An essay on…the foreigner; The Absurd "One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all And in Darkness bind them" (The Lord of the Rings Volume II, The Council of Elrond) Within the Foreigner, Albert Camus raised many questions and some answers. He created an outsider and showed us how he lived, Meursault. Meursault has always been indifferent. Meursault accepted death. For what? Meursault saw the purpose of life as meaningless. This is “absurdity”! Absurdity, what does this word say? Pretty bad, huh? Absurdity when used as "that's absurd!" gives a feeling of negative judgment and a sense of finality. The idea of ​​the absurd seems to attach itself to meaningless, useless and other words that express a destination but without the means to get there and vice versa, means but no destination. I therefore infer that Camus does not believe in God or in any high law or universal law associated with a deity, which is a path in life (either the means or the destination). So what is absurd? The Absurd is alive, a quest to find the meaning of anything in a purposeless reality. Reality has no purpose because there is no high law, universal law, or God. This reality must therefore be random. I believe Camus wants us to see this and begin to question our existence. So he wants us to see the absurdity and face the absurdity. If there is no point in living, why do we continue to live? If this reality is absurd, why not recognize it and commit suicide? Committing suicide shows the lack of will or reasons to live and also the uselessness of suffering. So what is it to live? Living is absurd. Living is despair. To live is to keep the absurd alive. To bring the absurd to life, you just have to experience the absurd. “Life will be more fully lived to the extent that it has no meaning.” is a quote from Camus which shows this. Camus shows that we can “hope” for the best without hope. “Hope” is not the same thing as hope. “Hope” is optimism. Freedom from hope is freedom for your soul. You can no longer hurt yourself while living. It's hard to believe that being desperate leads to living, but living is imprisonment. We try to be the best we can be, but life doesn't limit us?