Theme Of Guilt In And Then There Were None

Guilt is a frequent emotion that most of society feels. For some, it can make people go crazy and control their emotions. Alternatively, it is the way we act upon our guilt; which displays our true intentions. In the book And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, the author portrays all ten characters going the stages of their guilt. Furthermore in “Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe. In both stories, it shows how their guilty consciences took control over their thoughts and caused them to make inhuman decisions. Both authors use foreshadowing and dialogue to portray how guilt can affect one's conscience. In And Then There Were None, there are many cases where Agatha Christie portrays important and intricate parts of the story that we do not know of yet at the time. She mentions a bible verse that says, “The wicked shall be turned into hell” (Christie 38). It's essentially saying that the people we think are admirable or marvelous are actually not what we interrupt or think; they could be cruel people and things could not be what they …show more content…
It will show just how guilty they are, just by saying the things that they do portrays it all. Their dialogue shows their guilt even in a small sentence like, “She’s not the hysterical type” (Christie 170). It is showing that she's going crazy and most people will go crazy especially when they're guilty. Dialogue is not just what they say, it is also describing things that they do, it's showing that they have so much guilt that they would kill themselves, “she adjusted the noose around her neck” (Christie 245). The guilt took over and they were showing it by what they all said. In the book, it is telling that the guilt was so bad and so powerful that she killed herself. She felt that she had nothing else to do because it would keep happening and that she would go completely and underly mad or