No Exit

Dante’s Inferno by Dante Alighieri and No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre both highlight the punishment experienced by sinners in hell, but since these stories are written nearly 750 years apart and come from two completely different places, No Exit being first performed in France in 1944 and Dante’s Inferno being written in 1300’s by a medieval Italian man, the stories vary in their telling of how hell is like and how sinners are punished in hell. In No Exit the Sinners are psychologically tortured…

standing point. They can also help resolve problems or issues that is currently being faced. The four different responses to conflict are: exit, loyalty, neglect, and voice. An exit response is just as it sounds; when you either physically or mentally withdrawn from the conflict. This entails to walking away from the conflict, or psychologically leaving it. Exit responses are lose-lose situations. A neglect response is when you…

Is Banksy’s film “Exit Through the Gift Shop” considered a documentary or hoax? Many viewers have been contemplating this unfathomable conundrum ever since its release. I believe the film to be precise in its credence. According to movie critic Roger Ebert, “The widespread speculation that “Exit Through the Gift Shop” is a hoax only adds to its fascination” (rogerebert.com). Ebert explains his point of view by stating how the film could be ideated as inconceivably true. IT IS DIFFICULT TO ACCEPT…

DeCarlo & Wodziak Per 4/5 Exit Activity Interactions and reactions define who you become because of people that don’t look at you from the inside, they inspect you from the outside. An example of this if you were goofy and weird at a game of baseball and someone thought you were cool and wanted to hang out with you. But, since you were weird that one person does not want to hang out with you because they think you are that weird. Another example is if you were stealing money from a lady or…

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…

Question 2 Since the beginning of philosophy love has been the subject of many pieces of writing. Thomas Merton’s Love and Need, Plato’s Symposium, and Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit, include thoughts on pivotal ideas regarding love. Some of the thoughts described in these pieces are common among the three, however each piece presents a unique idea not common to the other. Thomas Merton’s Love and Need begins with a criticism of the term “falling in love”. He says that this expression implies a…

No Exit Analysis First and foremost, the title of Jean-Paul Sartre’s play No Exit is a subtle yet overt foreshadowing of the underlying existentialist philosophy present in the text; being that, within existence, there is no escape from the inherent burden felt due to the conflicts of man’s unfathomably absolute freedom, and the weight of responsibility for each action one makes under the weight of our human condition. We are the Gods of our own values; only we have the power to create them.…

One of the misconceptions about hell that Sartre touches upon in No Exit is that it is typically imagined as a place of pitchforks and fire – a place based more on physical torture than mental. In the case of Sartre’s hell, Garcin suffers a hell that is mostly psychological, with Inez and Estelle being the sources of his torment. In my opinion, these are the two forms of hell that could exist – physical and psychological torment. One of them provides a tangible feeling that a person suffers and…

The Hell of No Exit Existentialism has always been a new way to view life. To live – to exist – without context, without labels, without definitions given by everyone else is a notion that is relieving for some and distressing for others. Written by Jean-Paul Sartre in 1944, the French play No Exit, paints a vivid and imaginative picture of an existentialist’s hell. By trapping one’s greatest fears in a room for eternity, Sartre’s intricately woven depiction of modern Hell introduces a new…

“Hell is - other people!” (No Exit, 45). This line serves as the main structure of existential philosophy. Existentialist philosophy is based on the belief that a person makes their own decisions and is responsible for the consequences of those actions and choices. “GARCIN: A man is what he wills himself to be” (No Exit, 43). However, existential philosophy can be seen in many different lights, as it occasionally contradicts itself. For example, existentialist philosophy states that one man…