Jean-Paul Sartre and No Exit

Garcin says his wife

Admired him too much

After World War II Sartre

Along with Hemmingway and Fitzgerald were seen as leading interpreters of post world war

In 1945 Jean-Paul Sartre

Came to the United States and criticized everything that was American

Inez will not let Garcin

Choose her hell, Choosing is an existentialist belief

Types of sins

Commission- ones you commit, Ommission- ones you allow to happen

Jean-Paul Sartre was considered

Considered a brilliant student destined for fame, introduced existentialism to general population

No Exit (Huis Clos)

Dead end is the direct translation written in 1944, translated in 1946

Terrible triangle is

Estelle wants Garcin to notice her, Inez- wants estelle, Garcin wants silence

In Being and Nothingness existence occurs in a

Exist in a godless universe

Bogus=

False

Inez had an affair with

Florence

Estelle

Full name Estelle Rigault, from Paris/France, Died from Pneumonia, she is vain, upbeat, lies/can't face reality, married for money, unfaithful. Upper class.

Inez

Full name Inez Serrano, From Paris/France, was a Post office clerk, killed by the fumes from her gas stove by Florence (must have known he was doing it- suicide). She is mean, impolite, abrupt, lesbian. Low working class.

Inez is jealous of

Garcin

In Being and Nothingness Human Life

Has no purpose beyond the goals each man sets

Inez sees

Her apartment for rent

Estelle sees

Her funeral: friend- no tears, sister- trying to cry, Husband- home prostrate with grief. Olga after the funeral.

Jean-Paul Sartre was drafted

In 1939 into the French army. He was tagged as a meteorologist, caught and imprisoned in Germany, Escaped in 1941

Jean-Paul Sartre was born

In Paris in 1905

Florence is

Inez's cousins wife

Estelle committed

Infanticide- threw her baby in a lake, Roger killed himself because of it

Simone de Beauvoir

Lifelong companion, well known writer, feminist, met in 1929 and spent their years together

Know examples of irony

Lights are on in hell, Bell doesn't ring, torturer is themselves, Garcin always talks about his life but he is dead

Drawing room

Living room

Garcin

Name is Joseph Garcin, comes from Rio/Brazil, Journalist, dies due to a firing squad (12 bullets in chest). He is fraudulent, ego-centric and hypocritical. Middle class. Had a mistress.

Jean-Paul Sartre was a

Playwright, Existential philosopher and literary critic

Estelle committed adultery with

Roger

Inez and Garcin are

Sadistic

In the 1930's Jean-Paul Sartre

Spent a lot of time on the left bank of the Seine and became part of the café society

From 1931-1945 Jean-Paul Sartre

Taught Philosophy and literature

Plato's unities

Time- action=time it takes to present or act the play (minute for minute in actual time) no longer than 24 hours Place- 1 setting Action- Should be all comedy (rebirth/marriage) or all tragedy (Death).

Garcin sees

Wife at barracks looking for him, Newspaper office

Being and Nothingness

Written by Jean-Paul Sartre in 1943, set out his philosophical system

Garcin is a bogus person in

a bogus environment

The characters are physically dead but

are still connected to the world by people talking about them.

Garcin was a

deserter- committed treason, alcoholic who cheated on his wife, enjoyed making her suffer (sadistic)

In Being and Nothingness responsibility is for

emotional lives

To let

for rent

Jean-Paul Sartre won the Nobel Prize

in 1964 for literature but did not accept it

Second Empire Style Furniture

is very fancy, formal, uncomfortable

Inez's cousin was

killed by a tram

In Being and Nothingness Choices

man makes choices and is responsible for them

Hell is anything with

no hope

In hell there are

no tears or crying

Euphemism is

polite way of stating the impolite (Absent instead of dead).

Adultry

sex outside of marriage

Estelle claims

she does not make friends with women easily

Estelle doesn't believe she exists unless

she sees herself in a mirror

Garcin used to

sleep with a mistress and his wife would bring them coffee in bed

Valet is

the nephew of the head valet (head valet is satin)

Time in hell goes

very slow compared to time on earth