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JEan-Paul Sartre was an existentialist philosopher. The questions of his philosophy
often come out in his readings. Existentialism questions why we exist.
Existentialists deny the existence of God. Existentialist writers such as Kafka and
Sartre often use prisons and solitary confinement to tell their stories. Often, neither
the reader nor the protagonist is aware of what crime has been committed.
Jean-Paul Sartre's "The Wall" reflects his philosophy and personal experiences.
He worked for the French resistance and was imprisoned by the Germans during
WWII. The story takes place during the Spanish Civil War in an old hospital being
used by the Spanish Fascist's to house prisoners. "The Wall" is told from a first
person, stream of consciousness point-of-view, and uses existentialist philosophy,
to illuminate the follies of totalitarian governments like Fascism, and Nazism.
Like most existentialist writers, Sartre chooses to tell the story of "The Wall" form
the first person stream-of-consciousness point-of-view. We get dialogue from other
characters, but the dialogue is filtered through the mind and thoughts of Pablo. The
terror in the story slowly unfolds from Pablo's mind. In the beginning, Sartre only
gives us a hint of terror. The reality of the situation has not yet set into Pablo's
mind:
They pushed us into a big white room and I began to blink because the light hurt
my eyes. Then I saw a table and four men behind the table, civilians, looking over
the papers. They had bunched another group of prisoners in the back and we had
to cross the whole room to join them. There were several I knew and some others
who must have been foreigners. The two in front of me were blond with round
skulls; they looked alike. I supposed they were French. The smaller one kept
hitching up his pants; nerves. (7)
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