Satrean thesis

Sartre's No Exit is not in any pejorative sense dramatised philosophy. In fact, it might be said of Sartre that, despite his puritanical statements about the function and value of art, his philosophy, whether he realises it or not, aspires to the condition of literature as much as his literature does to the condition of philosophy. Whatever the exact balance we allot, the synthesis in No Exit is admirable. The play, of course, illustrates the Satrean thesis of the impossibility of human relations, but it would be nothing as drama unless we felt that it was an "abstraction blooded," a significant human action that we were seeing, not a mere theorem of despondency.