This essay is on setting differences using the works of Dante's The Inferno and Jean Paul Sartre's No Exit.

Adam looks about spotting all the important people that will influence the rest of his life. He takes a deep breath and prepares to make this his last and final addition to life. Quietly he draws back from the church as if to stop time, this moment may define him as a man. He turns to look at the priest as if to reply his answer, but suddenly he realizes the hand he is holding is as cold as death. Quickly he snaps back into reality recognizing he is not asking for his bride's hand in marriage, but burying her. Once again his mind tricked him into thinking that he was starting all over again with a new chance; however, as in life, sometimes there are no second chances.

Dante's Inferno and Jean Paul Sartre's No Exit illustrate irony in setting in similar ways, such that there are no second chances in life. Both works take the readers into the minds of their authors where each author gives their interpretation of hell. Dante's and Jean Paul Sartre's works both have similar aspects of setting that are expressed in similar styles. Through symbolism, representation, and fin

The relationship that Jean Paul Sartre describes in the play No Exit is similar to Dante's style; however, he has a theme to his punishment. In the play each character has committed a sin that he or she pays for in hell; therefore, each character is the other character's hell. For example, Inez, committee of the carnal sin, falls in love with Estelle at first sight; however, Estelle, consumed with always being the center of attention to a man, falls in love with Garcin. Garcin, a flatterer, could never love one such as Estelle and completes the circle by falling in love with Inez. A circle of lust similar to Dante's circles that almost mock the circle of eternal light and peace, the true way of God.

ite physical details each author establishes

"What I was living, the same I now, dead"(p. 109, l. 66) stated Dante in his work The Inferno. The setting reinforces this theme that the irony of the sin committed will be the punishment received. Setting in both of these works expressed the ironical nature of both these writers and how they used this to give insight to their work. Through the symbolism, representation, and finite physical details Dante and Jean Paul Sartre both exhibited the essence of the meaning of irony. These various literary devicestransform a work of literature

into a style with which readers can both identify and understand, yet also taking them to the next level. When setting can be interpreted ironically in many levels, something as simple as a few chairs and a table could represent Hell's Kitchen.

irony, yet also reinforces his theme. When Dante wrote The Inferno his mind thrived on the different levels of interpretation; likewise, Jean Paul Sartre's mind thrived on this, and he patterned No Exit after Dante's work.

Finally setting elaborates its ironical qualities as certain details of both settings from The Inferno and No Exit make the amosphere of both works seem almost a product of their hell. Each direct physical setting of the circles of hell in Dante's Inferno show a unique atmosphere that maximiz

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