In the depth of the winter, I finally learned within me there lay an invincible summer.” 2 In order to demonstrate that rebellion is an action that aims at the good of mankind in the face of absurdity, Camus uses the rest of his book to unmask action that claims to be rebellious, but proves to be destructive. In Camus’ humanism man must look within and without in order to feel relief from his suffering in seeing himself as part of the whole of mankind: “When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken the light on the faces surrounding him. In the darkness of an apparently meaningless universe, Camus is presenting a new humanism. Then man is concerned with hope.” 1 Rebellion in the face of absurdity finds hope in the beauty of solidarity which is rooted in the dignity of man, namely, that there is value in human life. He encounters the universe out of a strange love and a need for something in which he can place his hope: “a moment comes when the creation ceases to be taken tragically it is merely taken seriously. In The Rebel man must accept and seek to encounter the universe as it presents itself in absurdity.
Man in his search for meaning-everyman- is Albert Camus’ rebel.
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