No Exit

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 like Dante's Inferno? Can the mind be in hell in a beautiful place? Is there a way to find peace in a hellish physical environment? Enter Sartre's space more fully and imagine how it would feel to live there endlessly, night and day.
My idea of hell is a place where I am extremely unhappy and I have no one I love around me. It could be anywhere. Sometimes I see school as a type of hell, but school isn't the stereotypical hell we picture in our minds. There is a way to find peace in a hellish enviornment: you have to accept your surroundings and the people that surround you. Once you give up fighting against what you don't want to see, you will become content.

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?
Athletes will understand when I say that certain work outs are often described as hell. If practice runs long and it is boring or a really hard physically, most will say that "this is hell." But they don't mean it in the literal term that they have died and are being punished for there sins. They mean that they are tired and want to get "the hell" out of there.

How does Sartre create a sense of place through dialogue? Can you imagine what it feels like 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 around so that everyday habits become hell? Is there a pattern of circumstances that reinforces the experience of hell?
He shows panic in their voice. It shows that they are trapped. The characters also describe the setting through the dialogue. Garcin reacts calmly, then he is super confused, then calm and accepting, then he goes a little bonkers. But overall he seems to keep his cool considering where he is and the new life he is presented with. I'm not really sure if there is a way to create your own living hell. Usually other people create it for you rather it be intentionally or unintentionally. When people say that a certain situation is hell, they mean that it is difficult for them to cope with physically or mentally.


"No Exit" is a story about three people that were basically thrown together in hell as their own torturers. Each person was put there to torture on or the other, or both. They are there for what seems like just a few hours and they all get on eachothers nerves so quickly. They realize that "hell is other people" and yet they still contiue to bicker and bug eachother.
I think that Sartre does a great job of getting his message accross which is "hell is other people." He is saying that you dont need to be in the firey furnace of what we see hell to be, to be in hell. All you need to to be malcontent with things and people that you do not like.