Human Suffering in "No Exit" by Jean-Paul Sartre

No Exit Reflection
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No Exit Reflection
One of the connections between the play No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre and the short story “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin is the fact that they both explore the theme of human suffering. In No Exit, human suffering is shown to emanate from an inability to regulate the nature of one’s individual existence, whereas in “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” human misery is shown to be intermingled with happiness. The second connection between the two works is that they both cover the theme of existence: the former shows existence as a preceding being while the latter illustrates existence as tie...