Eighty-one years ago today, on May 27, 1944 (April 6, 1944), Sartre's existential play "Confinement" began to play. On May 27, Sartre's existential play "Confinement" by Jean Paul Sartre opened tonight in Paris. Four characters appeared on the stage, and three of them - two women and one man - were locked in a room waiting for death. The essence of this one-act play can be summed up in one sentence: "The other is hell," Sartre, 36, burst onto the literary scene last year with his book "Being and Nothingness." The work says: Consciousness sets us free, but freedom is a heavy burden; our many choices weigh us down. Some critics regarded Sartre as a pessimist; others said he was merely depicting reality.