SARTRE AND STRAITJACKETS
Jean Paul Sartre compares behaving as required by social roles to wearing a straitjacket. In fact, a person should not be defined by the job he is doing, by the status he is in, by his name in the society. People cannot be limited to these. When we define ourselves with only one role; e.g; when we accept roles such as waiter, musician, car mechanic and the like, Sartre accuses us of "bad faith", which is one of the basic principles of the philosophy of Existence. “Are you a musician? What are you actually?” he asks. Even if the answer you give is something you've never been, it's the life you've been dreaming of and your free thinking, and it's your true identity. This is freedom at the core of the person. Otherwise we become social caricatures, which according to Sartre is a terrible sin. Sartre gave birth to this philosophy at Cafe De Flore in Paris St Germain, which is said to be the first place of French kissing, where he had to go because he could not