Thursday, October 11, 2018
The Reality Behind Sisyphus's Pain
I Agree with Camus’ argument in his reading of the myth of Sisyphus. I agree with Camus because he talks about Sisyphus’s main pain not coming from the endlessly tiring and pointless punishment but from his knowledge of how life used to be before he was punished. It seems as though Camus is saying that pain in life does not come from physical things but from thoughts of how life “should be” and why an individual's life is not living up to those expectations. Camus argues that although Sisyphus has been deemed this awful and eternal punishment it is not the process of pushing the stone to the top of the hill with false ideas that he might actually succeed that brings him pain. The pain comes from Sisyphus being at the top of the hill and being so close to the life he once had that was filled with social constructs of what happiness should be and realizing he will never have that again.
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This is really well put and I agree that the real punishment isn't the physical torture but the mental torture of knowing what life used to be.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how much mental Pain Sisyphus actually went through cause Camus´ makes it sound like Sisyphus was in a happy place when he was pushing the rock up the hill.
ReplyDeleteThis is what I was thinking too, about how the real punishment for him isn't the physical part at all. I wonder if there is any point where so much of that suffering for him makes him numb to it anymore.
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