Three people, trapped in a lavish room, and stuck together for all of eternity. The only communication any of them can have is with the other members in this room. Not bad, right? Wrong. These three people exemplify one another’s imperfections and create a high level of torment with one another. Welcome to hell. Literally, this is the view of hell according to Jean-Paul Sartre in his play, “No Exit.” The characters are unknowingly alone, in terms of finding betterment within inner selves. The only thing the other people in the room create is anguish for one another. The epitome is although these characters are truly not alone, each is lonely and the hell in this is a timeless never ending torture in one another dragging each of themselves into furthered grief and despair. What is hell then? Simply, it is our current living. Sartre is clear in saying “hell is other people” (Sartre 45). The repulsiveness of human nature makes us all infinitely empty and it is something that is inescapable. Depression and loneliness are simple byproducts of acceptance of the ugliness of our world at least according to Sartre. Even if the concept of “hell is other people” is refuted, it does not place one’s own inner nature. Regardless, “No Exit” holds a message of being forever alone at least to achieve a state of happiness. Therefore, loneliness must be examined in three scopes sadness, love, and communication as to understand the purpose of this life, which John G. Mcgraw addresses in his article, “God and the Problem of Loneliness.”
Sadness is the byproduct of loneliness. When thoughts take over the mind, and there is no person there to help relieve or minimize stress or grief, what is left is emptiness. The lack of another being simply brings u...
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...e even stolen my face; you know it and I don’t! And what about her? You’ve stolen her from me too; if she and I were alone do you suppose she’d treat me as she does” (Sartre 22)?
Communication is a vital component in feeling complete, but however as seen with both sadness and love, there is always a balance to allow the capability of feeling. Out of everything in this world, satisfaction is difficult to attain, and somehow no matter what we do, we seem to paradox the very thing we want. The compatibility of ourself with others creates the greatest difficulty in this world. Loneliness is a fabrication within our own existence that simply serves as a way to provide us with unhappiness. The fact is our happiness derives also from the same very things that cause unhappiness, but one thing remains in this world that we all are trying to escape from, infinite loneliness.
Sartre wrote "Anti-Semite and Jew" in France in 1948, before the establishment of Israel. This book is interesting because he spoke with a nationalistic point of view, which means that some of his conclusions don't really apply to America yet still makes meaningful points that we can understand. Also, because he wrote in 1948, the issues of anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism disguised as attacks on Israel had not become in vogue yet. In that sense, his work is somewhat dated but many of his findings carry through into today which is quite important in a scholarly book.
Sharon Begley, author of “Happiness: Enough Already,” proclaims that dejection is not an unacceptable state of mind and there are experts that endorses gloomy feelings. This reading explicates that even though every-one should be happy there is no need to ignore sadness, as both emotions share key parts in everyone’s life. Sharon Begley and her team of specialists provides the information on why sadness is supplemental to a person’s life.
is exemplified in No Exit. It is a portrayal that life in Hell is just
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Being alone means to have no one else present in their life or on one’s own. Even though “we open windows to each other [] we live alone in the love of the heart” (142). Doyle presents the meaning of loneliness through explaining that even though we are open with others we are alone in love, since one secludes that heart from others. Humans believe they are safeguarding themselves with this façade, but are truly creating a wall of solitude and never fully loving or trusting people. Another effect cause by the wall of solitude is never experiencing a major aspect of life which is love. The author compares aspects of life through humming birds and blue whales to represent how one can live their life. Would one rather be alone and not experience love as well as a short lived life like a humming bird or like the blue whales living many
I hope to create a murals that represents my circumferential theme of loneliness. I chose this topic because it is such a prevalent and serious issue within the world. Loneliness however usually lends itself to many unfortunate result of depression. Depression is defined by Meriam Webster’s dictionary as being a serious medical condition in which a person feels very sad, hopeless, and unimportant and often is unable to live in a normal way. Statics have shown that over 121 million people in the world currently are documented as being depressed and 80% of Americans are and do not adequately address the issue of the feeling. After reading the The Connection Gap: Why Americans Feel Alone by Laura Pappano and Dr. Rae Andre’s and Positive Solitude:
Stephen Marche Lets us know that loneliness is “not a state of being alone”, which he describes as external conditions rather than a psychological state. He states that “Solitude can be lovely. Crowded parties can be agony.”
