness, then absurd awareness does not bring joy. It would then take after that bliss is just conceivable on the off chance that we avoid foolish awareness, in the event that we jump into trust or