Soren Kierkegaard and Jean-Paul Sartre were two key philosophers in the field of Existentialism. Essentially, Camus uses this myth to illustrate the absurdity of life but also says that “one must imagine Sisyphus happy” because he ultimately finds meaning and purpose in this absurd task. We can see this in Albert Camus’s “ The Myth of Sisyphus ” (1942) which is about a Greek myth where Sisyphus, as his punishment, is condemned to roll a giant boulder to the top of a mountain only to have it roll back down again and again for eternity. Persistence through encounters with the absurd is a common subject in existentialist philosophy. The entire perception of meaning is constructed to hide the truth that there’s no genuine meaning, a way to mask the nothingness in our lives. It also often claims that existence has no purpose or explanation at its heart, carrying an unsettling feeling with it. It emphasizes that every being that is put on this earth is on the quest of finding meaning in its life. It supports subjectivity the meaning that it talks about isn't objective nor does it come from objective reality. So, to give a little bit of metaphorical sunshine and hope to this relatively dark and hopeless world that nihilism created, Existentialism was born.Įxistentialism: Questioning the Purpose of LifeĮxistentialism enters the picture and says that no, we can make meaning in this irrational and absurd world. Such a theory is naturally difficult to digest, not many people would simply accept it or would be able to endure such a harsh view of life and of the world. Borrowing a line from a Pink Floyd song "we're just another brick in the wall". The system is in motion and we are just a tiny part of it our choices don't matter, our thoughts don't matter, our lives don't matter, nothing does. We, humans, are just complex machines that are part of this bigger and more complex machine that we call the universe. Nihilism says that everything is set in stone and that we don't have any actual choice. It rejects everything there is about life- morality, knowledge, objective truth, values, meaning, and basically just live itself. But before that, I‘d like to discuss a bit about what Nihilism says because one must look at the question first to answer it. In this article, I’ll be discussing one specific theme i.e. Ironically, for a play where literally nothing happens, there’s a whole mountain of themes and underlying meanings to decipher. The readers have to make their own assessment and conclusion because the writers provide us with nothing but utter nonsense. You can understand the meaning of the word but the reader has to search for the message behind them. Though the language used is very easily understood and simple. The play is written in such a way that the message that Beckett is trying to convey is never actually directly said. The play begins with Vladimir and Estragon, our main characters, waiting for Godot, whose identity not even the writer knew, and the play ends with them still waiting.
It’s awful.”įirst premiered in 1953, Samuel Beckett’s ‘Waiting For Godot’ continues to gain popularity as time goes on.
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