Were They Justified In Taking Matters Into Their Ownhands?

The book Murder on the Orient Express is one of Agatha Christie’s best works of art.Thereader is very confused until everything is made clear in the end. In the end of the book, wecome to find out that almost everyone in the Stamboul-Calais coach was involved in the murderof Mr. Ratchett. From the very beginning of the book we find that Mr. Ratchett is fearing for hislife. When he is found dead in his compartment, everyone is confounded and tries to remembertheir alibis. But most of them prove to be futile because Mr. Poirot happened to be aworld-renowned detective that proved most of the passengers were involved in the murder. Thatraises the question (about the murderers): “Were they justified in taking matters into their ownhands?”. The answer

His responsibility is to find out how the murder Page 2happened and who did it. We see that when he states, “Then... having placed my solution beforeyou, I have the honor to retire from the case...” (Agatha Christie, 3.9.315). Mrs. Christie makesthe mystery very confusing and full of twists and turns. That’s why she makes Mr. Poirot conjureup a very good theory that could put most of the people on the train behind bars. He starts hisextensive process by re-interviewing the suspects and guessing their potential role in the DaisyArmstrong case. Once he had found out that, specifically, Princess Dragomiroff lied about whoshe was, he had a pretty good idea that someone else was connected to her and that person wason the very same train. He puts his theory into action and it pays off. “If you confront anyonewho has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is onlynecessary to guess right to produce your effect” (Agatha Christie, 3.5.274). Here Mr. Poirotfound out that Princess Dragomiroff had lied about her identity and if she was involved in theDaisy Armstrong case. From that one interview he goes on to find out that most of thepassengers were involved. “I (Poirot) visualized a self-appointed jury of twelve people whocondemned him to death and were forced by exigencies of the case to be their own