Torture In No Exit By Jean Paul Sartre

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During normal life, people encounter those who they do not get along with. In the play No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre, the Hell they encounter is other people they cannot leave, and are stuck with for all eternity. Through acts of manipulation, they realize the difference between physical torture and mental torture. After dying and not living up to God’s standards to enter Heaven, three people are placed in a locked room, which is their Hell. In No Exit, Hell is not flame and physical torture that is told of in the bible. Instead, Hell is other people. The first man in the room, Garcin, asks the valet, “where are all of instruments of torture?” (4), the valet laughs in his face claiming that, “all our guests ask me the same questions,” (4). Before …show more content…
Garcin was told before he died that Hell was a place of pain and torture. After this conversation took place, he is left to wonder what truly makes this Hell since there is nothing they could truly be harmed with. The physical torture that was expected to proceed after entering Hell was not met, and instead, Garcin was left alone with another, Inez. Upon entering the room, Inez believed that Garcin was the torturer himself. Both Garcin and Inez expect pain and suffering to derive from their troubling life they held previous to death. Hell is perceived to be a place of fire and horror, which is exactly what the third individual, Estelle, also expected. Upon her entering, Garcin had his head in his hands. At the sight of this she screamed, “No. Don’t look up. I know what you’re hiding with your hands. I know you’ve no face left.” (10). This implies that Estelle was expecting much of the
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