Albert Camus’ famous essay ‘The Myth Of Sisyphus‘ ends with the groundbreaking line ‘One must imagine Sisyphus happy.’ What does this mean? What happiness can there be in endless torment, in torturous routine? Who even is Sisyphus? Here is an answer to all your questions about Camus’ absurd hero—a human being. The Greek Myth of…
Life can be both brutal and beautiful. And very often the question arises: can happiness and grief coexist? What do you think? Can you be both happy and sad at the same time? The immediate answer would be no. Can someone be both hopeful and desolate? Can you exist in that in between? Can life…
INEZ: Wait! You’ll see how simple it is. Childishly simple. Obviously there aren’t any physical torments—you agree, don’t you? And yet we’re in hell. And no one else will come here. We’ll stay in this room together, the three of us, for ever and ever.…In short, there’s someone absent here the official torturer. GARCIN [sotto…
