Sisyphus: summary and meaning of myth

Sífiso is a personagem of Greek mythology considered or more intelligent and I expect two mortals.

In the meantime, he defied you and deceived you and, by isso, received a terrible punishment: roll a great stone in the mountains for all eternity.

His story was used by the philosopher Albert Camus as a representation of the inadequacy of the human being in a suffocating and absurd world.

A story of Sisyphus

According to Greek mythology, Sisyphus was the founder of a territory that is called Corinth, located in the region of Peloponnese.

His country was my Éolo and Enarete and his wife, Merope.

Sisyphus denounces Zeus para o deus Asopo

One day, Sisyphus saw Bela Aegina being sequestered by a guide under the command of Zeus.

Aegina was filha de Asopo, deus dos rios, who was very bowled over as sumiço da filha.

I sell or despair of Asopo, Sisyphus thought that he could throw away information that he had and told him that Zeus had kidnapped moça.

But, on the other hand, he asked Asopo to raise a newborn in his kingdom, a request that was promptly attended to.

Sisyphus deceives Tânatos

Zeus, knowing that Sisyphus had denounced him, was furious and sent Tânatos, or deus da morte, to lift him up for the subterranean world.

But, as Sisyphus was very knowledgeable, he managed to trick Tânatos into saying that he would like to present it to him. Nothing true, or straining was a current that either kept him prisoner and allowed Sisyphus to escape.

Ares liberta Tânatos

As deus gives death imprisoned, houve um tempo em que mais nenhum mortal morria.

Assim, Ares, or deus da guerra, I was also enraged, you are going to war in need of death. At this point, Corinth was released and Tânatos was released to conclude his missio and slight Sisyphus for the underworld.

Sisyphus, not trusting that Isso could run, instructed his wife, Mérope, not to pay him funeral homage, in the case of the morra. Assim e ugly.

Sisyphus meets Hades

When he came to the underworld, Sisyphus found himself with Hades, or two dead men, and told him that his wife had not buried him properly.

Então ele pede à Hades who turned to the world two alive just to reprimand his wife. I must insist, Hades allows such a quick visit.

On the run from Sífiso do submundo

In the meantime, to leave the world two alive, Sisyphus does not return and, one more time, he deceives you.

Sísifo fugiu with his wife and you have a long life, chegando à velhice. But, as he was mortal, one day it was necessary to return to the world two mortals.

On leaving, he stood up as the deuses who had been bred and then received a punishment prior to death.

Or work of Sisyphus

He was condemned to carry out an exhaustive work for his purpose. He would have to roll a huge stone over there.

But when chegasse no mole, due to tiredness, to pedra rolaria morro abaixo. Então Sísifo deveria again raise it up or high. That job would have to be ugly every day, for all eternity.

Or myth of Sisyphusby Albert Camus

Albert Camus (1913-1960) was a French writer and philosopher who was known to develop a work that seeks the liberation of two human beings and questions the absurd relationships that we will seculum XX.

One of his most famous works by him is Or myth of Sisyphus, launched in 1942, when it happened to World War II.

Nesse ensaio, or philosopher uses the history of Sisyphus as an allegory to try questões Existence as a purpose of life, inadequacy, futility and or absurdity of war and relationships of work.

Assim, Camus makes uma relationship between mythology and current, tracing for us the context or work of Sisyphus as a tired and useless contemporary work, not qual or worker or worker does not see sense, but it is necessary to continue to exercise in order to survive.

Muito combative and com ideias favoris ao thought of esquerda, Camus compares or terrível punishment of mythological personagem to or work Exercised for a large part of the labor class, sentenced to serve the same day after the day and, generally, with awareness of her condition absurd.

This myth is tragic because it is heroic and conscious. Or what would be his sorrow for him to hope to succeed or sustain himself at each step? Or a hoje operative works every day of his life with the same tasks, and that destiny is no less absurd.
But it is tragic for us rare moments in which he becomes conscious. Sisyphus, proletarian two deuses, powerless and revolted, knows all to the extent of his miserly condition: he thinks about it during his descent. To the clarity that it should be or his torment of him consumes, at the same time, his vitória. There is no destiny that cannot be surpassed as contempt.

(Albert Camus, Or myth of Sisyphus)

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