Michael Shannon
Mrs. Siebert
English 9
24 January 20223
The Wrong Acts of Justice Do people deserve justice for murdering someone no matter how it is served? In the book, And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, justice is given to murderers but not in the way that it should be done. These murderers are killed for the act that they have done. They are not killed by any sort of law. They are each murdered one by one. Justice Wargrave feels the need to serve justice to these people on the island, yet what he does is completely wrong.
Each character feels differently about their committed act of murder. Some feel lots of remorse, some feel little, and some feel none. The killer, Justice Wargrave takes note of these feelings of guilt
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He had a way of justice he wanted for her, but not from murder. The more murders Wargrave committed on the island, the closer it drove Vera to insanity. These events were a part of Wargrave's plan all along. He wanted to bring the most guilty, Vera, to commit suicide. He knows it's working by how she is acting. For example, some of the things that upset her were the record players telling everyone that she was murdered, her seeing all this murder happen around her, she notices the figurines on the table begin to move, something even happened to her in her room that causes her to scream and pass out. This was all a part of Wargrave’s plan and it was working perfectly. He was giving her what she deserved by making her go insane. He was serving the justice he felt needed to be given. All he wanted out of this was justice. Wargrave feels that justice is very important and needs to be served properly. He knows that “It is abhorrent to me that an innocent person or creature should suffer or die by any act of mine. I have always felt strongly that right should prevail” (286). No one should be killed for something they didn't do, but people who did something wrong de deserve justice. This is what Wargrave is doing. This was the final step of his plan. When there are only two other people and him left on the island, he does not have to commit any more murder, for the characters do it for him. They turn on one another. Vera Clayhtorne