Jean-Paul Sartre: No Exit

No Exit - Reflection
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January 26, 2022
Jean-Paul Sartre is recognized for writing plays that constantly challenge human existence, and such issues can be perplexing and challenging to understand for a narrow-minded reader or listener. This essay will focus on a play he wrote called No Exit (Huis Clos), which delves deeply into human life and behavior. The narrative indicates that hell is created by the people surrounding each other rather than God, which is accurate because our situation on Earth can sometimes be described as hell.
In Sartre's play, it was shown that the characters in the essay were condemned to the same room in hell where they had to reflect on their own selves by admitting what they did to others. Although Sartre's conception of punishment defies the common notion of what hell is, the story's narrative shows that the damnation of the characters, in relation to their backstories, was enough to be considered a punishment for their transgressions in life.
Notably, the story's main characters had various transgressions that they tried to conceal. Garcin said that he was only killed for being a pacifist at the beginning of the story. However, it was revealed that he cheated and mistreated his wife, which was why he was condemned to the said room. In contrast, Estelle only said that there had been a mistake in her execution. She insisted that she was merely falsely accused and should not be in the room. However, it would be later reve...