There is an obvious note of despair and futility that goes through every episode of Sherwood Schwarz's miraculous sitcom "Giligan Island". Each episode begins with a new element that arrives in the tropical island of Castaways, the island's nest - radio, satellite, hot air balloon, a guest route for guests - deposited there as fate. The new Wild Card element of the week will allow Castaways to strengthen a way to escape, and most of the episode will mean how they build their means of exit. But then Illilligan (Bob Denver), an Okeroker of fate, would be stupid to strengthen the rescue in some way, often because of its own clutter or children's ignorance. Then, staying will return to despair, reiterating that they are condemned to remain on the island until they die.

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Giligan, in this description, can be described as an ancient, destructive folk deity. Illilligan is a cosmic obstacle to freedom, the power of nature that, with its construction, retains its compatriots imprisoned forever in hell. The Giligan Island cycle is depressed and futile. Hope arrives, Illilligan breaks hope, and despair returns. See you next week for another comic adventure.

You can easily see the myth of Sisyphus in the weekly rhythm of the Island Giligan. Sisyphus, as we all know, was damaged by Hades to eternally press stones on a hill. It was difficult, restoring labor and producing nothing; Once Boulder reached the top of the hill, it will only return down, forcing Sisyphus to start again. Sisyphus' futility was supposed to be the worst part of his subsequent punishment. Takinge tries forever and you will get anything from it.

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That's "Giligan Island". Every week, they push and try, thinking they are achieving something. Then their rock - in this case, Gilligan - rolls down the hill and should start again. Everything is in vain.

But then, the French philosopher Albert Camus had something to say about Sisyphus that could be relevant to find hope again in the Island Giligan.

We all probably read Camus document in 1942 "Myth of Sisyphus" In our philosophy 101 class college. In short, Camus watched Sisyphus as a promising figure, and the one we can learn a lot from. Camus claims that Sisyphus' work will be, after enough time, which he met. He compared Sisyphus's task to that of the modern factory worker, as they too have to perform repetitive tasks day and day out, often with nothing to show it. "It's tragic," wrote Camus, "only in rare moments when he gets aware."

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But Camus wanted to explore Sisyphus's real thinking while pushing that stone. He would see the rock not as an enemy, but as something that could have reached mastery. He will "make his rock". Sisyphus, he argues, will eventually have to inevitably accept the meaningless absurdity of his task and, as a result, just one kind of roll with it. Sisyphus can overcome the futility of life by recognizing that life is absurd and that it is within its rights to be sarcastic for it. "There is no fate," he wrote, "that cannot be overcome by contempt." You have to imagine Sisyphus happy.

"Giligan Island", remembers, is not a very realistic series. It is placed in a wide, farchic universe where the real concerns about survival are never resolved. The seven captured stays should never care for food or water, and their shelters are built. As Sisyphus in the successive world, there is no feeling of inevitable death. They already live in a clean state, and their bodies will never deteriorate. And, as Sisyphus, they are doomed to repeat the vainly repetitive task that will never bear fruit. In their case, it is the intention of escape.

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However, after enough time, if we need to extrapolate the lives of Castaways after the theories of Camus, they will eventually realize that their efforts will always end badly. They may understand - in an existential sense - that they live in a farce and that Giligan exists as their central barricade of happiness. The escape is meaningless ... and it can get rid of it. They will continue to try to escape, enjoying the thought and efforts they have made in every attempt. They will also know that Giligan will Definitely Blockage of their escape, and they will need to go back to the bottom of the mountain to start pushing the rock again.

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Only once they began to be recognized in a metanarative sense that they were pawns in the farce created by Hades - In their case, Sherwood Schwartz - Can they accept their destiny happily and enjoy the sense of acceptance of the content.

It can be noted that the waste really avoided their island prison TV Film in 1979 "The Island of Giligan Island", "" And he would continue to play basketball with Harlem Globtroters in the Harlem Globtroters on the island of Giligan, "but I will hasten to question the legitimacy of those films. In 1982, there seemed to have an animated series of Spinoff "Island" called "Giligan on the planet", in which Castaways built a rocket to avoid their island, just to start in the cosmos and become trapped in a distant foreign world. Even in a cosmic scale, the deviations were forged to remain isolated.

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The cessation must be opened to the gentle indifference of the universe. They will fight for our fun and remain trapped forever. But we must imagine them happy.