No Exit

Question 0

What do eyelids represent

Answer 0

Lack of respite

Question 1

What do the mirrors in no exit represent

Answer 1

Lack of self recognition

Question 2

What does the bronze statue represent

Answer 2

Design of hell

Question 3

What does the toothbrush represent

Answer 3

Hygiene

Question 4

What does the paper knife represent

Answer 4

Already dead

Question 5

“Well well, let’s get on with it..”

Answer 5

Absurd hero

Question 6

“We have all the electricity we want”

Answer 6

Nazi reference

Question 7

“There is no need for red hot pokers, hell is other people”

Answer 7

Metaphysical hell

Question 8

“I begin to wonder if I really and truly exist”

Answer 8

Existentialism

Question 9

“I’m wondering if there hasn’t been some ghastly mistake”

Answer 9

Self denial

Question 10

“I didn’t. I was a post office clerk”

Answer 10

Class division

Question 11

Who does the Valet represent

Answer 11

He could be represented as Satan himself or someone who works for Satan in delivering people to Hell.

Question 12

Explain the theme of light

Answer 12

The characters cannot escape the light or escape from Hell. They also cannot get a break from eachother

Question 13

Name the other person who rejected the Nobel a prize for literature

Answer 13

Pasternak

Question 14

Name two other works by Sarte

Answer 14

The respectful prostitute and nausea

Question 15

What from Sarte’s childhood may have influenced No Exit

Answer 15

Sarte’s father died while Jean Paul was young and his grandfather took care of him for the most part. His grandfather did not approve of any of Sarte’s works and this may have lead him to depression and to think his life was a living hell

Question 16

Name one person buried in the same cemetery as Sartre

Answer 16

His spouse Simone de Beauvoir

Question 17

Explain the themes of guilt and redemption in No Exit

Answer 17

Each character realizes their wrongdoings or what got them into hell. When they come to the conclusion that they’ll never be able to get out of hell and feel like they should make up for what they did wrong.. For examples Garcin feels guilty for disrespecting his Wife and wants to make up for it

Question 18

How is hell other people

Answer 18

Couple reasons- each character Brings some type of hell to each of the other characters. They can’t escape eachother. The locked doors and walls represent a signify the fact that they are trapped. This is not the standard hell we know. This isn’t labor heavy, torture heavy, hot hell we have been accustomed to hearing about. It’s a mental, psychological, emotional hell that they cannot escape from.