Sartre - Hell is Other People

In his play No Exit, Sartre contends that hell is other people. He says this because we perceive that someone is always watching, and that the Look or the Gaze is always upon us. In Sartre’s Being and Nothingness, he describes a situation where someone is peeping through a keyhole, watching someone else. The person watching feels no guilt for doing this at this point, and is absorbed in their observation, when they hear a floorboard creak behind them. Instantly, the thought rushes into their head that someone is watching them, and instead of perceiving the world subjectively, they perceive themselves as someone else would observe them, and feel guilty. The interesting thing about this to me is that no one actually needs to be present to cause this feeling. The floorboard could have creaked behind them without anyone there, and the moment the person hears it creak they would feel ashamed and embarrassed. Similarly, there could be a person there watching them that they don’t know is there, and they would continue peeping through the keyhole. This leads me to believe that hell isn’t other people at all, but it’s created in ourselves through how we would perceive someone else doing whatever we are doing, if that makes sense. The only reason that the Look has any effect on us is because of how we judge and treat others when they make mistakes or do something we think is wrong. This is also why I think that in order to be in True Faith, one must stop judging others and condescending when they mistakes, or he/she will perceive that others are judging and condescending us when we make a mistake, preventing us from achieving True Faith. I don’t know if these ideas are really that new or new at all, but hopefully it stimulates some conversation in the subject.