Freedom In Albert Camus's The Myth Of Sisyphus

Everybody has his/her own definition of freedom, each of us perceives the meaning of freedom in different ways. In my opinion, freedom is to do what you want without limiting it, without thinking the consequences of it, and without external influence. Also people cannot be free with saying that they are free, but they have to feel that they are free. Moreover, human nature was born to be a free, not to be noble from someone. Human freedom is the essence of the human nature. Every action of human being is characterized with freedom in some way. People think, people do, people create and according to the free human being freedom must be obvious in each of all these activities. However, in order to keep people under the control, government prefer

Camus has lots of interesting and popular works and “The Myth of Sisyphus” is one of them. In this philosophical piece Camus informs his readers about the absurdity and the reasons of the widespread philosophical problem suicide. According to Camus absurd derived from three principal consequences - revolt, freedom, and passion. Author considers the notion of absurd freedom is false freedom. Further he states that everything starts with thinking, “Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined”. People live their life with the same rhythm, but one day “why” arises and clutter up all their system. Life becomes meaningless to them and they realize that they are not free. Further, people become aware of that there is no future and future only brings death to people. So according to the opinions of this kind of people absurd and the death are basis of the only “Reasonable Freedom”. In order to be free people commit suicides and the false notion about false freedom brings the end of these people. It was obvious that the real freedom absolutely distinguishes from the false freedom. People can gain real freedom while they live their life without creating barriers which restricts their

The schoolhouse, where all the incidences occurred, built on the hillside in the middle of the plateau. One day the schoolmaster named Daru saw that the two men was coming toward him. When the two men was reached the classroom Daru learned that one of them is a policeman who is name is Balducci and the other is an Arab guy is a prisoner who killed his brother. Balducci said to Daru that he had to take this prisoner to the police. Firstly Daru refused his want, but Balducci told him that it is an order and he must do it, then Daru unintentionally accepted it. Before leaving the classroom Balducci put a gun on a table and said that he had to take care of himself. When Daru learned that the Arab guy killed his brother, firstly Daru was scared but despite this fact he treated the prisoner as a guest in his classroom. Daru feeds the Arab guy, gives him a place to sleep, even get off his restraints. The next day Daru and the Arab guy set off. They walked for hours, suddenly Daru stopped and gave the prisoner a chance to choose his own direction. He could walk to East towards the police office and get arrested by the police officers or he could walk to South towards to the freedom. Daru also gave him a bag which was packaged for him. Furthermore, Daru leaves and the Arab walked to the East towards police office. When Daru returned to the schoolhouse he found a note in the board that