Comparing And Then There Were None And The Bottomless Grave

While reading gothic literature, there are many horrifying elements that lead to a sense of doom. In the novel, And Then There Were None, and the short story, “The Bottomless Grave,” there is a sense of inhumanity that leads to a sense of doom. . Both stories have inhumane events and the killer in each story manipulates the characters into actually killing the victims. In addition, these pieces of writing have some differences. In And Then There Were None, the killer had a reason for killing all the victims but in “The Bottomless Grave” the killer killed for no reason. While both of these novels have different ways of exploring mass murder and inhumane actions from the murders, they both create a sense of danger. In the novel and the short story, they both contain inhumane events. In the novel, the judge invites ten people, including himself, to a mysterious island and there he then kills all of the guests. This is similar to the short story because in “The Bottomless Grave,” the wife …show more content…
In the short story, the mother persuades the children into helping her kill travelers. The children were easily persuaded because most of the time, when your parents tell you to do something, there is a good reason for the to do it. The children participated in the killings because their mother said to and children are taught to listen to their parents. In the novel, the judge persuades a few of the characters to kill other characters. Vera kills herself at the end of the novel because the killer, the judge, plays tricks with her mind and he finds her weak spots and manipulates her thinking. He also persuades the characters to believe certain people are the killer so the characters don’t think it is him. The judge even fakes his own death so he is eliminated as a suspect. Both the novel and the short story have a killer who manipulates other characters to do what they