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Analysis Of Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None

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In Agatha Christie’s novel And Then There Were None, she incorporates sinning and the effects of it. This gramophone plays a list of accusations of each of the houseguests on Indian Island, all of which Christie proves true at the end of the story. Also, a reader knows each guest is eventually murdered. Christie justifies in the epilogue that the guests perished due to their committed crimes; because Wargrave feels the need to kill someone though works as a judge, he discusses his reasoning in choosing crime-committers as targets. He states “... with this went a contradictory trait―a strong sense of justice. It is abhorrent to me that an innocent person or creature should suffer or die… I have always felt strongly that right should prevail”

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