;s why I want the moon, or happiness, or eternal life- something, in fact, that may sound crazy, but which isn't of this world" (Camus 8). This quotation shows Camus' quest to find whether or not life is worth living if Caligula can never reach the impossible. The entire play is an attempt to answer that question. "It's just because no one dares to follow up his ideas to the end that nothing is achieved" (Camus 8). The reason Camus shows Caligula loving the moon as he does is to lead up to the strangling of his faithful mistress Caesonia so that he may achieve beyond love "the glorious isolation of man" and has searched for the im
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