Justice Wargrave Thesis

A Criminal with Justice in his Name Dennis Rader, also known as the BTK killer, murdered ten people from 1974 to 1991. Justice Wargrave can be labeled as the BTK killer of And Then There Were None: a man with an appetite for bloodlust. Although the motives of the BTK killer are still unknown, we do know Justice’s motive: unpunished criminals obtaining the reprimands they deserve. Justice Wargrave’s infatuation with death began at an early age. In his youth, Wargrave tortured and experimented on innocent animals. Therefore, he could have gotten help for their dishonorable lust to kill and did not. Justice Wargrave murdered ten people because of his fascination with death and his terminal illness, and his reputation is no longer important, mentally tortured them, and planned their demise in advance; therefore, making him the vilest character.

After becoming a judge, his desire to commit a murder begins to grow, “When in due course I came to preside over a court of law, the other secret instinct of mine was encouraged to develop. To see a wretched criminal squirming in the dock, suffering the tortures of the damned, as his doom came slowly and slowly nearer, was to me an exquisite pleasure” (Christie 286). Justice Wargrave extinguished the lives of ten people because he takes pleasure in the deaths of others. He has a very skewed sense of justice. He became a judge in order to murder without consequences. Justice Wargrave grew tired of and letting the executioner have all the fun, “I have wanted-let me admit it frankly-to commit murder myself” (Christie 287). Justice Wargrave blatantly admits to ending life on a grand scale. In some readers’ opinion, Justice Wargrave must be deeply disturbed to wish death upon a fellow human being. Only a person with a lack of morals would consider taking the life of