Agatha Christie And Then There Were None Analysis

INTRODUCTION

Agatha Christie was born Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller on September 5, 1890, in Torquay, England. In 1914 she married Colonel Archibald Christie, an aviator in the Royal Flying Corps. They had a daughter, Rosalind, and divorced in 1928. By that time, Christie had begun writing mystery stories, initially in response to a dare from her sister. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, was published in 1920 and featured the debut of one of her most famous characters, the Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot. Christie would go on to become the world’s best-selling writer of mystery novels. By the time Christie began writing, the mystery novel was a well-established genre with definite rules.

And Then There Were None, written in 1939,

But And Then There Were None for the first time not only examines justice, but it also bends the whole idea of mystery by punishing the ones who actually deserved the respective judgement but remained safe by unfair means. Therefore, the killings on Indian Island are arguably acts of justice. In simple words Justice Wargrave plays the role of a detective as well as a culprit on the murderer who punishes the guilty for their unethical past events.

The indirect act of justice done on the island can be drawn in two ways depending on the readers where one can also keep in consideration the perspective of Wargrave that every murder victim deserve death or simply the fact that he actually had authority to sentence the judgements. At least some of the murders are unjust if we do not consider all of Wargrave’s victims murderers. Emily Brent, for example, did not actually kill her servant, Beatrice Taylor. Thus, one could argue that she deserves a lesser punishment for her crime as compared to the actual punishment given to the murder