Questions for Sartre's "No Exit"

1.) Think about the place you have chosen as your hell. Does it look ordinary and bourgeois, like Sartre's drawing room, or is it equipped with literal instruments of torture like Dante's Inferno? Can the mind be in hell in a beautiful place? Is there a way to find peace in a hellish physical environment? Enter Sartre's space more fully and imagine how it would feel to live there endlessly, night and day:

• My hell is just a big lake of fire that never dies. 
• No the mind cannot be in hell and in a beautiful place.
• There is no way to find peace in a hellish physical environment because you are constantly bombarded by your brain feeding things to your mind endlessly.

2.) Could hell be described as too much of anything without a break? Are variety, moderation and balance instruments we use to keep us from boiling in any inferno of excess,' whether it be cheesecake or ravenous sex?

• In our modern language, hell can be described as something that is like really cold, really difficult, really this, really that, etc. But, really, it is true, hell can be described as too much of anything without a break.
• Yes, variety, moderation, and balance are instruments we use to keep us sane, after all, we are human, and we must be able to have that balance in order to have a life that is in the middle between peaceful and insane.

3.) How does Sartre create a sense of place through dialogue? Can you imagine what it feels like to stay awake all the time with the lights on with no hope of leaving a specific place? How does GARCIN react to this hell? How could you twist your daily activities around so that everyday habits become hell? Is there a pattern of circumstances that reinforces the experience of hell?

• Sartre uses specific words in the dialogue to be like key words for the readers to sense where the characters are in.
• I can't imagine what it would feel like to stay awake all the time with the lights on with no hope of leaving a specific place because usually when it is dark, my mind tends to wander and go to a place where my mind has always wanted to go. Usually this is happening when I am sleeping, or dumping my mental trash.
• Garcin thinks his newspaper caused him to go to hell because of the war that broke out due to his newspaper. He describes the place as stifling hot.
• Maybe I could just do one daily activity which would turn into a never ending hell.
• Yes, there is a pattern of circumstances that reinforces the experience of hell depending on what you think it is or what you believe it is.