No Exit

How did Joseph die?

12 shots

Life dates

1905-1980

When was no Exit preformed for the first time?

1944

when did he devote himself to writing

1946

Which character is a journalist from Rio?

Garcin

how do the three characters torture each other?

Garcin tortures Estelle, because she wants him to love her and think her beautiful, while he refuses to do so. Estelle tortures Inez, because Inez feels an unreciprocated attraction to Estelle. And finally, Inez tortures Garcin. He wants to be considered a hero, not a coward, and it is Inez's approval that he seeks (since he has correctly identified that she, not Estelle, knows and understands human emotions and faults).

How does Garcin show bad faith?

He wants Estelle to say that he wasn't a coward because maybe if one person says it then it will save him

Famous quote

Hell is other people -yes they torture each other and they suffer because of each other

which character was a postal clerk?

Inez

Author of the book?

Jean Paul Sartre

Who are the three characters?

Joseph Garcin Inez Serrano Estelle Rigualt

name other books/ plays he wrote

Nausea(dread), Gustav Flaubert

Sartre was awarded the _______ ___________ for ______________ in _______ but did not except the honor.

Nobel Prize for Literature, 1964`

Where was Sartre born>?

Paris

How does Estelle have bad faith?

She keeps denying that she was a terrible person when she killed her baby and tries to justify why she is a good person

How did Estelle end up in Hell?

She married an older husband to support her family but wanted to leave for her one true love

Estelle wants to refer to their deaths as?

absences

After war what did he become?

atheist

existentialism

examines the purpose of human existence and question of free will

This book has a big concept on the fact that if you don't act then you don't ________ .

exist

How did Inez die?

gas stove

What are some thematic ideas?

good faith vs. bad faith black and white universe your actions decide your future

How did Joseph end up in hell?

he was at war and stood up for his beliefs and was then killed

Where is this story taking place?

hell

what was the difference between his prewar work and post war work?

human dignity to social responsibility

How did Estelle die?

pneumonia

What are the two parts to existentialism and explain both?

religious- each individual needs to find christ within themselves secular- life has no sense

What are some of the characteristics of No Exit?

short and often violent centered around one event tense style small cast

Where did sartre attend school?

sorbonne

competitive subjectivity

that's a belief that by very existence we compete with each other for who is the subject over our own existence

existence precedes essence

there is no essence to you until you act and until that all you do is exist

How are they tortured?

they are each others torturers

What makes the setting a place of hell?

they are stuck in one room no windows no eyelids the lights are always on they have no control over the bell

Inez states that " each of us will act as a ___________ of the two others"

torturer

What was the secular idea influenced by?

world war 2