These words describe a philosophy called existentialism. This term comes from a French philosopher called Jean Paul Sartre. Existentialism has been described as a philosophical movement especially of the 20th century. A true existentialist will create their own beliefs, take responsibility for his or her own actions, and is very honest. If they were to do something wrong, they would take responsibility for their actions and not make any excuses. Furthermore, a true existentialist believes there is no God and thus man becomes alone with only ourselves as a guide to making the decisions that defines our existence. .
Sartre wrote "No Exit" where he portrayed his philosophy negatively. The author attempts to describe his version of what hell is, a subject that many have pondered, but non really know. Sartre voiced his thoughts through the characters of his play, Garcin, Inez, and Estelle. The three main characters in this play create the hell they where banished to by hurting each other in a disturbed form of love triangle, where the love isn't really there. In this triangle Inez is attracted to Estelle, who in turn needs a man such as Garcin to desire and notice her. This Garcin can hurt Inez by pretending to desire Estelle, or hurt Estelle by not caring. Garcin however, will never be at rest until Inez recognizes that he is not a coward. Garcin needs that reassurance. .
When Garcin remarks that, "Hell is other people" Sartre is having Garcin restate his own view on humanity. Sartre believes that the fate of humankind is to torment and be tormented by others with whom we live. Sartre's hell is merely a system of exploitation as Inez observes it as "an economy of manpower" (p. 17). His hell is the same as society, where it exploits those who exist in it and fill their lives with suffering and meaninglessness. The fact that Garcin can look down to earth is furthermore torture. It is a constant reminder to him that he has messed up his chance at life and can now do nothing about it.
Because there is no God, one may perhaps find their hell in other people. ... Sartre was a French philosopher and playwright. ... All of the characters are in this "hell" because of the choices they made in life. ... As a result of their choices they ended up together in hell. ... Using each individual's consciousness they determine each other's essences and realize that their hell is other people. ...
In the Christian west, it is believed that if one kills a person, they will go to hell. Since most Christians fear hell, they do not kill individuals. ... Jean Paul Sartre expresses this idea when he criticizes Kant's categorical imperative. ... Sartre concludes from this that Kant's categorical imperative is useless in a situation such as this one. ... Moral judgments differ from other judgments because they cannot be thought out rationally, as Sartre discovers. ...
Similarly, in Sartre's No Exit, the protagonist Inez lives by her own truth by thinking for herself. ... We're all tarred with the same brush" (Sartre 16). She is imparting unto Garcin and Estelle that there is no sense in feigning innocence, arguing and blaming one another because they are all in hell for a reason - they are paying the price for debauchery. ... "I prefer to choose my hell; I prefer to look you in the eyes and fight it out face to face" (23). ... All of me's here, in this room" (Sartre 29). ...
"Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well" (Fanon & Sartre, 1965). ... Also, it is important to note that Fanon believed the only way of achieving freedom through decolonization was through force and violence (Fanon & Sartre, 1965). ... "The colonized subject is always on his guard" (Fanon & Sartre, 1965, p. 30). ... There is such fear and everyone is so on edge that the smallest incident could cause all hell to break loose. The oppressed lash out at the colonists and they respond with the a...
Jean-Paul Sartre described the meaning of his play No Exit as" Life is for the living if they exist authentically. ... Through the characters of Inez, Garcin and Estelle, Sartre shows us how he believes Hell is the result of living without feeling. ... She wants to dominate hell as she did on earth. ... Sartre's point in this play was to be true to yourself. ... Although he does not believe in hell he uses hell in this play as a symbol for torture. ...
This can be looked at in two ways; one is the belief that people have to do well on Earth because it will never get any better, or it can give people a reason to commit a lot of evil doings because they have no reason to fear a Hell in their afterlife. ... Sartre described a sniper in a bell tower who saw a tank "slowly creeping down the road". ... Sartre was trying to show that you don't have to be like God in every way to contain God within you. ... Perhaps the "holiness" is only superficial, yet it is still another way of Sartre telling you that God only exists within people. ....
This is because these concepts are based on mankind's interpretations of the universe, and not the universe itself (Sartre 36). ... This is important because the answers are ultimately unknowable; the only answer that is "right" for any individual is an answer that the individual invents or, at the very least, chooses for himself/herself (Sartre 20). ... You know you"re going to go to hell, right?")... Sartre himself voices his disapproval of this sort of individual: And then, all of a sudden, there it was, clear as day: existence had suddenly unveiled itself. ... (Sartre 127...
The setting of Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot is much like Jean-Paul Sartre's portrait of an existential hell in the play No Exit, in that in both, torture is not physical pain, but the monotony and meaninglessness of waiting for nothing. ... One of them will be saved by Godot and taken to a more pleasant place, perhaps like the Christian idea of heaven, while the other will be damned to hell. ...
The Plague of Existence The Plague by Camus is an interesting piece of work. It takes a deep look into the different reactions people have to hardships. This is profoundly important because the existentialist view presents the world as a tremendous difficulty that we all must somehow learn to overcome. According to Camus life is full of pointless repetition. It is a human tendency to try to gain knowledge, understand, predict, and control all that we encounter. ...