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The Effect Of Guilt In And Then There Were None By Agatha Christie

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In the book And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, Christie writes the effect of guilt emerging as one of the major underlying themes in her book. For example a character who portrays guilt is Ethel Rogers. In the book all the characters are accused of someone's death through a record player. When Mrs. Rogers heard her accusation, she randomly fainted. (CX) Mrs. Rogers fainted because she felt either guilty of the accusation or guilty of committing that crime. The accusation was that she and her husband, Thomas Rogers, brought the death of Jennifer Brady. It states, “She broke down completely and fainted. The shock of having her wickedness brought home to her was too much for her. She literally died of fear.” This is a different character's

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