![]() ![]() ![]() Exasperated that he’s forced to spend eternity with Inez and Estelle, Garcin declares, “Hell is-other people!” This sentiment is one of Sartre’s most well-known ideas, but it has certain implications many people don’t consider. After falling into arguments, though, they realize they’ve been placed in the drawing-room to inflict agony upon one another, acting as their own torturers. As they acquaint themselves with their new surroundings, they recognize the absence of a torturer, wondering how, exactly, they’ll be punished. To make this point, he portrays hell as a simple drawing-room that accommodates three recently deceased people- Garcin, Inez, and Estelle. ![]() In No Exit, Jean-Paul Sartre suggests that true misery comes from the human inability to control the nature of one’s own existence. ![]()
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