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Comparing The Hero In Albert Camus's The Myth Of Sisyphus

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In Albert Camus’s “The Myth of Sisyphus,” Sisyphus is an absurd hero because he has accepted his punishment by the Gods as his destiny. The philosopher, Albert Camus writes about how Sisyphus accepts his punishment. Sisyphus was punished for stealing the secrets of the Gods, because of this he received eternal punishment. His penalty was to roll a boulder up a mountain for the rest of his life, once it reached the top it will roll back down and he will have to start all over. Camus’ states, “But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well” (3). In other words, Camus is trying to say that Sisyphus sentence is not much of a torture anymore because he has acknowledged his fate.

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