Michael Shannon
Mrs. Siebert
English 9
24 January 20223
The Wrong Acts of Justice Do people deserve justice for murdering someone no matter how it is served? In the book, And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, justice is given to murderers but not in the way that it should be done. These murderers are killed for the act that they have done. They are not killed by any sort of law. They are each murdered one by one. Justice Wargrave feels the need to serve justice to these people on the island, yet what he does is completely wrong.
Each character feels differently about their committed act of murder. Some feel lots of remorse, some feel little, and some feel none. The killer, Justice Wargrave takes note of these feelings of guilt
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He had a way of justice he wanted for her, but not from murder. The more murders Wargrave committed on the island, the closer it drove Vera to insanity. These events were a part of Wargrave's plan all along. He wanted to bring the most guilty, Vera, to commit suicide. He knows it's working by how she is acting. For example, some of the things that upset her were the record players telling everyone that she was murdered, her seeing all this murder happen around her, she notices the figurines on the table begin to move, something even happened to her in her room that causes her to scream and pass out. This was all a part of Wargrave’s plan and it was working perfectly. He was giving her what she deserved by making her go insane. He was serving the justice he felt needed to be given. All he wanted out of this was justice. Wargrave feels that justice is very important and needs to be served properly. He knows that “It is abhorrent to me that an innocent person or creature should suffer or die by any act of mine. I have always felt strongly that right should prevail” (286). No one should be killed for something they didn't do, but people who did something wrong de deserve justice. This is what Wargrave is doing. This was the final step of his plan. When there are only two other people and him left on the island, he does not have to commit any more murder, for the characters do it for him. They turn on one another. Vera Clayhtorne
He moves in with Dimmesdale, and claims he will care for him, but the public cannot see that his intention is to torture Dimmesdale. Hawthorne explains, “The intellect of Roger Chillingworth had now a sufficiently plain path before it. It was not, indeed, precisely that which he had laid out for himself to tread. Calm, gentle, passionless, as he appeared, there was yet, we fear, a quiet depth of malice, hitherto latent, but active now, in this unfortunate old man, which led him to imagine a more intimate revenge than any mortal had ever wreaked upon an enemy” (126). He deliberately chooses to drive Chillingworth into insanity.
Basically, Chillingworth wants to keep Dimmesdale from confessing of Chillingworth’s pleasure. Through his interactions with Dimmesdale, Chillingworth shows the vengeful aspect of his
And ultimately he kills to be free. He kills then he runs and meets up with other people and starts a new life. But there are more smaller details that have different meanings. Let me ask you some questions, are
Justice Wargrave represents the theme of Justice, as he carefully decides on punishment and orders each of the characters to die. The two characters whose death was deliberate and given careful consideration were Vera Claythorn and Phillip Lombard. In the novel, “And then there were none.” Agatha Christie uses the literary technique of flashbacks and symbolism to demonstrate the theme of Justice.
He wanted to set it all up with the job and the whiskey because at the second fight, he didn’t look beaten. “But the thing was, that he didn’t look beaten even then, not the way a man who has given up looks beaten” (242). This clearly shows that Slade’s death was an act of revenge because after the second fight, he didn’t look beaten and then a few days later he offered him whiskey if he’d do this job. It wouldn’t be justice because justice is usually fair with it and
Justice was NOT served on Soldier Island In the murder mystery, And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie justice was not served. One reason for this is; Their crimes did not match their punishments, other factors contributed to these people's deaths. And now who is going to right Wargraves wrong.
Though, emotionally, he is just as bad as the other islanders, if not worse, he takes it upon himself to act like he is above them and can decide the outcome of their fate. His actions are driven by a twisted sense of justice and revenge, making him no better than the murderers he seeks to punish. After Mrs.rodgers death Wargrave declares to Brent “My dear lady, in my experience of ill-doing, Providence leaves the work of conviction and chastisement to us mortals—and the process is often fraught with difficulties. There are no shortcuts.” After Rodgers death Wargrave feels the need to proclaim to the islanders that some type of divine spirit has taken her life in order to repay for her sin.
Justice was NOT served on Soldier Island “Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are” - Benjamin Franklin In the murder mystery novel, And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie justice was not served. A few reasons for this is; Their crimes did not match their punishments, and other factors contributed to these people's deaths. Also now who is going to right Wargraves wrongs.
Each character shares a commonality of being killed due to the ruthless cycle of gun violence. Every character plays a role in swaying Will’s decision of revenge. Certain characters had
The demonstration of the narrator's imagination unconsciously leads his own thoughts to grow into a chaotic mess that ultimately ends in a death. By murdering, it’s his own way of finding peace. He is portrayed as being a sadist, sick man with an unnatural obsession for
I believe that because she understands the love he has for her, she knows that he “wouldn’t hurt her” (173). She has to kill him so that he does not bear the burden and grief of killing her lover because the thought of him feeling regretful of killing her pains her heart. We know that he wants to make
In the novel And Then There Were None, there are multiple themes. Justice being one of many, showing that there are many flaws in its system. What I mean by this is that the main characters of And Then There Were None got little to no punishment for their crimes. Some even got rewarded.
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.
However, his wife stops him from doing so, which angers the narrator even more. Because of this, he decides to murder her. The narrator feels no remorse for this or any other of his unspeakable acts, which adds to the reader's perception of him as
Towards the end of the book, a quote shows that the man who actually kills the people on the island is choosing to kill them to serve justice whether they are