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No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre in which three people are condemned to spend eternity together in the same room as retribution for their sins. The play explores the questions of responsibility and freedom, and the human condition takes a whole new dimension as we discover that “hell is others”. Sartre was a renowned French existentialist philosopher and his works deal with important themes including morality and social assumptions. His novels and plays often provoked debates and controversy due to Sartre's strongly opinionated views, and many of these discussions rage on to this day.
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Jean-Paul Sartre
French philosopher & writer
Born in Paris in 1905Died there in 1980Notable works:Nausea (1938), novelNo Exit (1944), playExistentialism is a Humanism (1946), philosophical essayJean-Paul Sartre was a French writer and philosopher who was born in Paris in 1905 and died in 1980. Both celebrated and dismissed for his existentialist thinking, he wrote several essays, such as Being and Nothingness (1943) and Existentialism is a Humanism (1946). He also wrote numerous literary texts in which he strongly illustrated his philosophy and his definition of literature: Nausea, a novel published in 1943, The Flies, a play published in 1943, and No Exit, published in 1944. In 1964, he declined the Nobel Prize in Literature and published The Words, an autobiographical narrative of his youth. Also known for being the companion of Simone de Beauvoir (French writer, 1908-1986), Sartre is remembered as much for his activity as a writer as for his extreme left political engagement.
No Exit
“Hell is other people”: an existential reflection
Genre: playReference edition: Sartre, J-P. (1958) No Exit: A Play in One Act. New York: Samuel French, Ltd.First edition: 1944Themes: victim-tormentor, responsibility, freedom, others, look, sufferingWritten in 1943 and first performed in 1944, No Exit is a play that illustrates the existentialist theses. Sartre presents three people locked in the same room and forced to live together for all eternity. They quickly realize their differences and become aware of the image they give of themselves through the look of others. This image is unbearable, and, despite their best efforts, they cannot escape from it. In the end, it becomes clear that, for Sartre, “Hell is other people”, or rather, the way that others perceive us.
In this play, Sartre also emphasizes the themes of responsibility and the necessity of political engagement, which, for him, are the direct consequences of mankind’s freedom.
