what themes are found in no exit?

Question

looking for general themes found in NO EXIT :the play.
Can somebody please help me find a book that has a common theme?
I need this for an ISU assignment.

Answer 1

The theme is commonly thought to reside in one line near the end of the play: pas besoin de gril: l'enfer, c'est les autres – You don't need red-hot pokers: Hell is—other people! but, rather is an ironic statement coming from Garcin, someone who isn't the most adept at offering a clear understanding of things, and thus meant to be ironic. Rather the message is that hell lies within, in the arbitrary values ascribed to things that are on a crash course ending inevitably in suffering. "Hell is other people" has since entered popular culture to the point where it is a line known to those who have never heard of No Exit.

The last line of the play is also a topic for discussion: Garcin, after refusing to leave the room, says Eh bien, continuons..., most often translated literally "Well, well, let's get on with it...", but others have suggested that this leaves the dark humour of the French untranslated, and perhaps a better cultural equivalent is a darkly ironic "All right, let's get it over with..." (ironic because, since Hell is forever, it will never be "over with.")