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Jean-Paul Sartre · 1944
A one-act existentialist play in which three characters find themselves in hell, depicted as a Second Empire drawing room, where they must confront Sartre's philosophy that 'hell is other people' and grapple with their inability to change their past actions or create their future.
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Hell is other people: mutual need traps three souls in endless self-exposure, with no escape from others' defining gaze.
self-and-identity
I've six big mirrors in my bedroom…how empty it is, a glass in which I'm absent! I always made sure there was one nearby in which I could see myself.
EJP-RC-012You can't prevent your being there. You've even stolen my face; you know it and I don't!
EJP-RC-014shame
I pried into my heart, I sleuthed myself like a detective. If I face death courageously, I'll prove I am no coward. And how did you face death? Miserably.
EJP-RC-024If there's just one person to say positively I did not run away—that one person's faith would save me. Will you have that faith in me?
EJP-RC-025erotic-as-power
Everything here's a booby-trap. We're chasing each other, round and round in a vicious circle, like horses on a roundabout. Do you think I'll let go?
EJP-RC-019Kiss me, darling—then you'll hear her squeal…Oh, you coward, you weakling, running to women to console you!
EJP-RC-028Illuminates
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