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Essay Archive - Sarte's "The Wall": Themes
Sarte's "The Wall": Themes
The Wall by Sarte, manifest several complex existential themes such
as self-deception and meaninglessness, through the first-person perspective
of the main character's, Pablo Ibbieta, confrontation with death. Pablo
Ibbieta is portrayed as a common POW who is forced into a situation where
he not only must come to realize his own personal mortality, but must also
view and analyze the personal struggle with mortality of two other men,
Jean and Tom. All three men are informed by a prison guard that they are
going to be executed the next d....
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