sartre majorly talks about the concept of freedom in his works and states we are free because we are not a self an in-itself but a presence to-self. this implies that we are other to ourselves existentialism 2009 this inner indifference or distance forms the freedom- the definition of an individual and sartre believes that along with this freedom comes the responsibility over an individual of his actionsand decisions but the ignorance of that responsibility results in alienation. he states we ourselves are responsible for our world and our choices. but when we refuse this responsibility alienation happens. existentialism 2009 sartre believes that when an individual becomes ignorant of his responsibilities being a free man of free will then alienation occurs. sartre in notebooks for an ethics mentions that one aspect of alienation is ignorance.is a finite but not limited positively my freedom is still completely there sartre 294 robert tally also explains the condition of alienation in an individual through his article where he states that alienation is a condition of being estrangedfrom someone or something.alienation refers to a persons psychological withdrawal from society. he further explains the theme of alienation in the sense that the alienated individual is isolated from other people.alienation has an additional sense of separating the individual from his or herself a fragmentation of ones self through work tally 2 sartre believes that alienation is not the oppression rather it is the dominance of the other on an individual which dominates the inner self of an individual and forces the individual to see its reflection in the other which makes an individual objectified and he returns to the society in a state of alienation and stay in isolation. sartre states it is the predominance of the other in the pair other .return to their promoters as alienated and alienating and believes thatthe alienated person is also completely outside of alienation.is also alienated in the mode of having to be so wholly in his ideas and wholly outside of them sartre 1992: 413 camus on the other hand gives the concept of absurd. his most philosophical essay myth ofsisyphus majorly explains his philosophy of absurd in detail but this essay was published much later than his novel the stranger wherehe depicts the state of absurd in an individuals life or the absurd existence of an individual. the reason of publishing the novel first could be in order to make public understand the feeling of absurdity before the prior understanding facts and explanation and of the philosophy of absurd. he desired that man should become disoriented or divorced from the reality they know and must understand and recognise that the reality means that you as living being exist and the death is approaching which is inevitable. according to camus these are the only abstractions and truths which do not exist now. a man should extinguish all his goals hopes and longings. in the feeling of absurd the meaning of the life of an individual becomes opaque and the significance of his life vanishes. man is only left with his life universe and death. camus in order to explain the absurdity of life first raises the question in myth of sisyphus whether life if worth living or not as all other questions are secondary about life in front of this fundamental question. so in order to understand he tries to explore what is the meaning of life camus 1942: 4 but before he answers his own question he assumes a situation that a man does not have any meaning in his life therefore he consider suicide because he states killing yourself amounts to confessing that life is not worth the trouble 5 camus introduces the concept of absurd as a person who suddenly feels lack of illusion and light in his life andbecomes alien or strange to himself and the things around him. when he becomes strange or alien to his daily routine surroundings like roquentin nausea as jean-paul sartres concept of nausea in nausea is also seen as camus concept of absurd. camus believes that a man only becomes conscious of his meaningless existence when he recognizes the absurd the strangeness the feeling of being alien in familiar surroundings or to familiar things. this strangeness generally occurs when man becomes tired mentally and physically and starts to recognise the absurd nature of his existence at odd times and in odd places when he is not able to find the beauty of nature and the world becomes incoherent and strange. camus believes that when man face the absurdities of life or recognises the absurd he gets on to the journey of searching the truth. in that journey he re-evaluates all he know along with his morals beliefs and his existence. all these aspects become questionable to him. during his journey of searching the truth he finds the world full of paradoxes and contradictions but he continues his journey to find truth because according to camus the minds deepest desire.parallels mans unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon familiarity an appetite for clarity 17 man in the most confusedand unconscious situation desires to find meaning in his life and in the world. camus perfected his philosophy of the absurd during his lifetime and also incorporates the major aspects of existentialism in his works which present the idea of the absurd. according to adele king the novels are not the medium to preach but is a medium or a platform where the grave matters can be handled comically and lightly so as to be felt distant. camus and sartres works emphasise mans freedom and freedom where no bad or good choices are made. adele king states mans desires conflict with the indifference of the universe 56 and sartre states that the absurdity is the splitbetween mans search for unity and the conflict between mind and nature and the split between mans affinity with infinity and the finite character of his existence 109 when discussing about the absurd it deals with the truth chance death beauty of nature unintelligibility of reality and revolt all of which characteristics are
