What is the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre?

Sum up JPS' philosophy in 3 paragraphs. OK Plato said that everything has an ESSENCE; a table has a quality of tableness (so even the broken bits of a table on a rubbish heap are recognizably table bits). / People, too, have an essence with which they are born and which they may strive to change.

This has its similarities, of course, with the doctrine of Original Sin; especially as the innateness of the essence presupposes a divine creator Sartre and his chums, however, wished to make a philosophy based on the premise that there is no divine creator. The conclusion to which they came, therefore, was that EXISTENCE PRECEDES ESSENCE; that one is born with a blank sheet on which one writes one's own character, nature, essence The consequence of this is that each individual is entirely and uniquely responsible for what he or she IS. The realization of this responsibility produces ANGOISSE, the feeling of total solitude and despair Thnat's it, basically.

Please note that this Philosphy of EXISTENTIALISM does not disprove the existence of God, but proceeds from an assumption that God does not exist Which assumption leads to anguish and despair, and serves him right.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.