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
