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A 5 page paper discussing whether the three condemned characters of Sartre's play would have had a more productive life in More's 'Utopia' or Voltaire's 'Eldorado' (from 'Candide'). The paper concludes that despite the fact that the most famous line from 'No Exit' is Garcin's exclamation that 'Hell is other people,' Hell is really in yourself, and no physical Utopian surroundings can transform it into heaven. No additional sources listed.
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as sensationalistic as leaping flames or red hot pincers. But the three characters in Sartres "Close Quarters" (for that is what the original title actually meant in French) are uniquely
situated to serve as the perfect torturers of the other two, and although no heat is involved, the result is exquisitely painful. But why would anyone want to
torture another human being? It is common nowadays to attribute all lack of virtue to ones environment. This idea has gone in and out of style for centuries; in fact,
in the sixteenth century, when Thomas More wrote his Utopia, and again in the seventeenth when Voltaire wrote Candide, Renaissance and Enlightenment thinkers were pushing the idea of the primacy
of nurture over nature; in a perfect environment, they argued, man would be perfect. But would he? This paper will examine Sartres three denizens of hell and make a
determination about whether any of them would "make it" in Utopia or Eldorado. There are three characters in the little closed room in which all the action takes place: Inez,
a malicious lesbian who perceives herself as rotten, evil and vicious (which she is), and whose only method of forging relationships is to control and destroy; Estelle, an adulterous young
woman who all her life has rejected any opportunity to choose her path in life, as well as any responsibility for her actions; and Garcin, a deserter who died with
his comrades believing he was a coward, and who desperately needs validation that his life was indeed worth living. The most powerful character in Sartres play is clearly Inez. Her
sexual desires have not abated with death, and she is intensely attracted to the narcissistic Estelle. But she does not want to love or protect her, as one might expect;
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