The Flies evoke guilt from those who committed them. Sartre does this to reiterate the importance of amenability; he wants to prove that remorse should only be felt if one believes the act committed is wrong. By acting in what he believes to be a righteous way and killing the king and queen, Orestes takes responsibility for his actions without feeling any remorse for them. The Flies The Flies () is a play by Jean-Paul Sartre, written in 1943. It is an adaptation of the Electra myth, previously used by the Greek playwrights Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides. The play recounts the story
Situation (Sartre) and the Situationist International is clarified by Peter Wollen in his essay "Bitter victory". Situation (Sartre) One of the first times in which Jean-Paul Sartre discussed the concept of situation () was in his 1943 "Being and Nothingness", where he famously said that Earlier in 1939, in his short story "The Childhood of a Leader", collected in his famous "The Wall", referring to a fake turd, he said that in pranks "There is more destructive power in them than in all the works of Lenin." Another famous use of the term was in 1945, in his editorial of the first