An Analysis Of Camus’S Interpretation Of The
...Life Is Absurd by Albert Camus.
Suicide is a social phenomenon, as there is no right or wrong answer to it, apart from that it is a way to voluntarily end one’s life. This raises the issues of the meaning of life and its existence.
Camus believed that people who commit suicide are cowards and are full of weaknesses, as they fail to see the meaning in life. He thought that the only reason that people want to end their life was because of the fact that they put everything that is to do with the purpose in life into someone, or something, else other than them-selves. For example, some parents, when they lose their only child, feel suicidal as their soul purpose in life had vanished. Camus also believed that those who commit suicide are, in some ways, insane. Bottom line, it is those who pursue and compre-hend the meaning of life that lives.
According to Camus, there is no meaning in life, and that life has no appeal. He believed that it is not the meaning of life, but the acceptance of one’s life, that is important. If one can accept the absurdity in life and deals with it, then one can never feel empty. People need to experience the absurdity of life before they can under-stand its true meaning. Stoicism is the key to the happiness in life. It is crucial for one to accept the bad things in life and be optimistic to whatever comes in one’s way.
Camus had allegedly told us that we have freedom to make our own choices in life, and that it is within these choices that determines our fate. However, if one thinks that it is fate that controls our future, then one would become cynical as this is the instinct response for a human being. It is wise, then, to concentrate on making the most out of one’s life, rather than on how to live it better.
Having read Absurdity and Suicide and Absurd Freedom, I can gather that Camus was an...
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