Agatha Christie

Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born on September 15, 1890 in Torquay, England to Frederick Alvah Miller and Clarissa Margaret Boehmer Miller. Agatha was also known as Agatha Mary Clarissa Mallowan. Where Agatha grew up influenced her and had a huge impact on her life (Breznau). She spent most of her time alone, while she was alone she loved to invent characters and adventure for them. Agatha was educated at home by her parents and her nurse. She taught herself to read during the age five; after…

Chapter-1 Introduction Agatha Christie is reputably known throughout the world as the ‘Queen of Crime’. The Guinness Book of Records cites her as the second best-selling author of all time after William Shakespeare. She also has the honour of being the most widely translated author of all time after William Shakespeare. In 1952, her play The Mousetrap was debuted at the ambassador’s Theatre in London, and has been performed without a break ever since. The Mousetrap was initially performed…

Agatha Christie, the brilliant author of some of the most well known murderous mystery stories, uses the theme of what goes around comes back around to write the novel And Then There Were None. Her use of conflict and style helps bring this theme to life. Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller, born on September 15th, 1890 in England, was the youngest of 3 children. Her mother educated her from home and was the one who encouraged her to write. In her early years Miller enjoyed playing in her own personal…

Agatha Christie’s masterpiece, And Then There Were None has grown to be a Thriller. The book was published in 1939 and nearly every language has translated it. 25 movies, Television shows, and video games have been based upon it. It is often written in parodies because of its mysterious locked-door mystery. Agatha Christie who wrote the novel And There Were None set the theme of a powerful journey leading the main characters in a decision of survival and fate.The first And then There Were None…

Then There Were None by Agatha Christie the ten main characters in the story are constantly having this feeling of immense uncertainty. They feel this way because they are slowly dying without even knowing how or why the others were killed. The story begins with all ten people being invited by an anonymous person and are murdered one by one. This results in the victims racing to solve the crime before they are killed. Throughout the novel And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie uses imagery,…

and her family if she doesn’t do what she’s told. When Connie doesn’t do what she’s told, however, Arnold threatens to kill her family and kidnap Connie. For example, the theme of a worst nightmare coming true is seen throughout many stories, like Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None. Just as “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” leads to a sense of suspense, so does And Then There Were None. In both stories, they both leave you with what happened, and you don’t find out until the…

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…

Many elements of gothic literature can be seen in both Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None and “The Mortals in the House” by Charles Dickens. In And Then There Were None, author Agatha Christie shows how the repeated deaths on the remote eventually become something the characters can anticipate. Similarly, Dickens depicts a tale where the haunting within the weathered house is so common it becomes normal to the guests. However, in Christie’s novel the consistent murder drives the…

When you read gothic literature, there is often similar traits located in the novel or story, that make it easy to compare the works. In the novel And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, eight guests set off to a mysterious island in search of the unknown person that invited them there. Everyone on the island eventually dies a mysterious death caused by a murderer who felt that he needed to take things into his own hands. However, in the short story “The Gray Wolf’s Haint” by Charles W.…

The film version of Ten Little Niggers (1945, US title: And Then There Were None) by the French director René Clair, starring Walter Huston and Barry Fitzgerald, is one of the most faithful Christie adaptations. In addition to these mysteries, Christie wrote her autobiography (1977), and several plays, including THE MOUSETRAP, which run more than 30 years continuously in London, and had 8 862 performances at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. The play was based on the short story 'Three Blind…