P1+Are+all+absurdist's+doomed+to+toil+through+life+senselessly,+or+can+they+live+a+pleasant+life?

I believe that absurdist’s are kind of split between living a pleasant life and a senseless life. In Meursalts case he lived a senseless life he had a routine and all he did was fallow this routine for a long time. While in jail he begins to think on how he spent his life. "My mind was always on what was coming next, today or tomorrow" (//Camus 100//). This sentence proves that Meursault has lived thinking about what will happen tomorrow and do the same thing for the next day. He never really cared about his friends, his girlfriend, and his mother. He only cared about tomorrow and not breaking that routine. Since he is in jail, he can’t do his routine and know he has time to himself. Meursault was so absurd about his life and in the end he lived not being able to see the beauty of life. -Danielle T.

7. Absurdists are not doomed to toil through life senselessly. They can live a strong and happy life, just with a different take on it. Meursault explains his stance on life by saying “every man alive was privileged; there was only one class of men, the privileged class. All alike would be condemned to die one day; his turn, too, would come like the others” (Camus 75). He understands that life has no purpose other than death, and that this is the only truth that man can know. This does no mean that everything in between is pointless. He states that all men were privileged because all living men were alive. This brings to mind that living is the greatest joy that anybody can have because it gives humanity an opportunity to survive. It is absurd that anybody lives to die, but it does not mean that the time between cannot be spent joyfully. An absurdist can live a happy life, they just wander through it without looking for meaning to that which does not matter. - Tovi F. Johnson

7. Absurdists are doomed to walk through life senselessly due to their inability to find meaning and purpose. This is proven through Meursault's constant routines. "Then I went home and slept for a while because I'd drunk too much wine, and when I woke up I felt like having a smoke. It was late and I ran to catch a streetcar. I worked all afternoon. It got very hot in the office, and that evening, when I left, I was glad to walk back slowly along the docks. The sky was green; I felt good. But I went straight home because I wanted to boil myself some potatoes" (Camus 26). He is living his life without any meaning because he goes through different activities without caring about them at all. For example, he sleeps because he had "drunk too much wine", he feels like he must sleep because he drank too much but he really doesn't care about sleeping. He runs because he is late to "catch a streetcar". At one point he does state that he "felt good", but forgets about this emotion when he figures out something else to do which shows that things that bring him good feelings are still pointless. Meursault is a prime example that absurdists are doomed to live their lives senselessly. -Sarah Nadal