What did SATRE mean when he said “HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE”?
Sartre’s metaphor in No Exit “hell is other people” is always misunderstood. He did not mean to say that other people are hell-ish, cruel, or bad. Sartre postulated that when we think of ourselves, we use knowledge of us that other people have. We judge ourselves with the means other people have and use to judge ourselves. And, others’ judgments about us are in whatever we say about ourselves. Thus if relations with someone else are twisted or destructive then that other person can only be hell. That’s what Sartre really meant in his metaphor.
