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for our own knowledge of ourselves. When we think about ourselves, when we try to know ourselves basically we use the knowledge which other people already have. People are in hell because of this dependence on •other peojflefc Opinion and which they are unwilling or unable to change. ”
People are dead when they are encrusted in a set of habits and customs, when they harbor judgments about them which make them suffer, but do not even try to change them. Such people to Sartre are for all intent and purposes dead.”
Dead in the sense that they could break out of the frame of their worries, their concerns and their habits and that they continue in many cases to be the victims of judgments passed on by other people. I wanted to show by means of the absurd the importance of freedom, that is to say the importance of changing acts by other acts. No matter what circle of hell we are living in we are free to break out of it. And if people do not break out, they are staying there of their own free will.”
The three characters in “No Exit,” Inez, Estelle, and Gardn, are unable to
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