THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX

Questions in Text:
Think about the place you have chosen as your hell. Does it look ordinary and bourgeois,
like Sartre's drawing room, or is it equipped with literal instruments of torture like
Dante's Inferno? Can the mind be in hell in a beautiful place? Is there a way to find peace
in a hellish physical environment? Enter Sartre's space more fully and imagine how it
would feel to live there endlessly, night and day:

My hell is very close to Satre's . The most powerful torture instrument is the human mind, going insane is the quickest way to desingrate a person's mentality. Although the human mind is also our biggest allie. If you can harvest the power of the mind such as Monk's do then you have the ability to reach enlightenment and therefore you are not in hell at all.

How does Sartre create a sense of place through dialogue? Can you imagine what it feels 

like to stay awake all the time with the lights on with no hope of leaving a specific place? 

How does GARCIN react to this hell? How could you twist your daily activities around 

so that everyday habits become hell? Is there a pattern of circumstances that reinforces 

the experience of hell? 

Through his dialogue he uses imagery in the character's language and the stage directions to convey the setting. Garcin takes almost a pompus approach to the whole situation. It's as if he has no fear of hell and he has lived through this all already, he almost expects more then what he is placed in. Doing the SAME thing everyday with the same results quickly becomes hell. School, Work, Repeat. 

Both Satre and Plato describe humans as almost a dumb and ignorant race. Take for example Satre's use of placing these people in a room and these people don't even realize their in hell. Plato shows a group of humans so fearful of the outside that they refuse to even look at it. Not the main difference here is in Satre's story his group does eventually realize where they are and how terrible it is.