Sartre's 1944 one-act play in which three people (Garcin, Inès, Estelle) are condemned to spend eternity together in a single room — and whose conclusion 'Hell is other people' is the most quoted line in existentialist philosophy.
Demonstrates that hell is not torture chambers but the inescapable gaze of the Other — the consciousness that sees us from outside and fixes us in an identity we cannot control — making the Other's gaze the structure of self-consciousness rather than merely a social inconvenience.
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