Jean Paul Sartre : French writer
characters :
Valet
Garcin
Estelle
Inez
takes place in a drawing room
("Think about the place you have chosen as your hell. Does it look ordinary and bourgeois,like Sartre's drawing room, or is it equipped with literal instruments of torture likeDante's Inferno? Can the mind be in hell in a beautiful place? Is there a way to find peacein a hellish physical environment? Enter Sartre's space more fully and imagine how itwould feel to live there endlessly, night and day")
("Could hell be described as too much of anything without a break? Are variety,moderation and balance instruments we use to keep us from boiling in any inferno of excess,' whether it be cheesecake or ravenous sex?") --- appreciation for thought
No windows only floors and rooms
Garcin asks if its day, Valet knows not what he means
Garcin then ask if he has days off...Valet says yes but he only visits his uncle on the 3rd floor
("How does Sartre create a sense of place through dialogue? Can you imagine what it feelslike to stay awake all the time with the lights on with no hope of leaving a specific place?How does GARCIN react to this hell? How could you twist your daily activities aroundso that everyday habits become hell? Is there a pattern of circumstances that reinforcesthe experience of hell?")
Finally Valet and Inez enter
Inez is a woman who is to share a room with Garcin
Valet tells her to ask Garcin about the room since they had such a detailed talk
Inez believes Garcin is the torturer and they separated her and Florence as such.
Garcin says no and goes on to talk her
Inez is unmarried
She says those who torture looked frightened
THEY ARE DEAD! *got it.
In hell! Yet they talk about the living to be "down there"?
Inez died a week ago
Estelle died yesterday from pneumonia, from Paris
Garcin ...12 shots in the chest, month ago, from Rio
They all wonder why they are in hell
They figured out they are all evil in one way or another
And then they realized that there is really no physical pain
That they (the devil) put them in the same room to torture one another since they are all so different
That is how they will live for eternity
No mirrors in hell?
Inez acted as Estelle's mirror, but mirrors sometimes lie
Inez is attracted to Estelle she puts her's and Garcin's acts on blast
Garcin=unfaithful to his loving wife
Inez=killed a man (3)
Estelle= A man killed himself over her and killed her child
Inez wants Estelle, Estelle wants Garcin, Garcin wants Inez
Estelle gives herself to Garcin but not her trust
Garcin didn't want to fight in the war so he tried to run to Mexico
Garcins wife is dead
Time goes by very slow in hell compared to on earth
Garcin asks Estelle to let him love her forever
Estelle say yes but then Inez butts in and makes him realize she would love any guy down here
Garcin tries to escape
"One always dies too soon-- or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are-- your life,and nothing else"
Inez keeps pushing, Estelle tries to kill Inez.
Yet they are all already dead!
( Kudos to Ashlie)
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