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No Exit

Jean-Paul Sartre (1944)

“Three damned souls locked in a drawing room discover that hell needs no torture chambers -- only other people.”

EraExistentialist

Pages46

Difficulty★★★☆☆ Challenging

AP Appearances6

existentialism self-deception the-gaze freedom bad-faith hell-as-others identityHigh SchoolAP EnglishCollege

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existentialism

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self-deception

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freedom

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identity

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