Agatha Christie

In gothic literature, some things really are too good to be true. In Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None and Nathaniel Hawthorne´s ¨A Select Party,¨ the characters quickly realize that a seemingly perfect offer can have horrid consequences--for most, death. In both stories, the characters embark on an adventure to an unfamiliar place that sounds like it could be very beneficial. In Christie's story the guests travel to a secluded house that claims to hold their salvation. Conversely, in…

There Were None is a murder mystery about ten people who are invited to an island by a mysterious host and one by one they are killed off. The good guy act from Dr. Armstrong leads to his character seeming incredibly suspicious. In the novel by Agatha Christie, Justice Wargrave is seen as the murderer for many. However, through investigating motive and opportunity, Dr. Armstrong can be proven guilty of murdering seven out of the nine other people who went to Soldier Island. Dr. Armstrong’s…

Nothing is ever what it seems in Agatha Christie’s novel, because the limitations between reality and fiction or rather truth and deceit are blurring and real. The acclaimed novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd integrates the subtle techniques of hiding the meaning of the truth by the narrator by means of which when a special narrator-reader connection is created, trust is assumed from the narrator by the reader by means that the narrator would not deceive the reader. This coalition has the reader…

I have read the murder mystery novel And Then There Were None, that is written by English writer Agatha Christie, publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, year of the first publication: 1939 (as Ten Little Niggers), number of pages: 252. This novel is known as her masterpiece and said to be the most difficult and popular of her books. In this excellent book by narrative techniques she describes the Soldier Island’s landscape, the weather that sometimes seems gloomy and threatening, each of the…

Both And Then There Were None , by Agatha Christie ,and “The Gold Bug,” by Edgar Allen Poe, feature plots based on mysteries as well as a gothic element. This Gothic writing style can be used to scare an audience, making for a very intriguing story. “The Gold Bug” differs from And Then There Were None in some aspects, including the lack of death in the short story. Although the stories were written by different authors , and at different times, they both feature gothic settings along with…

The Orient express by Agatha Christie is the best selling novel in the 1930’s . One of the series and adventures for Hercule Poirot the best detective, faced his hardest case yet. The story is about the great detective Hercule Poirot trying to solve the case on who killed the wanted criminal Rachette , this novel is taken place in the 1930’s in a snow storm which later on gets the train stuck . Later on as Hercule is trying to figure out who has murder the man he finds out something more deeper…

This essay will be comparing and contrasting And Then There Were None and “The Lady’s Maid’s Bell” and how they are both classified in the Gothic Literature. In And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie casts ten characters out on an island called Soldier Island in which she puts suspicion on all of her characters and making them all possible killers. One by one all the characters start dying. In contrast, in Edith Wharton’s “The Lady’s Maid’s Bell” (1903) a maid who has recently gotten over…

titled "The Enduring Appeal of Agatha Christie" is quite well done in two aspects; it follows the essay structure to the dot, and it does not stray from the topic. That said, this essay is lacking in many ways. The introduction is done well following the "general to thesis" format, however, though the essay is about Agatha Christie being the best female mystery writer, it makes no mention of any other female mystery writers except Christie. Without any competition, Christie wins the "Best…

mystery by Agatha Christie, who has many great mysteries to her name. It is a book in which the plot literally thickens every page, where the opinions of the characters change with every new event, and the end makes one's jaw drop as he realizes how the murderer pulled off such heinous crimes. The way the book is formulated, with short sections in each chapter, allows for the tension to develop in a fluid, but creepy fashion. It is worth it to read the book just to see how great Christie…

appear, a recording tells accusations on each of the ten guests. One by one each guest is murdered. How their murder was executed was based upon a nursery rhyme called “Ten Little Indians”. The thrilling novel And Then There Were None, written by Agatha Christie, was one to keep readers up all night who were unwilling to put the book down. The mystery elements that consisted in this book were: distractions and clues, plot, setting, and characterization. The main conflict is people versus…