Agatha Christie Research Paper

Agatha Christie, full name Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller, was born on September 15, 1890 in Torquay, England. Agatha Christie’s mother’s name is Clarissa Margaret Boehmer. She was an English woman

Linda Pastan is the poet of "After Agatha Christie." This poem addresses the idea that depression can lead to self-harm. it is inferred that the pronounced corpse of the poem is Agatha Christie. Furthermore, Agatha was her own killer. She placed herself in a locked room where no one suspect anything mysterious to occur. However, she was living in a state of depression. Agatha committed suicide thinking that no one would miss her absence. It states in-line six that, "death comes reassuring" indicating that Agatha approved of her immolation. Linda Pastan's play on words, "even the skull smiles to itself" personifies that Agatha found it peaceful to rest alone. Her death unraveled right in front of her eyes for she realized she had no alibi; she

Agatha Christie uses the technique of foreshadowing to help the reader make predictions. When Mr. Blore exits the train in Oakbridge Station, he is greeted by an old man who gives him a message that a squall is coming. “He’s nearer the day of judgement than I am! But there, as it happens, he was wrong…”(Christie 17). This quote helps the reader make a prediction that death could possibly be in the near future. I learned that while reading books, mystery novels in particular, making predictions is necessary to form a connection to the text.

Jane (Laura) Addams was born to Sarah (Weber) Addams and John Huy Addams on September 16, 1860 in Cedarville, Illinois near Rockford and Wisconsin border. She was the eighth of nine children. From this union out of the nine children only three of the daughters and one son survived to see adulthood.

Arnold, Jane. "Detecting Social History: Jews In The Works Of Agatha Christie." Jewish Social Studies 49.3/4 (n.d.): 275-282. Literary Reference Center. Web. 1 June 2016.

Agatha Christie wrote most of her books with the same recurring themes. One of the themes that Christie has in her books is feminism. The definition of feminism is the belief in the need to protect rights, and opportunities for women to be equal to those of men. It is also saying they can go through life without having a man in their lives and living as independent women. Anti-feminism is the opposite of feminism and says women are all the same and do need a man in their life. Christie uses feminism and anti-feminism to view women during the twentieth century in the three books.

Written by Mystery’s number one best selling author, this book is promised to keep you on the edge of your seat. Ten people are brave enough to venture out to an island, invited by a unknown host that is nowhere to be found. The guests have nothing in common except a wicked past. Their fate is sealed by a murder that kills each of the guests off one by one, and only the dead are above suspicion. In the novel And Then There Were None written by Agatha Christie, the mystery elements that were used were: main conflict, setting, characterization, and the author’s techniques of giving clues.

The first example of the influence of her travels would be when Agatha was fifteen, her mom decided to place her in a school that was located in France (By her late teens [1]), at school she learned to speak French, this helped her chose her Belgian, French speaker detective Poirot. Her third book Murder on the Links was also set in France. One of the main travels that affected her writing would after the divorce from her husband Archie, she traveled on a train named The Orient Express to Baghdad and she also

How Does Agatha Christie present flaws in the justice system through her crime books? Agatha Christie presents justice in ‘And then there were none’ (ATTWN) and ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ (MOTOE) in different lights. With both books presenting the system as unjust and doesn’t convict the ‘true’ criminals, yet each book presents it in different ways. ATTWN, focuses more on the ones who have committed the crimes, and MOTOE focusing more on the victims affected by the crime.

“Outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare, Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time. She is best known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, as well as the world’s longest-running play – The Mousetrap” (“Homepage”). The New Historicism Lens is a way for readers to speculate deeper understandings of texts by relating the text to the historical era in which it was set or written. Another aspect of this lens involves looking specifically at how the author’s life impacts their writing. Published in 1939, And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, continues to be one of Christie's most successful books, and with the use of this lens, readers can observe historical happenings at the time it was written and how events in Christie’s life influenced her writing of this text.

In Evil Under the Sun, Agatha Christie explores several different facets of good and of evil. Murder is presented as the ultimate evil: taking the life of a human being is an act that cannot be reversed. The act of murder is made especially grim when it is committed in cold blood. However, there are also other layers of what can be called "evil" from an ethical framework. Each of these layers pertain to the machinations of the human mind when it seeks to do something counter to ethics or moral righteousness. For example, the two murderers weave a web of deceit and lies. Each of the lies is designed to steer the detective away from the truth about the murder, therefore revealing the way evil compounds itself.

This paper will present a compare and contrast of the short story, "Witness for the Prosecution" to the screenplay of the same name written by Agatha Christie. The focus of the similarities and differences will be, a review of the characters and the story.

Murder is often an occurrence in the novels of Agatha Christie and have plots that change the views of the characters as well as the reader. But how does she do it? In two of her most famous novels And Then There Were None and Murder on the Orient Express compare to each other through an overpowering psychoanalytic possession of many people at once. Psychoanalytic possession creates the characters to do what they though they would never do. It comes to them in a mindless way through their egos and super-egos knowing what they want to do through inner most desires and making them come to life. Due to the careful wording of Christie, common illnesses of

Agatha Christie was born in September 1890, Agatha Christie grew up in a middle-class environment in southwestern England, she spent her childhood in a happy environment surrounded by some powerful and independent women, Agatha Christie's mother learned about the importance of education and therefore encouraged Agatha to receive her education from home, she learned to play piano and play mandolin.

The book And Then There Were None was written by Agatha Christie in 1939. The