Over the past 13 years of my primary and secondary education, I have noticed that if there are deep questions within the text, then it simply works best sometimes to just answer those.
Pre Play:
- I originally believed that the title for this blog post was to be "Thinking Inside the Box" which I found incredibly ironic yet appropriate for this blog post concerning the play "No Exit" by Jean Paul Sartre, due to the fact that this play takes place in a single solitary room, and yet features existentialist thinking.
- Existentialism: sense of disorientation and confusion in the face of an apparently meaningless or absurd world.
- Jean Paul Sartre-Only five feet tall (Finally taller than somebody!) Sartre.org seems to be a comprehensive website about his life and importance in the existentialist movement, also based on the spelling of several of the words including theater-theatre and how I seem to be reading the website in a British accent, this website is probably from England. And here is a large work from Stanford's Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
In Play Questions:
- Think about the play you have chosen as your hell...-My hell is a hospital waiting room. White and those crazy florescence lights. Sanitized and empty while chairs. All that you hear is the ticking of a clock and the steps of the Doctor echo on the cheap tile, but the door never opens to call out your name. And you are stuck waiting for white feels like bad news in the pit of your stomach. For eternity, without end. Oh and the people you hate most of all, are sitting next to you.
- Could hell be described as too much of anything without a break?-Yes, that could be one way of describing it. Too much of a good thing is usually a bad thing.
- How does Sartre create a sense of place through dialogue?-It is almost as if dialogue is both closed and roundabout. Just like the room. The dialogue, in my opinion, represents the existentialist view of disorientation and confusion which creates meaninglessness within the play. Which actually, reflects the idea of the closed setting of the play.
- Weird, version I printed out only has the tree questions (it was from Lisa's response to your post)
Plato-Escape the cave and your ignorance through knowledge and learning.
Sartre-Hell is the people around us, existentialist ideas including life is absurd.
(more to come)
Hello fellow classmate!
ReplyDeleteI invite you to go check out my blog post “thinking outside the box” and “No exit Notes+Questions.” http://emarquezrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Thank you,
Erica
I like your direct-to-the-point statement you made at the end! You should read and comment on my blog post "Thinking Outside of the Box" and the "No Exit" question post below it! http://lvalenzuelarhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/ Thanks!
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