1. 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:
- To me hell is somewhere you would not want to be. Hell is a place where you can't escape. Your mind never stops thinking so you can be in the most relaxing and beautiful place but your trapped in your own mind. Finding peace is finding yourself so being calm and relaxation is a way to find peace in a hellish place. Sartre's space seems very disturbing. I would feel very anxious and I may go crazy.
2. 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?
- Hell is where you feel like you can't escape or leave. These characters do not know they are in a hell but hell is like Dante's inferno. Our restrictions are what keep us in a hellish mindset.
3. 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?
- Sartre creates a sense of place through dialogue by the reactions and what the characters say. I would go crazy sleeping with the lights on and probably never leaving it sounds awful. Until Garcin confesses his sins he doesn't know he is in hell. I could stay cooped up in my room for days on end with no contact with people I normally talk to I would think that brings a good definition of hell.
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