She is stable and upbeat on the outside, but almost at her breaking point within.

Rather than playing her as an overly naive girl bound to wind up dead before the third chapter, she is played as an emotionally warped young woman, wise beyond her years, who only murdered in the first place for love. Vera’s social nature made those around her trust and confide in her. However, in And Then There Were None this particular trait was portrayed as a strength. This may be viewed as a weakness in a life or death situation, as being too open may lead to your information being spread, making your murder easier. Vera Claythorne, the last surviving person excluding Justice Wargrave, represents humanity’s built-in need for communication and connection. I believe that because of her actions and words in the novel up until her death, Emily Brent represents humanity’s self-righteousness and tendency to justify their wrongdoings under the shield of religion. ” Her puritan views further fed into her feelings of superiority over the other characters because she used them to detach herself from her negative feelings over anything she may have done wrong. This led to her commonly used justification when asked about the incident, “I have nothing with which to reproach myself. She was religiously devout and believed that because taking your own life was wrong in the eyes of God, she had nothing to feel guilty for. Unlike most of the characters left alive at that point, she harbored no remorse for her crime. Her reason was causing the suicide of a young girl under her care. Emily Brent was the fifth person to be murdered, drugged with chloral and given a lethal injection of cyanide. Armstrong – each prominent characters in the storyline – in turn represent humanity’s self-righteousness, inherent need of connection, and blind trust in its leaders. In Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None Emily Brent, Vera Claythorne, and Dr. Each of the characters and their corresponding actions shine light on the human condition and the strengths and weaknesses it possesses. However, back in 1939 Agatha Christie wrote a novel with such a captivating story and complex characters, the now washed out label “Murder Mystery” hardly does the book justice. The murder mystery of the century! Unfortunately the term, perhaps the genre itself has become so grossly overused, it has lost its meaning to the general public.

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