“Guilty!” Perhaps the word Justice Wargrave was most famous for saying in Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None were 10 unknowing guests are lured to a remote island by the mysterious U.N.Owen where they are one by one mysteriously killed following exactly to a twisted nursery rhyme causing panic and fear in the guests. The murders are ultimately left unsolved as everyone on the island is dead. With the true culprit left to be found. Justice Lawrence John Wargrave was a man of many traits. He is a retired hanging judge and is seen as a very smart individual. He was regarded as a prominent judge and a wealthy man. “A recently retired judge, Wargrave is intelligent, cold, and commanding.”. Justice Wargrave was also seen as a very calm and collected individual and handled pressure well. He was seemingly a quiet, calm person who didn't have any real bad intentions towards anyone. Judge Wargrave was a nice, calm man who had high regards and respect for most. …show more content…
He sent Edward Seton to his death after trial even though he was innocent. Wargrave was responsible for all of the guests' deaths as he felt as though he should kill them because of their past wrongdoings in their lives, “I have wanted . . . to commit a murder myself. I recognized this as the desire of the artist to express himself! . . . But—incongruous as it may seem to some—I was restrained and hampered by my innate sense of justice. The innocent must not suffer.”. Christie describes Wargrave as "wizened and ugly, with tortoise-like neck,” and “pale shrewd little eyes”; his ugliness makes his appearance more forbidding. Justice Wargrave purposely created fear in the guests by putting them in caution against each other, “From now on, it is our task to suspect each and every one amongst us.”. He was on the path of dying due to his illness, as a result, he wanted to leave an unsolvable mystery after his
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.
In Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None there are at least two of the twenty rules from “Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories” by Van Dine used. These two rules being “The culprit must turn out to be a person who has played a more or less prominent part in the story — that is, a person with whom the reader is familiar and in whom he takes an interest” (Van Dine) and “No willful tricks or deceptions may be placed on the reader other than those played legitimately by the criminal on the detective himself” (Van Dine) In And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie One of the many rules from “Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories” by Van Dine shown is “The culprit must turn out to be a person who has played a more or less prominent part in the story. . .” (Van Dine).
Arthur Dimmesdale was the town minister in The Scarlet Letter, a story of a young woman who committed adultery and faced the consequences, such as wearing a scarlet “A” on her chest. Dimmesdale was a very interesting character because he was very religious but also committed a sin that haunted him everyday. He also happened to be the man who was involved in the young woman’s adultery. He was never convicted, however he still faced the consequences everyday. Dimmesdale was a man of God.
(125). Chillingworth was not always a bad man, as he says. Hester’s scandal and betrayal hurt Chillingworth deeply, to the point where he became evil and sought revenge. Chillingworth was humiliated, and Dimmesdale and Hester were the two people that had made him that way, which is why he sought
Secrets eat away at the soul, wearing it down piece by piece until there is nothing left. This causes guilt to completely cloud a vision of a person making sure the secret is concealed. This leads to the person to become consumed by the secret and can damage a person into becoming ill for keeping confidentiality. The soul suffers from containing the truth becomes ill as well. The soul becomes just as damaged as the person wounded by the truth not being exposed.
The play Twelve Angry Men written by Reginald Rose the jury decides whether or not the boy is guilty of murder in the first degree. Juror Eight votes not guilty because, he needs more evidence. Juror Eight is compassionate, when all the other jurors voted the boy guilty. He tenderhearted proclaims that voting him guilty isn’t easy he implies, “Look this kids been kicked around his all his life.” Juror Eight doesn't want to just send the boy off to prison without further investigation.
Danforth was not doing his job as a responsible judge, looking at evidence as a judge should, and acting with fairness and justice. Because he was not being a pure and just judge he allowed many people to be jailed and hung for no substantial reason. When Hale spoke of judging a man on evidence, Danforth said “I judge nothing… I have seen marvels in this court. I have seen people choked before my eyes by spirits; I have seen them stuck by pins and slashed by daggers I have... not the slightest reason to suspect that the children may be deceiving me” (95).
Wargrave might have killed him first because Anthony is too egotistical for him and would have ruined his whole
He is very prideful and likes to believe he is always fair which is evident when others who try to disprove his judgements are often arrested. Towards the end of the play he begins to realize that he is sending innocent people to their death when he says, “I will not (...) pardon [these when] twelve are already executed [for the same crime].” (129). But by then it was too late, because if he admitted that he made a mistake he would be sacrificing his reputation as a steadfast judge.
Which shows that he isn’t one of the Jurors that likes different ideas that go against his own. Towards the start of the play, he is the main reason almost all the jurors decided to vote ‘guilty’ as he gives convincing points to why he believes that the boy killed his father. After every single vote, one person moves to the ‘not guilty’ side and this annoyed him the most as a few people started questioning
After becoming a judge, his desire to commit a murder begins to grow, “When in due course I came to preside over a court of law, the other secret instinct of mine was encouraged to develop. To see a wretched criminal squirming in the dock, suffering the tortures of the damned, as his doom came slowly and slowly nearer, was to me an exquisite pleasure” (Christie 286). Justice Wargrave extinguished the lives of ten people because he takes pleasure in the deaths of others. He has a very skewed sense of justice. He became a judge in order to murder without consequences.
This also creates suspense in the same way; it gives the reader the knowledge that something is wrong with Wargrave and that he isn’t a normal person with nothing to do with anything. The history of both of these characters make them strange
He displays the tendency of an introverted Pragmatist with the Thinker preferences. Therefore, it takes him very long and requires several opinions laid out by other Jurors to change his mind from ‘guilty’ to ‘not guilty’. At the same time, he was firm and unafraid to stand up for himself once he changed his vote. He is sympathetic towards the boy as he grew up in the slum himself which caused him to disagree with Juror 3 numerous time. Therefore, his own upbringing in the slum makes him more knowledgeable about how the boy could have handled the switchblades and also the traits of living in the slum in
(182). It is obvious that Danforth is serious about the court and his position within it. One could even say he was conceited about it. He brags about the court and himself any chance he gets. When anyone mentions anything other than what he wants to hear, he thinks about his reputation and himself first, not what the truth is.
Through the play, ‘Twelve Angry Men’ established in 1957, the playwright, Reginald Rose signifies the importance of both rational attitude and emotions when making crucial decisions. Gathering on the “hottest day of the year” in a “large, drab, bare” jury room is throbbing for most jurors’ present. They have gathered to reach a ‘fair’ verdict and follow the judge’s instruction to “deliberate honestly and thoughtfully” as prejudice and experiences cloud their judgements. Whilst every juror has a different approach to the case, Rose demonstrates that both emotion and reason are used in the process of decision making. Taking decision without the interference of personal life leads one taking a fair judgement.