Pneumonia, gas and twelve bullets - that's how Inès, Estelle and Garcin came to their deaths before they were brought here by an obscure servant. To hell, they know at once, even though Sartre does without hellfire and similar trappings. For Sartre, the hell in which his three antagonists find themselves is a conditio humana, a liminal situation from which there is no escape. Layer by layer, they reveal their defeats and cruelties. As different as they seem, they are united by a common struggle for what they are, what they wanted to be, and what they want to be seen as. Who am I, who are the others? When Sartre describes the Other as hell, perhaps it is because he is so similar to a self?
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