Sarte's "The Wall": Themes

Part I of Essay
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 ....

Part II of Essay
.... I spoke in public meeetings: I took everything as seriously as if I were immortal. At that moment I felt that I had my whole life in front of me and I thought, "It's a damned lie." It was worth nothing because it was finished." In this passage Pablo realizes that his entire life has been a continuous sequence of events and eventually the outcome must be the same for him as well as all men, which is death. This passage also shows the reader that Pablo, like most people, deceives himself about mortality by not dealing wiht it conscient ....