I’ve always been intrigued by the idea of Hell as being not the afterlife featuring blatant physical torture, but rather a punishment in the form of deprivation. Think of the myth of Sisyphus, tasked with rolling a boulder up a hill but doomed to always have the boulder roll down before he could reach the summit. Or Tantalus, standing in a pool of water underneath a branch of fruit, but unable to reach either. Or the play No Exit, in which 3 individuals find themselves trapped in a room together in the afterlife, each desiring something from the others that they will never receive, thus the famous line “hell is other people.
Recap: No Exit
