The Killing Of Philip Lombard By Justice Wargrave

The good choices that Justice Wargrave made weren’t necessarily good choices, but deserved choices. The killing of Philip Lombard by Justice Wargrave was one of the more deserved killings that occurred in the book. "Philip Lombard, that upon a date in February, 1932, you were guilty of the death of twenty-one men, members of an East African tribe" (31). Mr. Lombard willingly sent 21 natives to their deaths. While this may sound bad, perhaps the more concerning thing is that he wasn’t ashamed that he did so. Next, was the killing of Vera Claythorne who was in search of riches out of the death that she caused. "Vera Elizabeth Claythorne, that on the 11th day of August, 1935, you killed Cyril Ogilvie Hamilton" (31). Vera orchestrated Cyril’s death and pretended to save him from drowning. Once Cyril died, Hugo would inherit Cyril’s

The killing of Emily Brent was a very questionable killing by Mr. Wargrave. "Emily Caroline Brent, that upon the 5th of November, 1931, you were responsible for the death of Beatrice Taylor" (30). Emily Brent dismissed her maid as punishment for becoming pregnant. Beatrice then killed herself because she was unable to support the newborn. Simply because Emily Brent fired her maid and her maid ended up committing suicide doesn’t mean that Miss Brent deserves to die. Also, Mr. Wargrave made the poor choice of being the one to decide whether or not people die. He felt like he was the one the only one to judge each person, and then kill them because of their “guilty verdict”. “And therefore another kind of soldier. The Unknown Soldier! X! Mr. Owen! U.N. Owen! One Unknown Lunatic at Large!” (79). Justice Wargrave (Mr. Owen) was crazy enough, as stated by many of the members on the island, to believe that he deserved to pick whether or not people died, and how they died, along with when they died. He thought he was