1. 1. Write down any questions,
comments, observations you have
about “The Myth of Sisyphus”

2. 2. “The unexamined life is not
worth living Plato

3. 3. Tell me what you remember
about “The Allegory of the
Cave”

4. 4. Write down – on your notes –
what it is that you are looking
forward to – in a bigger sense
(ie college, summer, etc.)

5. 5. Now – tell me what the myth
of Sisyphus (the myth not the
essay). Why was he condemned?
What did he have to do?

6. 5b . Let’s break his punishment
down into 3 parts – what are they?
No don’t raise you hands…

7. Pushing the Rock up the Hill
no memory

8. Triumph!
a glimpse, a gleam

9. Defeat – return to the base
memory

10. 6. Albert Camus: “There is in me
an invincible summer.” What
do you think this means? Why?
remember this when reading
Stuart Little and his canoe…

11. What is it you looked forward
to freshman year? 8th grade?
6th grade? 1st grade?

12. 8. For Camus what is the moment
Of Sisyphus’s triumph?

13. The moment of contemplation…
Why?
What about Oedipus? Why and
When?

14. Going back to #7 – what
happened at each of those times
In your life?

15. What will happen the next
time?
Is that a bad thing?

16. How are our lives like that
of Sisyphus?

17. Therefore – where is our
triumph?
Are our entire lives commited
To accomplishing nothing?

18. 11. Do we? Do we contemplate?

19. Rambo’s Barber

20. 12. What is it that Sisyphus
Contemplates? The struggle?
The joy in the struggle?
“the wholly human security”

21. How often in our lives do we
realize the impossible nature
of our struggle...?

22. We are the sum of our deeds.

23. How do We put “death in chains?”

24. “the struggle itself towards
the heights…”

25. 15. Look at the books and
Characters we’ve studied…

26. What has this class been,
If not the contemplation
Of our absurd, heroic, struggle?

27. World Literature – War
&
Struggle…

28. 17. Listen – and follow along…