Camus further explains that habits cover up the obscure character of the world, where the world might seem as though it serves one’s purpose, the world really has nothing to do with one’s purposes, desires or interests. Here Camus explains that one can only become conscious by asking themselves ‘why’ they are doing what they are doing, usually this happens when one is unhappy, Camus expresses often in “The Myth of Sisyphus” that the human experience is not an easy one. Camus wrote about routine and waking up, “Rising, street-car, four hours in the office or factory, meal, street-car, four hours of work, meal, sleep, and Monday, Tuesday… According to the same rhythm – this path is easily followed… but one day the ‘why’ arises and everything begins in that weariness tinged with amazement”. The absurd is the realization that the world exists independently from any meaning that one attempts to give it. Here Camus is talking about the primitive hostility of the world, how dense and strange it is. That stage scenery masked by habit becomes again what it is”.

Camus wrote that “the world evades us because it becomes itself again. The absurd is described as the gap between oneself and one’s senses, who one thinks they are and the resistance of the world to human endeavors. The absurd is a theme that much of Albert Camus’ work revolves around.

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