THE MONOMANIA OF A MOON FOR FREEDOM. ALBERT CAMUS, “CALIGULA” [4.14]

Abstract

The text focuses on the last scene of the fourth act of the play “Caligula” (1944) by Albert Camus, whose aim is to function as an example through which to introduce the discourse of absurdism insisted upon by Camus, and at the same time to combine it with Jean-Paul Sartre's notion of existentialism. The central research question regards the theme of freedom thought through fear, selfreflection and the concept of the Self and the Other.