No Exit Oedipus Analysis

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Two works have similarities, as well as difference. No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre, in addition to Oedipus Tyrannus by Sophocles, both of theses works have different prospectives’ on fate, and free will. No Exit is based on three main characters Garcin, Estelle, and Inez all of these charters have made bad life choices in life, thus they pay for the consequences in hell. Garcin is a coward, stuck-up, lastly, he complains a lot, he feels that everyone should feel sorry for him. Estelle, loves attention from men. Inez, is the type of person who wants to be in control of people, and make one’s life extremely miserable. Throughout the play Oedipus Tyrannus, Oedipus is fated to be a king, and under him being king his city fall apart, on the other hand it was his free will to not blame the heart aches on the gods. No Exit is based on three main Characters Garcin, Inez, lastly Estelle. The three of them are placed in this room with three couches, and with the absent of a window, and mirror, lastly a single locked door. These characters also have no eyes; thus, they have to look at each other for all eternity. When all of the main …show more content…
Estelle was having an affair with her husband, and she was married to him for many years. When she became pregnant with her husband, she decides to go off to Switzerland, and she secretly gave birth. In an act so, bizarre she drowns her baby, while her lover was watching. As a result, he shot himself. She is very opinionated person when she first arrived in the room she immediately commented on the arrangement of the furniture, in addition to having no mirror in the room, thus she could put her makeup on. She is “boy crazy” she always wants attention from men, so she always wasn’t Garcin attention, and when Garcin tried to talk to Inez she doesn’t like it at all, Estelle even tried to kill Inez, but that did not work because they are already

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