Camus' piece, "The Myth of Sisyphus", illustrates that happiness that can be found in what is generally deemed mundane and uninteresting. Despite being condemned to toil pointlessly for eternity, Sisyphus attains a higher moral ground and thus is superior to the gods. He likens the workingman's plight to that of Sisyphus, a man who on multiple occasions made himself not only equal but greater than the gods.
             Sisyphus was condemned to roll a stone to the top of a hill for the rest of eternity because he had transgressed against the gods and disregarded their rules and decrees. In the same fashion, the average man is condemned to toil everyday at various undesirable tasks and to make his way in the world, not because he has transgressed against the gods, but merely because he does not have the powers of the mythical beings. Despite what a man may say, he does not want to work for his livelihood; working to achieve a personal goal carries greater satisfaction than accomplishing a requirement.
             Man also desires knowledge of his accomplishments to reach others in order to extend his satisfaction. Sisyphus not only was displayed to everyone who entered into the underworld, but each day, as the gods willed the stone back down the hill, they were forced to remember the anguish he caused them and to recognize his cunning. In the same fashion, an innovative man in his field will be recognized every time another person uses his technique.
             Here Camus introduces an interesting point. Each day as Sisyphus is returning to the base of the hill, Camus says, "[he] leaves the heights and gradually sinks toward the lairs of the gods," (1278). Not only is Sisyphus an eternal thorn in Olympus' side, Camus puts him above the gods, sinking to their level to toil and at the end of the day triumphing over and above them when his task is accomplished. Thus, it can be concluded that the mortal t
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