And Then There Were None Justice

Agatha Christie, the Queen of Suspense, author of And Then There Were None used conflict and irony to teach the theme of justice and judgement. The stories many ironies and constant conflict consistently backs up the theme of justice and judgement. The story starts out with a look into each character’s thoughts, an unusual way to start off the piece. By doing this each character’s thoughts are revealed as they travel to the island which can reveal some of their thoughts and guilt. This is strange because it can reveal who the true murderer is, but it works out well due to there being many different characters all with guilt, and any of them could be the murderer. The earliest part of And Then There Were None supports the theme of justice

One of the biggest ironies is the irony of the character Dr. Armstrong. Usually doctors try to save lives and are overworked. This is ironic because Dr. Armstrong is accused of being the killer by Vera. Vera uses multiple pieces of evidence to accuse Dr. Armstrong of being the killer. Two of these pieces of evidence are that two of the victims were killed by poison, which can be administered correctly by someone who knows how to use needles. Also Dr. Armstrong could be the murderer because he is a doctor and doctors usually work long hours. This leads doctors to be overworked and extremely stressed, which could lead to insanity. This supports the justice and judgement theme because people end up thinking it could be Dr. Armstrong allowing Wargrave freedom to pick them off from least guilty to most guilty. There is also the fact that the poem Ten Little Soldiers almost directly follows the novel, And Then There Were None. The poem Ten Little Soldiers starts with, “Ten little soldier boys went out to

As the poem states there are ten little soldiers and in And Then There Were None there are ten people on the island. The similarities continue in the fact that every character is killed in a way resembling the poem. The order and resemblances being Anthony Marston dies first he dies of poisoning and chokes to death, Mrs. Rogers was second she dies in her sleep, General MacArther was third, he was bludgeoned on the back of the head with a blunt object, Mr. Rogers was fourth she was chopped with an axe or a chopper, Emily Brent was fifth she was injected with a hypodermic needle that contained potassium cyanide, Justice Wargrave was sixth he was "shot in the head", although he does fake his death, Dr. Armstrong was seventh he drowned in the sea for an unknown reason, William Blore was eighth his head gets crushed by a large marble bear clock which corresponds well with the nursery rhyme, Philip Lombard was ninth Vera shoots him because she believes he is the killer, Vera Claythorne was tenth she hangs herself from guilt of her original crime. The only exception is when the ninth soldier boy Another use of irony and symbolism is the irony of Justice Wargrave having the name justice, this is ironic because he ends up being the judge, jury and executioner in the story. This is also ironic because he decides to give punishment to all of the characters, but by doing so he falls underneath the category of the evil he is