"No Exit" response

The cave by Plato and No Exit are similar in their themes and how the others go about describing the theme and causing the reader to feel and understand what is meant to be transmitted through the works. Both show that we are our own torture, our own imprisonment. We hold ourselves back from the truth or freedom, we keep ourselves from resting or taking a break. We stress ourselves by simply following what we want to and not what is beneficial to us as a growing being. We hinder our own learning through denial and misdirection. Both authors use a melancholy tone, a somber tone that causes the reader to almost feel sorry for the prisoners, it causes the reader to almost feel the burden and punishment that the prisoners must suffer. In the cave the only restrictions are the people themselves as they have the ability to free themselves but are too afraid to. I think it is different in No Exit as it is a story that is supposed to show how human nature restricts us from what we think we want. They both show that other people or ourselves are the torturers.