THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX

1. The place I've chosen as hell is ordinary, completely boring and empty. But I do believe the mind can exist in hell in a beautiful place. The mind creates their own version of hell & I feel that the mind can fear a beautiful place. That it is not attainable & that they are not deserving of it, this beautiful place is haunting them. I feel like the mind is capable of finding peace in a hellish environment. They have to want peace so bad that they are willing to battle their most feared external/internal demons to achieve it.
2. Hell is never-ending. Hell drags on & on until you think its over & picks right back up again. You do not get the chance to breathe, there is a constant weight over your shoulders that makes living unbearable. With hell, one can only handle so much so they find distractions to cope from the hell that they are in.
3. Sartre creates an atmosphere that is familiar to an individual. He describes everyday activities that we unconsciously do & presents them in a way that we never thought twice about through his dialogue between Garcin & Valet. Lights can be blinding, often bright lights can deceive you from a destined path, create a misleading place of desire. The lights can represent the future, but since the future is so bright, you become lost on your way to capturing this light. Garcin asks questions that seem absurd to Valet, but actually start to unravel why things are this way. Everyday you become succumbed to the comfort of hell that you just get used to it, to the point that you don't know anything else besides hell. Hell is like a roller coaster that you can never get off of. You experience all these twists & turns & right when you think the bad part is over, you are spun backwards. You never even saw it coming.

Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" focused on stepping away from the cave to become enlightened by the world & everything we fear. We need to push beyond our boundaries & discover the truth, this is the central message behind Plato's theory. Socrates & Glaucon represent the student & teacher relationship of the passage. They are inquisitors, becoming enlightened with the truth & what they have yet to understand.

While Sartre focused on how the light is blinding & misleading if we focus on it for too long. Sin is exposed in the waiting room of some sorts. It is ordinary, there is no source of entertainment. The three main characters are all opposites of each other & essentially torture each other to know end. They watch as their former lives go by while they are stuck with each other forever. They acknowledge each other's faults, but not their own which causes hell among the three.