Thinking Outside the Box

"No Exit" Questions

1. My hell is equipped like Dante's Inferno with different levels of being tortured. Yes, the hell in the mind can be in a beautiful place because you can be in a peaceful surrounding but be thinking about all the terrible things that your regret. There is always time for peace, it is up to YOU to find it.

2. Yes, hell is always without a break because you are always trying to overcome something.

3. Satre creates a sense of place by describing the wall and the passage. No, I can;t imagine what it feels like to stay awake all the time with the lights on. Garcin acts scared about this hell because he keeps referring to the light and how it is always on. I can twist things around to make my life hell by simply putting what I have in an order that will upset me and torture me.

Plato and Sartre

Both Plato and Sarte seem to have there characters as prisoner with only one way to leave. The cave in The Allegory of the cave and the room in No Exit seem to symbolize a prison. Both the characters in each title have the opportunity to leave but do not. They can choose to leave when they want to in the Allegory of the Cave and in No Exit the door opens and nobody takes the chance to leave and be free. Both authors also play tricks with the characters minds. In The Allegory of the Cave Plato uses imagery such as shadows and flames to create a picture in the prisoners heads. In No exit Sarte plays tricks by setting the characters up with each other. They all just argue and seem to not like each other and get on each others nerves. If you think about it both Plato and Sarte see hell as a boring place were you do not want to be