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Guilt In And Then There Were None By Agatha Christie

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Guilt in the mind, a mistaken truth, a vigilante in disguise. We all feel guilt, in one way or another, in every action we take. It's that little part in our head that questions each of our actions. Most people have never committed a murder, including author Agatha Christie, but she displays the effect of guilt in such a beautiful way in the book “And then there were none” that we could question her technique for writing stories.

When we see guilt in the book, it radiates from character Vera Claythorne. She is the perfect example because of numerous cases of hallucinations and doubt of her crime. “A rope with a noose all ready? And a chair to stand upon-a chair that could be kicked away… That was what murder was-as easy as that!... Hugo was there to see she did what she had to do.”(Christie, 268-269). She is in the doubt of her crimes and saw Hugo several times on the island and decided to do what Hugo wanted her to do, to die. …show more content…

He watched all of his victims die in their ways, and killed himself in response. His actions are the definition of a vigilante, but was he in right. “Cases of deliberate murder-and all quite untouchable by the law… I began, secretly, to collect victims… I watched the faces of my guests closely during that indictment and I had no doubt whatever that one and all were guilty(of a murder)“(Christie,288-293) which proves he has the right to execute, however since it was not morally right, the proper punishment for 10 murders is death itself, and Wargrave knew it too which is why he ended his life

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