Existentialists: I am me and you are you Existentialists view humanity as individuals whose unique past experiences establish personal characteristics that distinguish us all. This idea can be best expressed in an intuitive statement from a famous individualist, Tarzan. “I Tarzan, you Jane” is at the core of the beliefs of the existential atom. This seemingly simplistic statement relates to existentialism by leading us to the idea of ​​the individualism of man, guiding us towards the belief in existence before essence and introducing us to the notion of freedom of choice. These three beliefs can then be compared to the characters of “Sans exit” by the existential writer Jean-Paul Sartre. On first reading this statement, we notice Tarzan's choice of words. “Me Tarzan, you Jane” implies that Tarzan and Jane are not one and the same person. Rather, they are two different people who lead very different lives. Tarzan, the ape man, is by nature different from his new friend. Existentialists would push this thinking further by saying that since people are always different, they can never be the same. They would then say that each person is an individual and not a copy of a predetermined mold. Jean-Paul Sartre also depicts his characters as individuals, and not as carbon copies of each other. Garcin, a soldier who went on the run, certainly lived a different life from that of the baby killer Estelle. These individualistic qualities lead us to see ourselves through Tarzan's statement, now guiding us to the existential belief of existence before essence. This idea is based on the belief that people are formed from their own past experiences. Tarzan, a lonely boy raised by a pack of gorillas, has not known contact with humanity. Her isolation from the world is the complete opposite of that of Jane's past. Jane, a woman raised in modern-day indulgence, has experienced many unique events that have made her who she is. Jane will never be able to know what Tarzan is like because she will never be able to experience what he experienced. Likewise, Tarzan, the ape man, will never be able to experience what it means to be Jane because he will never be able to experience the unique events of Jane's past. Sartre also gives us characters with completely unique backgrounds. Garcin will never be able to relive Inez's troubled past and Inez, in turn, will never be able to understand why Garcin needs to be told that he is not a coward. Having understood that existentialists view people as individuals who have unique past experiences that make them who they are, existentialists would now bring us to the notion of each character's freedom of choice.