Due Wednesday
How is hell other people?
1. Finish reading No Exit, the short play by Jean Paul Sartre. Annotate it.
2. Add your comments to our new Discussion Board on Turnitin.com (prompt also posted below).
Topic #2 : Sartre, No Exit, and ExistentialismStarts: 18-May-2015 12:01AM Ends: 01-Jun-2015 11:59PM
Created by Meg ArbeiterDr. Michael Delahoyde
Washington State University writes
"The traditional reading of Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit, published in 1943, seeks to identify the various tenets commonly associated with Sartrean existentialism, namely that man is an absolutely autonomous individual, determined by his own will alone, for whom his consequent separation from others facilitates infallible liberty and free choice. No Exit is widely regarded as the literary expression of another Sartrean work, Being and Nothingness, published the same year.
Sartre deliberately wrote No Exit as a one-act play so that theatergoers would not be kept past the German-imposed curfew. Many forms of entertainment, including plays, had to be approved by German censors. During rehearsals, clearance to perform the play was given and taken away several times before the first performance in May 1944 just before liberation of Paris.
The most famous line in the play is given by Garcin, saying that hell is other people ("l'enfer, c'est les autres"). "
How is Hell other people?
Comment on the play, the characters, the dialogue.
Cite textual evidence in your comments.
You may also include personal experience and other resources (current or historical events), other works of art, etc.
How is hell other people?
1. Finish reading No Exit, the short play by Jean Paul Sartre. Annotate it.
2. Add your comments to our new Discussion Board on Turnitin.com (prompt also posted below).
Topic #2 : Sartre, No Exit, and ExistentialismStarts: 18-May-2015 12:01AM Ends: 01-Jun-2015 11:59PM
Created by Meg ArbeiterDr. Michael Delahoyde
Washington State University writes
"The traditional reading of Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit, published in 1943, seeks to identify the various tenets commonly associated with Sartrean existentialism, namely that man is an absolutely autonomous individual, determined by his own will alone, for whom his consequent separation from others facilitates infallible liberty and free choice. No Exit is widely regarded as the literary expression of another Sartrean work, Being and Nothingness, published the same year.
Sartre deliberately wrote No Exit as a one-act play so that theatergoers would not be kept past the German-imposed curfew. Many forms of entertainment, including plays, had to be approved by German censors. During rehearsals, clearance to perform the play was given and taken away several times before the first performance in May 1944 just before liberation of Paris.
The most famous line in the play is given by Garcin, saying that hell is other people ("l'enfer, c'est les autres"). "
How is Hell other people?
Comment on the play, the characters, the dialogue.
Cite textual evidence in your comments.
You may also include personal experience and other resources (current or historical events), other works of art, etc.