What really caught my attention is how Sartre portrays Hell in No Exit. It matches up with one of my own visions of Hell. Everything seems pretty subtle, the room is hideous, the furniture is arranged in uncomfortable ways, and the lights cannot be turned off. What also interests me is how everything is man made. The valet may be foreshadowing Garcin's future. He is there to show the new "absentee" that he is to become indifferent, have no personality or even eyelids. Garcin, Inez, and Estelle all notice that there is no "torturer" or any instruments of torture present in the room, as they all would have expected. Estelle does not even seem to realize, or want to acknowledge, that she is in Hell. Inez is the only one who seems to understand that they are damned for all time with each other in that room. She is the first to realize that they are all put together for the purpose of tormenting each other and the room and everything in it is predetermined for them. All three of them are incredibly fake and what they say cannot be trusted. None of them will openly admit why they are there or that they did anything wrong in the first place. Inez is the only one to acknowledge that they had to have done something wrong be damned in Hell but none of them have the spine to tell the others what it is they did. Something that seems to be torturing all of them is how they can see what is happening on Earth. Everyone they knew is living their lives and they are stuck in one room as they watch life on Earth carry on. Sartre's version of Hell might not be pain, completely darkness, and physical torture but it is certainly Hell.
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