blog




  • Essay / The Meaning of Death in Whitaker's No Exit - 1561

    The third version/style of hell that the characters are placed in is MAN vs OTHER MANS Thoughts, which essentially allows others to think about how a person lives his life. . In this quote from Mera, "They are 'naked as newborns' and must suffer to be seen by others as they really are." She says that a person must show others who they really are and cannot dress themselves up. “make up” and show them what they want to see (Méra 15). For example, if a person is a murderer, they will have to show people that they are a murderer and cannot hide this with "makeup" and show them that they are an innocent person just because they don't want to. deal with the consequences. In this quote from Guicharnaud, “The acts are from the past and the characters attempt to evaluate them, the emphasis is not placed on the discovery of why, by what determinism of the world and of men, the characters committed their crimes” , explains Guicharnaud. that the characters must live with their choices and face the consequences of their choices just like the last quote from Méra (Guicharnaud 63). Garcin, Estelle and Inez all