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"Others are hell" comes from the French writer Jean-Paul Sartre's "Confinement".

Understanding of "others are hell";

If a person's relationship with others deteriorates and gets worse, then others are hell ... There are quite a few people living in hell in the world because they rely too much on other people's judgment. But that doesn't mean you can't have other relationships with others. It is extremely important to change your behavior.

Man is always in the relationship with the other, and his freedom must be realized in the relationship with the other. It is impossible for a completely isolated individual to survive, and of course there is no freedom. Man himself is just a concept relative to others. Without others, people are no longer people, so people need others and cannot live without others.

In the relationship with others, if you choose everything to realize your selfish and despicable desires, even at the expense of others' freedom to realize your desires, then you are pushing others into hell, and others' lives are the projection of their lives, and those who harm others will inevitably harm themselves!

All "hell" begins with selfish choice, and then "kills the fish in the pool". The result can only be that everyone lives in a "no one is better" hell, trying to harm others and playing tricks on others, and the final result must be to harm themselves and lift a rock to drop on their own feet. In other words, if you are the cause of the deterioration of your relationship with others, you will have to suffer from hell.

Choosing a narrow and selfish mind can become your own hell, and choosing a cheerful and broad mind can become a paradise for others. There is only one layer between heaven and hell-see how all beings choose.

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The Origin of "Others are Hell" —— Brief introduction of the content of confinement;

"Confinement" mainly describes three sinners who were thrown into hell after their death, namely Innes, a post office clerk, estelle, a Parisian lady, Garcin, a newspaper editor, and a trite servant in hell. When they first met in the secret room of hell, they were wary of each other and hid their evil deeds:

Garsin tried his best to convince others that he was a hero. In fact, he was a coward who was executed for running away in World War II. At the same time, he is a sadist, indulging in debauchery and torturing his wife. Estelle concealed the identity of the sex maniac and the guilt of infanticide, lied that she was a chaste woman, and ruined her youth for her wife.

Ines remembers the existence of "others" with hostility in order to cover up his gay past as much as possible. However, they not only shut themselves off from each other, but also "torture" others. Everyone exists in the eyes of others all the time, and is examined and supervised. Because they didn't get rid of their bad habits before they died, their true colors were soon exposed.

Once exposed, they have no scruples, and the three people form a two-way triangle relationship that has been pursuing each other and the other has been mutually exclusive: Garsin hopes to get Ines to reject estelle; Ines hopes that estelle will reject Garcin; Estelle wants Garcin to reject Ines. Three tragic souls are like sitting on a merry-go-round, always in a "situation" where they can never chase each other.

Mutual pursuit has become unbearable suffering, and no one can get it, no one can have peace, and no one can live without it. If it is miserable, it will be trapped in endless hell. Finally, Garcin realized that there were no torture devices in hell: "Why use the grill? Others are hell! " The play ends with Garcin saying "OK, let's go on" helplessly.

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