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The Myth of Sysyphus exploration - Coggle Diagram

- - - - The absurdity of Sisyphus and the task of pushing up his rock.
        
        happiness is a result of limitation to people that shows that not everything is horrible.
        
        The absurdity of living, happiness, the human need to have reason to live and need to attribute meaning to life.
        
        Just like Sisyphus, doing something for no greater achievement or goal doesn’t mean that one is not happy.
        
        The idea that a human is a blank slate in pursuit of life’s passions.
        
        When one realises that they are only the master of their own days, they glance back over their life, as Sisyphus glances over his rock.
- - - - Both texts are very philosophical
      - Both texts contain ideas about existentialism, absurdity, nihilism.
      - Both texts are fiction
      - Both texts involve dead people and death (mother’s death and Sisyphus)
      - Both are texts about deeper thought and makes the reader think about life.
      - This text brings some contrast to the stranger as the stranger wonders about life being pointless and not caring that his mother passed away whilst Sisyphus really enjoys life and doesn’t want to be dead, so he refuses to return to the underworld and gets severely punished.
      - both texts also mention about pointlessness in life as the MC doesn’t care about his mother’s death as he believes life is pointless and Sisyphus has to do pointless labour for the rest of life in the underworld which makes all his hard work pointless
      - In the stranger, the opening page shows our protagonist lamenting his mother's death. He is emotionally indifferent and distant when he contemplates the loss of his mother. He wants to feel something towards a huge event in his life, but he has been worn down by life and tragedy that he is having trouble feeling anything. However, in Sisyphus’ case, he was fuelled by greed and life's passions and did everything he could to cling to them. In his desperation, angering gods and choosing a fate of never-ending futile Labour. The contrast here is the absurdity of clinging to a life that has been already lost, clinging to a life at all is the essence of existentialism, whereas in the beginning of the stranger, he lacks the experience of life’s joys in order to want to cling onto life as he works a stress-ridden job where he feels sorry for taking a break from his work for person things
- - - - Lots of philosophic ideologies in the mix.
      - Nihilism is portrayed in the myth to show that the very act of Sisyphus trying to get the boulder to the top of the mountain merits nothing and shows that Sisyphus’ life is meaningless.
      - Existentialism of Sisyphus indulging in life’s passions without a defining essence to guide him just the sheer will to survive and thrive in this world is reminiscent of existentialism.
      - More relation to existentialism is When Sisyphus is granted permission to return to the land of the living by Pluto and experiences all of the passions of life again realizing the true value to life because of him taking it for granted
      - This links to the inevitability of doing a simple task again and again, hoping to see the end in sight. Or a different outcome to what you have previously experienced.