![]() Throughout the whole book, in fact, Meursault seems frighteningly indifferent.Įven after his girlfriend Marie proposes to him, Meursault appears detached and apathetic. He not only accepts his fate, but greets it as a brother - sickly or rather, absurdly. Finding it so much like myself-so like a brother, really-I felt happy and that I was happy again” (Camus 122/123). As he mentally prepares himself for execution, Meursault thinks, “As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Indeed, Meursault is at ease sitting in his jail cell. Similarly, Camus depicts Meursault as reasonably happy after he receives his sentence. ![]() “One must imagine Sisyphus happy,” Camus later elaborates (78). “Happiness and absurd are two sons of the same earth,” Camus writes. ![]() Camus ponders over what Sisyphus must be thinking on his way down the hill (for the billionth or so time), and concludes that his absurd resignation has rendered him content. ![]() Indeed, Camus believes Sisyphus is absurd (and tragic) because of his apparent indifference - his acknowledgement of the futility of his task and the acceptance of his fate. ![]()
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