Lit Anal #5 No Exit

1. This book, or short story, is about three people that end up in hell. These people are two women, Estelle and Inez, and Garcin the male. These three people suspect of each other to be the torturer that will make them suffer but truly none of them are. As the story passes we realize that they are living hell for each other because they hate everything about each other. It seems they can not agree with anything and they just want to kill and get rid of each other. 

2 I feel that the theme of the play is kind of like karma. In the end you will end up receiving what you really deserve. These people where making others suffer in the real world so it is their time to suffer in hell is it not? Living an eternity with everything you hate about yourself and others must suck. However when you make it as so for yourself then you really can not change it.

3. The tone is depressing and at the same time philosophical. There is a lot of anger and sadness thrown around in this story but the characters also do a lot of self studying to understand what exactly they are in hell for and why they ended up with the two people they did. The depressing part of "...being a coward." and not being able to live that way is sad and at the same time it took him a lot of philosophical thinking about himself.

4. Simile : "Oh just look at her face, all scarlet like a tomato."

   

 " And presently we shall be naked, as new born babies"

Repetition:  When Garcin keeps saying over and over and asking if he is a coward. Towards the end of the play.

Imagery: "A man's drowning, choking, sinking by inches, till only his eyes are just above water."

Rhetorical question: "And what use do you suppose I have for one? Do you know who I was?"

Anaphora: "No, I wasn't joking. No mirrors, I notice. No windows. "

Characterization:

1. Direct Characterization

 Garcin tells us exactly the kind of person he is, he is a wife beater "I'm here because I treated my wife abominably." Inez doesn't hold back either and calls herself “a damned bitch." They really have no shame in stating exactly who they are.

2. Indirect characterization

You can tell this play was written in a different time because no one speaks like this "What’s the point of play-acting, trying to throw dust in each other's eyes? We're all tarred with the same brush." People will just telling you "Stop bull$hittng me and tell me why you are really here in hell?" As far as the syntax, this is a play and the entire play consists of non-stop dialogue. Syntax does not change as you change from character to character but diction obviously changes because people have different things to say. Inez will bluntly tell it as she sees it. When she was scribing herself to the others, she called herself a bitch. She saw through everyone's b.s. that they had committed crimes and weren't here by accident.
3. There is no real protagonist. All three characters in this one act are equally important in the play. I think they are static characters because they don't really change by the end of the story. The whole purpose of being placed in that room is not to learn a lesson but to suffer from one's mistakes. Not one of the three characters repented or regretted what they had done. They merely talked about committing the crime and even then it was like pulling teeth trying to get Estelle to admit to what she had done. They don't change, they merely wish they had been placed with other people.

 4. I really do feel that I actually met the characters of this play because they had really realistic characteristics about themselves. They were not some kind of magic powered fairy that could do miracles but real people. The people that sometimes we know are in our life and they have every trait that we hate about ourselves and therefor we hate them. I did feel many emotions like annoyance when I was reading this play. Overall a great read and a very interesting way  of thinking about life.