P4+GL+The+Road+Absurdism

__**Historical:**__

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 * 2. Absurdism **
 * 3. Louis Culp **
 * 4.Absurdists from the past are not much different than they are now. From the mid 1800’s even to now, what absurdists do and believe are close to what they did back then. Even living in the best places, one might be an absurdist. What one might do as an absurdist is to drink too much and laugh at the government. Research says “ It helped to be Jarry, a studied eccentric among others of the avant-garde, who drank too much, scorned the middle class and the government too much, laughed at the emptiness and greed around them which can never be done too much” (Alfred Jarry Theodocious). Absurdists did what they could since they didn’t have nearly as much advancements in technology as they do today. As told by Howard Van Sherwood “So he became vehemently anti-military, anti-authority, anti-bourgeois, and anti-male supremacy” (Eugen Ionescu Sherwood). There are still modern ways to be an absurdist, most are similar to what one may do today. **


 * 5. Theodocious. "Alfred Jarry." Absurdist Monthly Review. N.p., 2007. Web. 10 Oct. 2013. **
 * Sherwood, Howard Van. "Eugen Ionescu." (Eugene Ionesco). N.p., 2007. Web. 10 Oct. 2013. **

__** Aim: **__

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 * 2. Absurdism **
 * 3. Andrew Downard **
 * 4. In The Absurd Man, Albert Camus’ purpose is to explain and give examples of absurdism in life. This purpose is explicitly stated in his last paragraph, “For the moment I want to speak only of a world in which thoughts, like lives, are devoid of future” (The Absurd Man Camus). This is the very definition of absurdism. A consistent “green word” that future, this is due to the relevance of absurdist people being careless, but not foreign to, of future events. Throughout Camus gives various examples of absurdism throughout history. An example of this is, “Mme Roland is indifferent to posterity” (The Absurd Man Camus). Posterity meaning future generations, therefore she was absurd because she saw the universe as chaotic and purposeless therefore care in the matter of future is pointless. This was accompanied by, “That innocence is to be feared. "Everything is permitted," exclaims Ivan Karamazov. That, too, smacks of the absurd” (The Absurd Man Camus). This quote explains itself however that quote from Ivan Karamazov may not have been representative of his views on the topic. **


 * 5. Camus, Albert. The Myth of Sisyphus. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1975. Print. **


 * __Culture:__ **

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 * 2. Absurdism **
 * 3. Zekeriya **
 * 4. In modern culture absurdism is prevalent in modern culture. It is used in most comedy forms of media. It is a brand of comedy but is also a way of looking at life. The wikipedia article on absurdism says, “ In philosophy, "the Absurd" refers to the conflict between the human tendency to seek inherent value and meaning in life and the human inability to find any” (Wikipedia 1). This shows that even though absurdism can be funny it can also be taken very seriously. Absurdism is the cultural belief that the universe and everything in it has no purpose, it is in that sense similar to anarchy but not as simple. Absurdist humor often does not make any sense to the common man. **


 * 5. "Absurdism." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 10 May 2013. Web. 11 Oct. 2013. **

__Audience:__

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 * 2. Absurdism **
 * 3. Matt Favela **
 * 4. The Absurd refers to the conflict between the human tendency to seek [|inherent value] and [|meaning in life] and the human inability to not believe that anything is valued to be there. In this context, absurdism means "humanly impossible". Absurdism wants to confront the crisis that humans face. In The Myth of Sisyphus, it tells how absurdism can cause people to have different beliefs and make people not want rules. Showing the different beliefs that the people of absurdism are not wanting to deal with anything in the world, “How should the absurd man live? Clearly, no ethical rules apply, as they are all based on higher powers or on justification” (The Myth of Sisyphus Camus). The world is not absurd, nor is it a human thought: the absurd is when a human needs to understand the unreasonableness of the world and it’s meaning. Suicide thoughts of people that believe in absurdism is an audience because they believe that suicide is the only way to get out of absurdism or to end their lives. Demoniac madness is the way of belief that the absurdism people believe in because they don't only take absurdism as “no-rules,’’ but a way to make madness. **


 * 5. "The Myth of Sisyphus." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 10 Nov. 2013. Web. 11 Oct. **
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