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Did Justice Wargrave Act Justly?

  • Date Submitted: 06/08/2010 06:19 PM
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In the novel, And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, Justice Wargrave behaves unjustly when he takes the life of ten people. He believes that he is creating justice, when in fact, he ignores the honourable principles he swore to uphold.
Justice Wargrave, a character created by Agatha Christie, acts unrighteously when he gives himself the power to decide the fate of the people on the island. To begin, he traps his victims and decides to punish them in the cruelest way possible for their alleged murders. He believes that in killing those people, he can re-enforce the justice from which these people have escaped. Some of his victims feel remorse for what they did, and attempt to start a new life. However, Wargrave is convinced that they deserve to die. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and a murder for a murder is what he has attempted to achieve. Fundamentally, his profession requires him to uphold the law. However, he illegally punishes those people despite the fact that they were acquitted by the jury of their peers. Wargrave ends the lives of nine others in his effort to create his foggy ideal of justice. As Justice Wargrave has stated, he commits the perfect crime. In his note explaining his carefully thought out murders, Wargrave acknowledges, “I have a definite sadistic delight in seeing or causing death.” He finds pleasure in seeing others perish regardless of their innocence. Before killing his victims one by one, Wargrave pitilessly toys with their conscience and emotions. He shows no sympathy, but instead, he feels proud, as if he has created a masterpiece of murder. Although he attempts to create fairness, he behaves immorally when he plays the role of God, and decides the fate of those people.
To conclude, although Justice Wargrave is a judge, he acts most dishonorably. His illusion of justice is merciless and inequitable. No human has the right to take another human being’s life, no matter how righteous he believes the cause is.

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