Blog #5 Why is No Exit's hell different from the traditional view of it? What was the author's intent?

The author’s purpose was to let us see that our ideas, our images of something, our prejudices of the things we “are suppose to know”. He tries to question our foundations of knowledge. Why we say that in hell there are tools of torture? Why we say there’s fire all around hell and it’s underground?  At the end no one knows for sure what it’s in the after world. It can be nothingness, heaven and hell, reincarnation, no one knows.

He starts to shatter our foundations when he presents a hell without hell. A simple place without tortures or fire, without eternal pain or suffering.  Just people. That also makes you think. Why only people? Maybe hell is about pain and suffering, and that is delivered by people. That’s deep and makes you think what kind of living beings are we.

It also makes you think about how could that hell be bad, how can that could inflict us damage for eternity. And there’s no real answer. For every single person there's a different truth for what's to come.