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Jean Paul Sartre The Wall Analysis

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ABSTRACT
The objective of this paper titled “” is to study the relationship between the concepts of “being” and “death” in Jean Paul Sartre 's short story “The Wall”.

I. INTRODUCTION

“I took everything as seriously as if I were immortal.” Pablo in Sartre 's “The Wall”, is a portrayal of a person who is grappling hard to come into terms with the agony and the anguish of recognizing the reality that “everything ends”. 20th century western philosophy is a story of the struggles of understanding the idea of existence and its crudest reality – death. It was during this period that the concept of death was studied and approached from various directions to understand existence and the “self”. Sartre in his work “Existentialism Is a Humanism” formulated the key existential ideology, that is, “existence precedes essence” and meditated on the idea of existence, the self and death through his various philosophical and literary works. “The Wall”, set in the background of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) portrays the predicament of three war prisoners staring back at life while awaiting their death. Death is perhaps the most striking event in one 's life; although it is true that one may never comprehend physical death in its full force, but the thought of death has always intrigued human beings. “Death” presents itself as an idea that underlines the end of every possible presence or existence. The concept of death has been dealt by

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