The Revolt in Albert Camus

• Main Authors: Mei-Fen YUAN, 袁梅芬
• Other Authors: Hsi-Deh WU
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/25759108166690058580

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 法國語文學系碩士班 === 94 === Camus wrote down in his Notebooks of 1950, subscribed the next three subjects for his own writing plan: «I. The Myth of Sisyphus (absurd) — II. The Myth of Prometheus (revolt) — III. The Myth of Nemesis » But, Camus didn’t write down the main thought in the third stage. We attempt to deliberate the relations between “the absurd”, “the revolt” with Sisyphus and Prometheus. Nemesis in final chapter of the Rebel, represents a kind of the spirit which is called “the moderation”, but this spirit is precisely continues the life manner of “the revolt” stage. This paper attempted to union “the limit” with the image of Nemesis, therefore we saw Camus’ three-stage writing plan turns: « I. The Myth of Sisyphus (absurd) — II. The Myth of Prometheus (revolt) — III. The Myth of Nemesis. (limit) ». In addition, in these discussions of “the absurd” and “the existence”, we realized that from the differences of each stage’s experience; “the revolt” has the different performance pattern, as well as different goals. Therefore, we started to discuss from these two philosophy works (the Myth of Sisypus and the Rebel), and attempted to discover the logic of “the revolt” in each stage. Furthermore, through the character''s image (Sisyphus, Prometheus, and Nemesis) in the ancient Greek mythology story, we deduced from the three kinds of models of “the revolt” (absurd, revolt, and limit), and further discussed the process of “the revolt” in Camus. This thesis divides into four chapters: Chapter one is “the formation of the revolt”, describe the historicity of “the revolt”. Chapter two “the connotation of the revolt”, and chapter three “the model of the revolt”, we discussed what is “the revolt” in Camus from these two philosophy works and three novels (the Stranger, the Plague, and the Fall ). Last but not the least, chapter four, “the spirit of the time in the revolt”, we discussed Camus’ “revolt" and his opinions by the experiences in his life.