Hell

In his well-known play, “No Exit,” French philosopher/ author/playwright Jean Paul Sartre, tells the story of a woman and a man who find themselves together in a comfortable living room. There they are given to understand that they are in hell. At first they appear to be quite content and not at all upset by their predicament — until they are told that there is no exit from that room. They will be there together forever. Knowing this, they proceed to make a hell out of the situation. “That’s the way it is,” Jean Paul Sartre is saying in this play. We find ourselves together in this world, in an impossible, absurd situation. There is no exit. There is nothing for us to do but to take our frustration out on one another and make the world a living hell. And that is one of the dominant moods of our time. Many people are feeling this way as they try to work their way through…