NOTES: "No Exit"

Intro:

• 19 centuary philosopher's developed existentialism
• Existentialism : philosophical and cultural movement which holds that the starting point of philosophical thinking must be the experiences of the individual
• Jean Paul Sartre
• French writer  
• popularized existentialism
• produced No Exit in Paris
• 4 characters :   
• Valet
• Garcin
• Estelle
• Inez
• Entire play takes place in a drawing room.
• "Hell is other people" {put yourself in the drawing room with two people you hate the most in the world}

Lets begin...

• GARCIN and VALET enter the room
• GARCIN doesn't care for the Second Empire drawing-room
• mentions how different everything is
• "instruments of torture" are the racks and red-hot pincers and all the other paraphernalia
• GARCIN see's there are no mirrors or windows or toothbrush or bed
• VALET mentions how "guests" are always asking the same annoying questions
• "Where's the torture-chamber?" 
• "...they start in about their toothbrushes and what-ot."
• GARCIN "So that's the idea. I'm to live without eyelids. Don't act the fool, you know what I mean. No eyelids, no sleep; it follows,doesn't it?"
• VALET asks if GARCIN can see
• his uncle is the head valet & has a room on the third floor 
• says the bell doesn't work
• GARCIN tries the bell but it remains silent
• tries many times to get assistance
• after he sits down the door opens & in comes INEZ with VALET
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