![]() ![]() In this quote, it becomes clear that Blore will certainly be one of the murdered. The reader understands in the first chapter that each character introduced will be, in some way, involved in a murder. Though Justice Wargrave ends up killing all ten people on the island (if you include himself), he feels no remorse-making him the real psychopath. The quote exemplifies Christie’s use of foreshadowing to increase the suspense of the novel. Her death is the only one that doesn’t count as murder. Vera Claythorne commits suicide out of guilt, not because someone is forcing her to. Why does Vera kill herself at the end of the novel?.Does Justice Wargrave feel guilty about “sentencing” all the characters on Soldier Island to their deaths?.Lombard agrees that Vera couldn't have committed the murder because she is such a levelheaded, sane girl. Vera asks Lombard who he thinks the murder is and he comments that she must be excluding the two of them. Why didn’t Vera tell anyone about what she did if she felt so guilty about it the whole time? Vera asks Lombard to wake her up so she can realize that this is all a bad dream, but Lombard tells her that won't happen.What is the difference between the characters who feel guilty, like Vera and General Macarthur, and those who don’t, like Emily Brent and Philip Lombard?.The thing is, spending your life wracked by guilt may be uncomfortable, but-according to arbiter of morality Justice Wargrave-it’s a whole lot better than being self-righteous and self-satisfied like one Miss Emily Brent. ![]() You know that funny feeling in the bottom of your stomach when you’ve done something wrong, like plagiarized an essay or spent all afternoon playing Flappy Bird instead of studying for Chemistry? A whole lot of the characters in And Then There Were None suffer from a chronic version of this ailment. ![]()
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