Independent Study Project
And Then There Were None
August.5.2016
By
Zoha Zahoor
The topic that I will be exploring for this ISP is how the burden of guilt torments a human. In this novel, almost every character is guilt ridden and this leads to the inevitable death of the characters. Each character has committed a crime for which they have not been punished and therefore, they all carry the guilt of their crime. Agatha Christie focuses on the concept that the inner guilt felt by a person is worse than any punishment the law could have given. I have chosen to explore this topic because I believe that the characters inner-guilt was already a huge punishment for them and therefore they did not deserve what happened to