"Thinking Outside the Box"

"No Exit" by  Jean Paul Sartre questions to consider.

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?                       ---Hell would be a place where the people you love and adore aren't there. It doesn't have to look ordinary or extraordinary, its the people that make hell a living hell. The mind can be in hell in a beautiful place. But that people place might undoubtedly be surrounded by little images and trinkets that remind you of the people you love, and you will certainly cry because of the their symbolism. Pain is only for a little while. Once you have received a certain amount of pain, you get used to it and it  no longer seems like an unbearable feeling. You can find that peace by accepting certain things: 1) your loved ones aren't here enduring the same pain, 2) your dead, it doesn't matter how much they hurt you, and 3) pain can be painless if you accept it is all n your head. 
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?                                                                                                                               ---Change is definitely something that keeps life interesting. A change in environment means a whole new discovery that peaks interest in the mind. A change in person means there is a whole new world of information to be learned from that person. Sleep is designed to work out our little aches and frustrations and without we get cranky. The fact that people in hell get no sleep means they don't get the satisfaction of resting = people are unhappy campers. I think variety would make hell bearable and that is why people in hell are in the same room with the same people, forever. Even if its cheesecake or ravenous sex, you will still get tired of it because  your taste-buds might at first love it but then grow to hate it. I don't know about ravenous sex but I'm sure the people involved would love it.
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?                                     ---The characters talk a lot and actually express their emotions very vividly. Garcin asks where the paraphernalia is located and he is obviously surprised by the room, which we the audience assumes is actually quite lavished. I would want the lights to be off that way even if I can't sleep, it makes it easier for me to daydream and pretend to fall asleep. Again, if I do my daily activities without the person I love, hell would definitely be my reality.
4. Compare how Plato and Sartre describe the limitations of our thinking and imply solutions to the problem.                                                                                                                                  ---Learning new information is defined by the ability to learn new things. Plato implies that you have that ability to learn if you grasp it and leave "the cave". Sartre implies that in hell, you are unable to leave that cave therefore the cave is hell for all who have lived outside of it. Solutions to this problem are to live a life where you can say you actually learned from it. Also, live a life where you are happy and not make other people unhappy.