Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

Discussion Notes:

1. How do the characters' anticipations of what Hell is like preceed their experience of it in the play?
2. By what means do the characters maintain a denial of their deeds?
3. What did they do in their lives to deserve Hell?
4. What's wrong, from Sartre's perspective with the way Estelle evades judging Garcin at p. 37?
5. Do the characters make any progress during the play?

©1997 by Mark Alfino, Department of Philosophy, Gonzaga University.