Hopeless, a task that can never be complete, labor that will never end, happiness that will never be found. This is what Albert Camus shows us in The Myth of Sisyphus. The central point is the absurdity of happiness, this is apparent in the following sentence “But when he had seen again, the face of this world, enjoyed water and sun, warm stones and the sea,” (Albert Camus). Sisyphus is a hedonist, he takes great joy from the world and enjoys all the earthly pleasures of the warm sun, and the calm sea, he loves to live his life full of pleasure. However, the gods are determined to punish Sisyphus for not staying in the underworld after he had died. Consequently, he is taken by Mercury back to the underworld, were his rock is there ready for him. …show more content…
Thanks to the fact that while he was trying to find happiness, he found misery. Therefore, because of his passion for life, hatred of death, and defiance of the gods, ultimately brings him to his place in the underworld, repeatedly pushing a rock up a hill for all eternity. Albert Camus only adds on to the hopeless feeling by going on to explain the task at hand as Sisyphus labored in vain. Camus, however brings some form of hope to what appears to be a hopeless situation “At each those moments when he leaves the heights and gradually sinks toward the lair of the gods, he is superior to his fate” (Albert Camus). While after toiling for hours to push the great stone up the steep hill only to watch it roll back down again Sisyphus seems to march down with some optimism, probably because he, in a metaphoric sense, has lost