Jean-Paul Sartre

In Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit and Charles Manson's Testimony, both Estelle Rigault and Charles Manson refuse to accept responsibility for their actions by condemning others for their actions, being dishonest towards others and, disregarding the repercussion of their actions. Ultimately, both do not live an authentic life. Estelle and Charles both refuse to accept responsibility for their actions which results in them to be incapable to live an authentic life. Estelle blames her brother for…

Dante’s Inferno by Dante Alighieri and No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre both highlight the punishment experienced by sinners in hell, but since these stories are written nearly 750 years apart and come from two completely different places, No Exit being first performed in France in 1944 and Dante’s Inferno being written in 1300’s by a medieval Italian man, the stories vary in their telling of how hell is like and how sinners are punished in hell. In No Exit the Sinners are psychologically tortured…

The stories of great heroes and leaders have been around for a very long time. One of the oldest works of literature, Beowulf, was recited in the 8th to 11th century in Anglish- also known as ‘old English’. The epic poem was officially written down in 700 BC, providing historical knowledge that reflects the early medieval Anglo-Saxon culture: pride, glory, and self achievement. Approximately 300 years later, Heracles by Euripides was performed. A tragedy telling the aftermath of Heracles twelve…

Birt builds on the Sartrean idea that bad faith the act of deceiving oneself consciously or unconsciously. Sartre explains the division between normal deception or lying and bad faith comes from the quality of the deceived. When one lies, they have the truth and they have the intent to deceive or hide that truth from another person. Conversely, the deceived person…

Camus’ philosophy adopts the third choice. His alternative to suicide or a false belief in some metaphysical or religious rationality is to live life in rebellion (Aronson 9). He proposes that living in defiance of the bereft condition of humanity is to live with integrity. Being fully conscious of life’s absurdity but carrying on with vigor and in earnest: this is how Camus proposes to make life worthwhile. By being aware of the human condition, Camus claims that one is taking ownership of it.…

Hell of No Exit Existentialism has always been a new way to view life. To live – to exist – without context, without labels, without definitions given by everyone else is a notion that is relieving for some and distressing for others. Written by Jean-Paul Sartre in 1944, the French play No Exit, paints a vivid and imaginative picture of an existentialist’s hell. By trapping one’s greatest fears in a room for eternity, Sartre’s intricately woven depiction of modern Hell introduces a new…

their economy and more so society as but, there’s many other internal factors such as one’s religion, parenting, personal morals, and even interactions with one another all are more determining of a person’s identity and self sense. For example Jean-Paul Sartre proposes that ownership extends beyond objects to include tangible and intangible things. One prime personal example could be my religion. I identify as a Roman Catholic, and that makes me who I am. Materialistic things beyond that does…

at an all time high. Additionally, the social impact and disparity from both World Wars played a part in popularizing this philosophical idea. Throughout the twentieth century the philosophers confronted the issue of responsibility in our choices. Sartre stated that we are “condemned to be totally free” meaning that we cannot blame anyone, not even God, for our choices in life. This statement had an important social context as at the time many Nazi’s claimed they were just following orders.…

existentialist would say, you always have a choice. Existentialism is a philosophical theory that stresses that all humans are free and responsible for their own development through their own decisions. In the play, The Respectful Prostitute by Jean-Paul Sartre, Lizzie uses her own freedom to advance her socioeconomic status and fulfill her need to be wanted at the expense of two people’s lives and justice for the man who was slain. The Respectful Prostitute details a fictitious example of…

claims himself to be happy and to always have been. His way of embracing the irrational and deliberately following the visceral life force which goes beyond ethics and reason has got some points in common with that of Nietzsche’s Übermensch. Jean-Paul Sartre, in his ‘Explication of The Stranger’, defined the epiphany of realising the absurd as a ‘state of hopeless lucidity’. In a world in which, metaphorically speaking, God is dead and man is mortal, all moral values collapse; every experience…