There are two exclusions to achieving happiness through solitary commitment and social dedication. The boundaries of each ought to be kept moderately. Happiness is obtained, through deep thought, and diligence finding out what one desires out of life. Some solitary, social happiness is often risky to the psychological state of being if not used with self-control and balance. The authentic analogy of the two kinds of happiness, social, solitary from completely different aspects. each of those is chosen counting on the comfortability, emotion, and also the rapture of pleasures one receives while looking for happiness. Happiness is a psychological state of well-being that is concentrated on individuals, things, and behaviors which will inspire
“No Exit,” by Jean-Paul Sartre, is a play that illustrates three people’s transitions from wanting to be alone in Hell to needing the omnipresent “other” constantly by their sides. As the story progresses, the characters’ identities become more and more permanent and unchangeable. Soon Inez, Garcin, and Estelle live in the hope that they will obtain the other’s acceptance. These three characters cannot accept their existentialist condition: they are alone in their emotions, thoughts and fears. Consequently, they look to other people to give their past lives and present deaths meaning. Forever trapped in Hell, they are condemned to seek the other for meaning in their lives; even when given the chance to exit the room, the characters choose to stay with each other instead of facing uncertainty and the possibility of being detached from the stability of their relationships with the others. Without other people, the characters would have no reason to exist. Each characters’ significance depends on the other’s opinion of them; Garcin needs someone to deny his cowardliness, Inez yearns for Estelle’s love, and Estelle just wants passion with no commitment. This triangle of unending want, anguish and continual disillusionment because of the other is precisely Sartre’s definition of pure Hell.
“We are left alone, without excuse. This is what I mean when I say that man is condemned to be free” (Sartre 32). Radical freedom and responsibility is the central notion of Jean-Paul Sartre’s philosophy. However, Sartre himself raises objections about his philosophy, but he overcomes these obvious objections. In this paper I will argue that man creates their own essence through their choices and that our values and choices are important because they allow man to be free and create their own existence. I will first do this by explaining Jean-Paul Sartre’s quote, then by thoroughly stating Sartre’s theory, and then by opposing objections raised against Sartre’s theory.
In the play No Exit every character has a view of what Hell is for them. What Hell does is it gives you challenges and tests. In No Exit the characters all go through major hardships and they had to face them knowing that they are going to be there for eternity. The first issue they all have to deal with is, wanting things they cannot have and not being able to be with the people closest to their hearts. The second issue is boredom and the passing of time. And, the third issue is the guilt of what they did to be sent to Hell and knowing that they could have changed the outcome. All of these issues are some of the same types of struggles we have in our daily lives and at times do not even realize it.
The problem we have in today’s society is that people work to acquire as much money and possessions as they can and they think this will achieve happiness. Unfortunately, nobody told these people that happiness cannot be purchased and our possessions will fade no longer keep our interest. As we engulf ourselves in our daily busy work, our relationships are becoming strained and we are distancing ourselves from real happiness. We are seeking the means of work and money as an end, and we are chasing the wrong things in life. We hide from our unhappiness by watching television or partake in activities to distract ourselves from our problems. We need to find true happiness and this is found in becoming virtuous, creating good friendships,
from the society can cause loneliness in ones life. In “A Rose For Emily”, William
Jean Paul Sartre personally believed in the philosophical idea of existentialism, which is demonstrated in his play No Exit. His ideas of existentialism were profoundly outlined in the play. Based on the idea that mental torture is more agonizing than physical, No Exit leaves the reader with mixed emotions towards the importance of consequences for one’s acts.
Sartre rank that many relationships are created by people's attraction not to another person, but rather how that person makes them feel going themselves by how they consider at them. This is a state of emotional aberration whereby a person avoids have their subjectiveness by identifying themselves with "the look" of the other. The consequence is conflict. In order to defend the person's own being, the person must control the other, but must also check the unreservedness of the other "as freedom". These relationships are a profound appearance of "deleterious faith" as the for-itself is repay with the other's freedom. The design of either sharing is not to be, but to maintain the other participant's looking at them. This system is often mistakenly exhort "love", but it is, in fact, nothing more than excitable monomania and disavowal of freedom through conflict with the other. Sartre believes that it is often make as a import of workmanship the insupportable torment of a person's relationship to their "facticity" (all of the concrete nuts and bolts against the background of which human independence exists and is limited, such as birthplace and age) tolerable. At its extreme, the mania can go so strict that due to the guilt of being so radically enslaved by "the look" and therefore radically missing their own freedoms, the participants can experience masochistic and sadistic attitudes.