Skip to main content

Questions tagged [no-exit]

For questions about 'No Exit' ('Huis clos', 1944) by Jean-Paul Sartre. Use with the tags [jean-paul-sartre] and [french-language].

Filter by
Sorted by
Tagged with
0 votes
1 answer
447 views

Huis Clos Description of the room

How does the room in hell in the first scene of the French play Huis Clos (No Exit in English) by Jean-Paul Sartre look like and how does Joseph Garcin react to it?
calculatormathematical's user avatar
13 votes
2 answers
2k views

Why did the characters in "No Exit" agree to torment each other?

Once the characters in No Exit realized that they were placed there to torment each other, why didn't they refuse to do so? When Joseph says "eh bien, continuons" ("very well, let's get on with it") ...
EJoshuaS - Stand with Ukraine's user avatar