Analysis of a Major Work

And Then There Were None is demonstrating the ultimate justice. Wargrave kills everyone on Indian Island because he did what the legal system could not do. Everyone got away with some type of crime even if they were accidents. Wargrave believes that these people deserve a consequence rather than walking away because the crime was an accident. He found the crimes from being a judge, and he took the matters into his own hands. Wargrave murders multiple people and takes some pleasure from what he has accomplished. He punishes himself for his own crime by hanging himself even though he would have died due to sickness anyway, so he never entirely suffers the consequences of his actions. The characters were carefully chosen and killed in a particular order based on their personality. When there were only two people left alive, Lombard and Claythorne, Claythorne automatically killed Lombard assuming that there was no possiblity that it could be someone else. Wargrave knew that she would do that, and he knew that she would fulfill the last line of the poem by hanging herself. Everything went as he planned. Christie was very clever in creating her characters for this novel. She included the murderer in the legal system to a former soldier to a governess. They all had one thing in common: they each held with them a deep dark secret and they all had a lot of guilt on their conscience. In the very end, guilt is the cause of the last person's death.

Works Cited

And Then There Were None. Sparknotes, 2010. Web. 5 May 2010. .

Christie's Major Works

Agatha Christie’s characters are usually “well-to-do-people”. Often the comfortable lifestyles of her characters are faced with financial problems, a possible cause for the murder. The character that appears innocent and least likely to commit murder is frequently the murderer in her novels. Society is not blamed for the crimes committed within the books.
Hercule Poirot is one of Christie’s most famous detectives. He is the base of many of her novels. He loves the luxurious life and is a very routine type of individual. He has a very big ego and believes that everyone knows his name. He is known to be impatient, opinionated, and very direct towards others. When Poirot solves his crimes, he likes to sit back quietly and think, but he is not afraid to snoop around into other people’s business.
Jane Marple is another one of Christie’s detectives. She uses people that she knows from a village to network her way into figuring out who the murderer is. She is of older age and the methods she uses only work for a woman like her. She draws parallels of village and city life. If Christie created Marple younger than she probably would not have been able to solve the crimes that she did.
Hercule and Marple’s character is the base of Christie’s novel. Most of Christie’s major works include one of these two characters. The plot is created around them. The crimes they solve are built so that they can solve them. The type of individuals and crime solvers they are is the base of every novel that they are in.

Works Cited
Agatha Christie. 2010. Web. 1 May 2010. .
Hercule Poirot Central. Ed. J.D. Hobbs. 2000. Web. 1 May 2010. .