"Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act." -Jean-Paul Sartre
The Flies -- the French philosopher and playwright's 1943 retelling of the myth of Electra -- had already been recounted in several formats in antiquity (including the Aeschylus' Oresteia). Sartre's existentialist take results in some comments about man's meaninglessness: "Would you oust them from the favor of the gods?" Sartre wrote through the character of Jupiter/Zeus. "What, moreover, could you give them in exchange? Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom -- ah, the soul-destroying boredom -- of long days of mild content."
