The Intolerableness of All Earthly Effort : of Futility and Ahab as the Absurd Hero in Melville's Moby Dick

• Main Author: Mittermaier, Sten
• Format: Bachelor Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen 2008
• Subjects: Herman Melville Albert Camus Moby Dick futility absurdism human condition; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Ahab; Camus; White whale
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-8324

In 1942, Algerian writer Albert Camus published a philosophical essay called The Myth of Sisyphus along with a fictional counterpart, The Stranger, wherein he presumed the human condition to be an absurd one. This, Camus claimed, was the result of the absence of a god, and consequently of any meanin...