Book Review; Thou Art That (Campbell) No Exit and Dirty Hands (Sartre) Custom Essay

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Thou Art That (Campbell)
‘No Exit’ and ‘Dirty Hands (Sartre)
sources: only the actual books
You must pick one question from each of the two plays, and one question from Campbell (a total of three questions). Answer each question in a minimum of 100 words. The papers will be put through SafeAssign before being graded!!!! This exam is intended to be taken with the use of a text of the plays, your class notes, and your own knowledge of each. You may have your class notes available to consult while taking the test.
1. Define existentialism and discuss how it motivates the action in ‘Dirty Hands.’ Use specific examples from the plays.

2. Give a character sketch of each of the three main characters in ‘No Exit.’ Also, discuss how each is appropriately selected to make a hell of their time together.

3. In your own opinion, which character or characters is/are to blame or credit for the ‘troubles’ represented in ‘Dirty Hands’? How might Sartre and the other existentialists feel about your assessment?

4. What lessons, moral or otherwise, are to be learned from ‘No Exit’?

5. What is the joke or comic exaggeration at play in Sartre’s view of the afterlife in ‘No Exit’?

6. Joseph Campbell thought that each person’s life could be equated to a heroic journey. How does the embracing of the cosmic view of humanity open the human life to the heroic concept?

7. Campbell’s four purposes for mythology speak of mythology nurturing a person through the stages of life. How can mythology do this?

8. How is a person’s internal makeup like the composition of the greater universe from the point of view of Campbell’s assessment of human life?

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