Isolation And Existentialism In Sartre's No Exit

In Sartre’s play No exit, he addresses the existentialism theme of the human as a temporal being that could never be disclosed in isolation. He consider human beings as much more than their actions in the present and past because these are only significant when associated to the future. By being disclosed to isolation, Sartre implies that we are responsible for how other people see ourselves and for our actions, which impacts not only in our lives, but in everyone else’s. The sense of the temporal being is very much easy to be notice in the play. All the three characters, especially Garcin and Estelle, stop and confront themselves (or at least struggle with) confronting their past at some point of the plot. They begin to question why they …show more content…
Since they realize each of them is going to act like each other’s torturer, Garcin asks Estelle and Inez to stay in their respective sofas and that none of them three should have contact with one another because that would eventually lead them to suffering. To me a great example of how people can’t be disclosed to isolation is also the fact that the characters in No Exit are constantly seeking for each other to give meaning for their own lives. They are always looking at themselves through the eyes of other people. Garcin finds himself dissident of the judgments of his friend Gomez of him being a coward and a desertor. He turns to Estelle and Inez to judge him of what he wants to be considered and tries to explain the reasons for his actions. Inez however continue to judging him as a coward. Estelle says she supports him. He tells Estelle, then, if she sees him as a brave men, he will promise to lover for eternity. However she fails to accomplish that and he revolts and tries to leave the room. When the door open, he gives up leaving and explains he does so, because he needs to prove Inez he is a brave man. Estelle, on the other side, is desperate to find a mirror. She says not being able to bear living forever without something to look at herself, and that when without having a mirror to see her reflection, she always questions if does really exist. This is a clear example of how Estelle’s Character needs people’s constantly judging her. She is not concerned on being for herself anymore, but for being for others. She seeks desperately to be desired by Garcin, and at the end of the play, she stabs Inez in hope to achieve that. When the door finally opens, none of them leaves. That is because they understand that alone, they can’t get what they need. Estelle can’t get Garcin’s appreciation, and Garcin can’t prove to Inez he is not a corward. Inez has accepted the fact she is fated to