Embracing the absurd is to accept the futility of our search for meaning and the fact that life is intrinsically meaningless and to “revolt.” More specifically, Camus formulates a way of living that supposedly doesn’t seek escape from that the fact that life is meaningless.

Camus defined the absurd as the futility of a search for meaning in an incomprehensible universe, devoid of God, or meaning. Absurdism arises out of the tension between our desire for order, meaning and happiness and, on the other hand, the indifferent natural universe’s refusal to provide that.

By embracing the absurd, we are committing an act of revolution against the absence of meaning in life. He states not just that there is no meaning, but also provides a way to positively cope with it. We must accept the absurd, not because we hope we’re wrong, but because we know we are right.

Living with the absurd, Camus suggests, is a matter of facing this fundamental contradiction and maintaining constant awareness of it. Facing the absurd does not entail suicide, but, on the contrary, allows us to live life to its fullest. Absurd art does not try to explain experience, but simply describes it.

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 these with any certainty.

Absurdism as a philosophy refers to the fundamental nature of conflict in human tendency to find meaning and inherent value in life and inability in the same in a purposeless existence in an irrational universe.

Something absurd is really silly, absolutely ridiculous, or total nonsense. Thinking you can wear flip flops and a bikini to the North Pole is an absurd idea, for example. If you run into someone dressed in an absurd outfit or watch a movie full of absurd jokes, you’ll probably have a good laugh.

If we grant Camus that we do occupy this absurd space of yearning but never finding, it could be said that almost all of our concerns simply don’t matter, for on this view all of our beliefs, thoughts, and actions towards the world become trivial and meaningless. We are all Sisyphus, pointlessly rolling our boulders.

Sisyphus teaches us to never give in to circumstantial disappointments or try to escape from the failures, rather accept failures the same way we accept our achievements. And most importantly, no matter how much we lose in our quest, we must never back down till we fulfill our potential.

Sisyphus is the symbol of modern man, capable of attaining consciousness that his existence is absurd. In this way, Sisyphus the symbolic incarnation of modern man suffering from an existential crisis who looks to the absurdity of life as a means of salvation.

Camus identifies Sisyphus as the archetypal absurd hero, both for his behavior on earth and for his punishment in the underworld. He displays scorn for the gods, a hatred of death, and a passion for life. His punishment is to endure an eternity of hopeless struggle.

Sisyphus (or Sisyphos) is a figure from Greek mythology who, as king of Corinth, became infamous for his general trickery and twice cheating death. He ultimately got his comeuppance when Zeus dealt him the eternal punishment of forever rolling a boulder up a hill in the depths of Hades.

Punishment in the underworld As a punishment for his trickery, Hades made Sisyphus roll a huge boulder endlessly up a steep hill. The maddening nature of the punishment was reserved for Sisyphus due to his hubristic belief that his cleverness surpassed that of Zeus himself.

Once Sisyphus is in the Underworld again, he complains to Persephone that his wife was disrespectful and didn’t give him a proper burial. He begs the queen of the Underworld to let him go back to the land of the living to punish his disrespectful wife.

Sisyphus is a former king sentenced to an eternity of punishment within Tartarus for attempting to cheat death. He succeeded twice, each time only temporarily before the consequences caught up with him.

Loki

Having been lied to all his life, Loki sought to kill Asgard’s greatest enemy, the Frost Giants – his actual people – to prove his competence to his adopted father, Odin. He was a misguided antagonist and a foil to Thor, yes. But to call Loki a “villain” would be too simple and frankly too uncharitable.

Thor defeats her in the end, watching from afar as she goes up in flames along with Asgard, but just because he prevailed doesn’t mean Hela is really dead in Thor: Ragnarok.

There is no explanation of Loki’s small size as compared to Frost Giants but in comics Laufey kept him hidden from his people, ashamed of his son’s small size. Laufey was the king of the frost giants, and so naturally he was huge, even for a frost giant.

During an escapade in which he had taken the form of a mare, Loki was impregnated by a stallion called Svadilfari. Some time later, Loki birthed Sleipnir, the eight-legged horse, who was to become Odin’s favorite mount.

Thor is 30 years old in human terms. 1,070/5,000. Loki is 21.4 years old compared to a human.

Odin transforming Loki’s appearance Loki was born on Jotunheim as the son of the Frost Giant King, Laufey. Small and weak for a Frost Giant, Loki was abandoned by his father in a temple, being left to die. In 965 A.D., not long after the war between the Giants and the Asgardians, Loki was found by King Odin.