And Then There Were None Justice

Agatha Christie, author of the murder mystery And Then There Were None, used foreshadowing and both external and internal conflict to portray the theme of her novel that justice can be served for the crimes that go unpunished. Christie used these elements because she enjoyed mystery and she liked to keep her readers engaged while reading. Agatha Christie is still considered one of the best, if not, the best murder mystery writer today because she wrote the first murder mystery novel and she wrote many more after that that was well loved by people.

And Then There Were None is an enthralling mystery novel by esteemed author Agatha Christie. It is a horror filled scenario in which ten people are trapped on an island, and get killed off one by one, the deaths corresponding with the children's rhyme ‘Ten Little Indians.’ In order to benefit themselves, three alliances are formed throughout the novel: between Blore, Armstrong, and Lombard; Claythorne and Lombard; and Armstrong and Wargrave. The alliances have great impact on the characters’ actions and the novel itself, in aiding or hindering the murderer, and building suspense as alliances fall.

Not only does Christie intertwine characterization in her novel to show the evil side of human nature in Vera and Lombard, but also in Justice Wargrave. Wargraves character in this novel is portrayed as a flat personality. In this novel Christie does not speak much about Wargrave, she only reveals one or two personality traits. “In the corner of a first-class smoking carriage, Mr. Justice Wargrave, lately retired from the bench, puffed at a cigar and ran an interested eye through the political news in the Times.” This passage shows only a few characteristics about the identity of Wargrave, it shows that he is a wealthy man being able to ride in a first-class carriage, and it also shows that he is an ex officio (1). “Only Mr. Justice Wargrave and Miss Brent seemed comparatively unmoved.” This passage also enlightens the fact that Christie made Wargrave is a flat character. In this novel it does not show Wargrave to participate in many group discussion nor does it show his fear in this situation. In applying this characterization to Wargrave it allows the other characters to take no account of Wargrave to be responsible for the

In The Republic, the great philosopher Plato attempts to reveal through the character and dialogues of Socrates that justice is better when it is the good for which men must strive for, regardless of whether they could be unjust and still be rewarded. His method is to use dialectic, the asking and answering of questions. This method leads the audience from one point to another, supposedly with indisputable logic by obtaining agreement to each point before going on to the next, therefore, building an argument.

“Ten little soldier boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were Nine…One little soldier boy left all alone; he went and hanged himself And then there were None” (Green). A group of 10 strangers are sent to the mysterious Soldier Island for a so called vacation. What they don’t know is that there is one murderer among them. During their first night on the island, a mysterious record reveals the darkest secret of each person, they are murderers. Soon after that, the first murder is committed and death is among them. As the crowd of ten diminishes, the china soldiers on the table do as well, until there are none. In And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, the theme of guilt is portrayed when Vera Claythorne hangs herself, when the record is played on the gramophone, and when Miss Emily Brent has flashbacks.

The author Agatha Christie who wrote the novel And Then There Were None set the theme of a powerful journey leading the main characters in a decision of survival and fate, the way the author Agatha Christie goes into different elements to show how this theme came about is irony. She uses this technique to get the audiences full attention on how the mystery in this novel bring about missing characters and will be the lost standing Agatha Christie is not one of your ordinary authors; she brings a point in the novel which is a very suspenseful view that will catch your attention.

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.

Responsibility is a large debate in the novel And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. Some may argue that wrongful actions should lead to a certain punishment, which is what is portrayed in this book. On the other hand, the level of responsibility depends on the level of intention and malic, thus, determining the degree of punishment.

Justice is one of, if not, the most important themes in the novel And Then There Were None. And Then There Were None puts a twist on the way justice is achieved by making the murder victims murderers themselves, making the reader think if the murders were acts of justice or were they the insane acts of a crazy man. Judge Wargrave, we find out at the very end of the book, is the killer but acts as the detective throughout the book, making it a shocking ending when we find out that he did it. Wargrave's idea on justice may seem warped to us, but in his mind it makes perfect sense.

First, there were ten, a curious group of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a private island off the coast of Devon. There host, a millionaire unknown to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past there unwilling to reveal, and a secret that will seal their fate. For each has been marked for murder. One by one they fall prey, Before the weekend is out, there will be none. And only the dead are above suspicion. In then ten little Indians when a group of 10 strangers is invited to a party at a mansion in the Alps, each arrives expecting entertainment. However, a recorded message from their absent host informs them that each guest has been responsible for someone's death, and consequently each

Consequently, the guests, one by one, are mysteriously murdered. The guests that remain soon realize that all of the deaths are linked to one thing: the nursery rhyme located in each of the bedrooms in the house. Unbelievable as that may be, the guests begin to turn on each other becoming very paranoid and suspecting everyone that poses a threat. And Then There Were None keeps the reader guessing until the very end when the unlikely subject, Justice Wargrave, the retired judge, is the mastermind behind the mass murders. Through his sense of justice and longing to invent the perfect murder mystery, Wargrave succeeded in killing all nine guests going unsuspected. In his confession, he describes how he constructed his perfect murders and how he killed himself so that no inspector could solve the mystery. The strange mystery of Indian Island remains unsolved for the detectives, but the guilt of knowing the murderer will linger on the reader’s lips.

And Then There Were None was a fantastic, fear-filled fiction with precise murders taken from the perspectives of the victims. Exactly as planned, the victims were eliminated one by one to a specific theme: a nursery rhyme. This psychotic killer matched the murders with lines from the childish poem “Ten Little Soldier Boys.” This particular rhyme was conveniently placed around the building on Soldier Island, in which all of the victims were held hostage. After a few of the murders had occurred, the victims became very aware of their situation and the connection between the murders and the rhyme.

In her novels “Death on the Nile” and “And Then There Were None” Agatha Christie uses foreshadowing and both external and internal conflict to portray the theme of her novel, the idea that justice will always triumph. In "Death on the Nile" Poiret undertakes the position of bringing about what’s due to the guilty character. At the same time in “And Then There Were None" the protagonist is unclear because while Justice Wargrave is the one seeking justice, his methods are flawed. Agatha Christie uses mystery in both of her books to emphasize how the truth will come out in the end. This is clearly shown in “Death on The Nile” where the outcome is clear-cut while “And Then There Were None” is undefined and elusive. Although both books use morbid and unethical methods of showing their objective, both stress their point and Agatha Christie's opinion on

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

from the poem in the book. They were made to think there was a killer on the loose there and