Jean Paul Sartre No Exit Essay
3 October 2013
Jean Paul Sartre was a French playwright, philosopher, existentialist, and novelist who wrote No Exit, on top of many other productions. This particular play is based in Hell, where the main characters are forced to reflect upon their malevolent life decisions. Estelle is a character who murdered her infant that she had with the man whom she cheated on her husband with. This lead the father of the baby to commit suicide. Inez, a manipulative sadist, managed to turn her cousin’s wife against him for the sole purpose of torturing him. Garcin is a coward who is abusive to his wife, although he is the only character who seems to have any shred of righteousness. These characters may be a representation of some aspect of Sartre’s life. One major factor of Jean Paul’s life was the draft. In 1939 he was sent to fight in World …show more content…
“Man is condemned to freedom, a freedom from all authority, which he may seek to evade, distort, and deny but which he will have to face if he is to become a moral being.” (NobelPrize.org) This is true for Garcin, because even after his many attempts to distort the truth about his past, he had to face the reality of his decisions.
Works Cited
Dolezal, Luna. "Reconsidering The Look In Sartre 's: Being And Nothingness." Sartre Studies International 18.1 (2012): 9-28.
Pihlainen, Kalle. "Representing Identities: Transforming Acts Into Gestures?." Rethinking History 7.3 (2003): 307-313.
Rizzo, Frank. “No Exit: A Different Slant to Hell.” Hartford Stage 's Moving Platform Changes Perspective Of Sartre 's Play (2006)
Johnson, Barry. “Imago 's Jerry Mouawad does 'No Exit ' and does it his way” (2006)
"Jean-Paul Sartre - Biographical". Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2013. Web. 2 Oct 2013. <http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1964/sartre-bio.html>
“No Exit”
Jean Paul Sartre was a French playwright, philosopher, existentialist, and novelist who wrote No Exit, on top of many other productions. This particular play is based in Hell, where the main characters are forced to reflect upon their malevolent life decisions. Estelle is a character who murdered her infant that she had with the man whom she cheated on her husband with. This lead the father of the baby to commit suicide. Inez, a manipulative sadist, managed to turn her cousin’s wife against him for the sole purpose of torturing him. Garcin is a coward who is abusive to his wife, although he is the only character who seems to have any shred of righteousness. These characters may be a representation of some aspect of Sartre’s life. One major factor of Jean Paul’s life was the draft. In 1939 he was sent to fight in World …show more content…
“Man is condemned to freedom, a freedom from all authority, which he may seek to evade, distort, and deny but which he will have to face if he is to become a moral being.” (NobelPrize.org) This is true for Garcin, because even after his many attempts to distort the truth about his past, he had to face the reality of his decisions.
Works Cited
Dolezal, Luna. "Reconsidering The Look In Sartre 's: Being And Nothingness." Sartre Studies International 18.1 (2012): 9-28.
Pihlainen, Kalle. "Representing Identities: Transforming Acts Into Gestures?." Rethinking History 7.3 (2003): 307-313.
Rizzo, Frank. “No Exit: A Different Slant to Hell.” Hartford Stage 's Moving Platform Changes Perspective Of Sartre 's Play (2006)
Johnson, Barry. “Imago 's Jerry Mouawad does 'No Exit ' and does it his way” (2006)
"Jean-Paul Sartre - Biographical". Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2013. Web. 2 Oct 2013. <http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1964/sartre-bio.html>
“No Exit”