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4.05 AVERAGE
4.05 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
hell is truly other people
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
funny
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Written in 1944, "No exist" is an existentialist play that takes place in an afterlife scene. Full of bright ironic remarks, Sartre's work conveys deep thoughts on the ontological sphere.
The story transports us to Hell, where three individuals (Joseph Garcin, Inèz Serrano, and Estelle Rigault) are brought to the same mysterious room. Hell is portrayed differently. It is not the classic environment with physical torture and burning charcoals, but a mere room with old-fashioned furniture. Initially, the three damned souls are unaware of each other's crime, yet, they conclude that they were put in the same room to make each other miserable. The story starts to heat up when they decide to confess their crimes. Consequently, an ironic "triangle of love" starts to build among them.
The three characters can't escape from the room. The main door is locked and a feeling of eternal despair grows among the three souls. The stories behind their crimes end up revealing their characters and their nature. Moreover, each one of them has a certain personality and a specific nature. Thus, ironically speaking, the three characters are entangled in a peculiar triangle of "love". Around this triangle, among the three, there are feelings/sentiments/emotions of love, hate, validation-seeking, jealously, indifference, neediness, and anger. For that reason, it's this connection that makes their torture much more severe.
All the characters reveal how despicable they are while they get to know each other. Those characters, after all, represent the worst of human nature.
They are aware of their flaws and their mistakes, but they haven't done anything to change during their lifetime. According to Sartre, if we are responsible for own freedom of choice, we are capable of changing our behaviours. So, perhaps, if the three souls are aware of their "devilish" attitude, the story implies that they chose to be like this, to be condemned that way.
Sartre presents a simple but yet powerful story about the Human condition, such as free-will, bad faith and "alien freedom". Also, the witty ironic remarks make the play even more splendid.
"No exit" provides a magnificent existentialist story for the theatre format, which is undoubtedly a fabulous phenomenon by Jean-Paul Sartre.
“Hell is—other people!”
Rating: 4/5 stars
The story transports us to Hell, where three individuals (Joseph Garcin, Inèz Serrano, and Estelle Rigault) are brought to the same mysterious room. Hell is portrayed differently. It is not the classic environment with physical torture and burning charcoals, but a mere room with old-fashioned furniture. Initially, the three damned souls are unaware of each other's crime, yet, they conclude that they were put in the same room to make each other miserable. The story starts to heat up when they decide to confess their crimes. Consequently, an ironic "triangle of love" starts to build among them.
The three characters can't escape from the room. The main door is locked and a feeling of eternal despair grows among the three souls. The stories behind their crimes end up revealing their characters and their nature. Moreover, each one of them has a certain personality and a specific nature. Thus, ironically speaking, the three characters are entangled in a peculiar triangle of "love". Around this triangle, among the three, there are feelings/sentiments/emotions of love, hate, validation-seeking, jealously, indifference, neediness, and anger. For that reason, it's this connection that makes their torture much more severe.
All the characters reveal how despicable they are while they get to know each other. Those characters, after all, represent the worst of human nature.
They are aware of their flaws and their mistakes, but they haven't done anything to change during their lifetime. According to Sartre, if we are responsible for own freedom of choice, we are capable of changing our behaviours. So, perhaps, if the three souls are aware of their "devilish" attitude, the story implies that they chose to be like this, to be condemned that way.
Sartre presents a simple but yet powerful story about the Human condition, such as free-will, bad faith and "alien freedom". Also, the witty ironic remarks make the play even more splendid.
"No exit" provides a magnificent existentialist story for the theatre format, which is undoubtedly a fabulous phenomenon by Jean-Paul Sartre.
“Hell is—other people!”
Rating: 4/5 stars
dark
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
funny
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Solid 3.5.
I liked it! It depressed me, but I liked it. Lots of good quotes. Really liked this one:
One always dies too soon—or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are—your life, and nothing else.
I like the moral, too. There's of this weird romanticization of suffering or loving someone who doesn't love you back or whatever going on in books and movies and stuff, and this was not that. Don't surround yourself with people who can't or won't love you. Good advice!
I should probably mention that I read this in the first place because I watched The Good Place, which is a kind of dumb TV show that thinks it's smart but manages to still be fun. This was obviously better than that. I was surprised by just how much better, although I shouldn't have been, given television's track record with... well, with everything.
Anyway. It's good. Would recommend.
I liked it! It depressed me, but I liked it. Lots of good quotes. Really liked this one:
One always dies too soon—or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are—your life, and nothing else.
I like the moral, too. There's of this weird romanticization of suffering or loving someone who doesn't love you back or whatever going on in books and movies and stuff, and this was not that. Don't surround yourself with people who can't or won't love you. Good advice!
I should probably mention that I read this in the first place because I watched The Good Place, which is a kind of dumb TV show that thinks it's smart but manages to still be fun. This was obviously better than that. I was surprised by just how much better, although I shouldn't have been, given television's track record with... well, with everything.
Anyway. It's good. Would recommend.
dark
emotional
funny
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes