Jean Paul Sartre Accomplishments

Hell, is a word that horrifies human beings’ minds; the image of a burning inferno, where everything is on fire and people receive punishments in the form of torture by the devil. As said by Méra, “There is no place for hell since in a system devoid of all religious concepts there cannot be any existence after death”, many people do not think hell even exists (Méra 15). Sartre has proved that even though it is not the physical place, hell still does exist, but in other forms, “We’re in hell” (Sartre 16). For centuries, people have searched high and low to discover new ways to purify their souls, to be forgiven for their sins, and assure their way into the Kingdom of God, all conjured by the terror of interminable damnation and agony. People

As a matter of fact, his actual birth name was not just Jean-Paul Sartre, but Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre. He was raised by his mother alone, Anne-Marie Schweitzer. Even though she was a single mother, she had plenty of help from her parents. Sartre’s mother needed the help because his father, Jean-Baptiste Sartre, was in the Navy and died when Jean-Paul was just an infant. At the age of thirty four, Sartre was drafted as a meteorologist for the French Army. After being caught in 1940, Sartre spent nine months as a prisoner of war. He was able to receive civilian status. He then became a teacher in a city, right outside of Paris, in 1941. In the years following the war, Sartre became somewhat of an Anti-US activist. Being an Anti-US activist means that he strongly embraced Marxism and frequently visited Cuba. There he spoke with dictator Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. Also, he joined a group whose goal was to expose the US and their war crimes. Sartre had wrote many books based on his experiences of rejection when he was a child. Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize in October 1964, but shockingly Jean-Paul rejected the award for reasons unknown. With the rejection of the Nobel Prize it in turn made history, making Sartre the first person to ever reject the Nobel Prize ” (Sartre A&E). “Sartre wrote No Exit to express his feelings about hell and existentialism. While he was in Paris, in the

Garcin is being escorted to the room where the entire play takes place by the Valet. The reader will realize that Garcin is no longer alive and he is in hell, which is the room in which that he is being taken to. He starts off there alone but is soon accompanied by Inez, who is a damned woman. Inez realizes that she is in hell as explained in this quote by Whitaker, “Though some critics have said that she entered hell with ‘self-knowledge’ or ‘represents Sartre’s point of view’, she clearly exhibits what Sartre had called sincerity in bad faith” (Whitaker 171). Also in this quote by Sartre it explains that Inez does realize what is going on and that the other characters will just have the deal with it and embrace it “We’re in hell; my turn will come” (Sartre 36). Garcin and Inez are then both joined by the next and final character, Estelle, who is the most deserving of the three characters to be in hell. Estelle is in hell because she is selfish and does not care about anyone or anything other than her looks. Her main reason for being in hell is that she had a kid, with a younger man, and did not want the baby so she drowned it. The father of the child witnessed the murder and then committed suicide. Estelle does not feel wrong for doing what she was doing, because she just cares about herself and her own feelings. Once the reader learns about those two