And Then There Were None Literary Analysis

Supernatural elements are seen throughout gothic literature and they add multitudes of effects to stories like And Then There Were None and “The Fisherman and his Soul.” In And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie gives us the supernatural feeling throughout the whole book which creates suspicion with each character. No one trusts anyone and each death feels more and more unsolvable and spooks some of them into going insane. In the end Vera Claythorne is driven to hang herself with her own insanity. On the other hand, in Oscar Wilde’s “The Fisherman and his Soul”, Wilde shows us how a fisherman falls in love with a mermaid and will do anything in his power to be with her. Wilde gives us the supernatural feeling when his love fights the evils of his once heartless soul. Even though each story goes down two completely different roads of literature both story shows us how supernatural aspects can bring characters in a story to things they’d never thought they’d ever do. Although Christie shows the supernatural feeling on a remote island off the Devon coast with crazy murders that make no sense, Wilde gives the feelings of the supernatural by the fisherman cutting away his soul and giving it no heart which later he fights away with his love. In And Then There Were None, Christie makes every character be full of suspicion of …show more content…
Every character was very indecisive of who they thought the killer was but they all acted like they knew. The suspense made nobody trustworthy because each character had a pretty valid reason for killing someone. Unlike Christie, Wilde didn’t create as much suspicion so the ending result wasn’t as climatic. There was bits and pieces that added some like when the priest thought it was a mortal sin to rid himself of his soul. When the priest tells him this you can anticipate there to be something bad happen so it adds