Monologue, a Dialogue With the Self: Reflections Term Paper

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Monologue, a Dialogue with the Self: Reflections on "No Exit" by Sartre

The Self: There is "No Exit" from hell -- not in Christian, theological terms, but by the terms set by Sartre's play of the same name, there is no exit from the self. The varieties of characters that populate the waiting room of hell are condemned for all eternity to examine and reexamine their lives. Socrates may have said that the unexamined life is not worth living, but the over-examined life, when imposed upon the human psyche by reading too much philosophy and self-improvement literature or self-imposed as the result of egocentrism, can be equally eviscerating.

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Hell is other people, says the author. Imagine one's self with two individuals one despises, and then one has "No Exit" -- or imagine one's self alone, in a waiting room, locked with the personifications, all of the absurd worries and obsessions of the thoughts collected over a lifetime. That truly would be hell, for even to be locked in a room of hatred beings would at least expose one to the relief….....

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