Sartre’s “The Wall”

  This is so Alfred Hitchcock or the Twilight Zone. You may have YouTubed some of these that were decidedly before your time. Go to YouTube some time and see a few. Tightly wound. Psychologically acute. Always a “punch” at the end. Sartre’s “The Wall” examines independent action and free will. Society levies restrictions. The essential is that there is no free lunch. There is no free anything. There is always a price to pay. It might be loss of freedom, diminishment of a sense of self, or cost. We may think that we are independent, but someone connects our homes with power, someone else paves the road on which we drive, and yet another person operates on an ill person’s appendix. No man is an island (John Donne). We might think that we can be free of society, but everywhere man is in chains (Jean-Jacques Rousseau). For this assignment, please examine the role of the Belgian doctor. One paragraph. C. 100 words. Lead with a targeted thesis. Offer support from the literature. Quotes do not count toward the word range. Provide the word count. exclusive fo quotes.