Vera is also ruthless, as is shown by her ability to shoot Philip Lombard and then feel happy about her actions. What she has not counted on is her boyfriend’s reaction to the child’s death, which is he left her and will not communicate with her. Since the boy is now dead, Vera’s boyfriend will now inherit the money. The boy was her boyfriend’s nephew and as he was Vera’s boyfriend’s brother’s child, then he would inherit the money. He stood in the way of her and her boyfriend marrying, because the boy would inherit the money she feels her boyfriend is entitled to. She is still trying to come to terms with the consequences of her actions, which causes the death of young boy. She looks forward to the change of pace after spending the year as a games mistress at a school. He fears if the truth comes out about the operation, then he will lose his license to practice medicine. He feels true remorse and shame for the death of the woman, he is also fearful he will be found out. Armstrong is a man who actually wanted to make his life meaningful, by helping others. Rogers died after he gave her a sedative and he alone found General Macarthur dead.ĭr. Armstrong is, before this, thought to be the murderer, because Mrs. As a thank you for his help, Justice Wargrave repaid him by throwing him into the sea and allowing him to drown. Instead, he became an unknowing accomplice to Justice Wargrave by helping Wargrave fake his death. He has since become a successful physician and thought coming to the island would be a nice break from his hectic practice. The woman did not survive the operation, which causes the doctor to look at how he is living his life and make changes in his behavior. He, a few years previously, operated on a woman while he was drunk. He does not suspect the true reason for his invitation to the island. Armstrong is invited to the island to look after the health of Mrs. He misleads the police by making his own suicide look like it follows the same pattern as the murders of the others on the island.ĭr. He is also a good actor, because he fools the others on the island into believing he is dead. He enjoys seeing how much anxiety he can inflict upon those he judges guilty of murder. Justice Wargrave is a man who is conflicted by his thrill of the kill and his need for justice. He at first wants no credit for his acts, but after he is done he feels the need to show the world just how smart he is and so he leaves his written confession in a bottle, which he throws out to sea. He then formulates his plan to bring them to an island and kill them, in accordance with the lines of a nursery rhyme. This begins Justice Wargraves quest to find ten people who have legally gotten away with murder. He, one day, talks to a doctor who wonders how many people have legally gotten away with murder. He decides one person is not enough, he wants to go about it in a grand scale and this is how he decides to kill ten people. Until now, the only deaths he actually had a physical involvement with involved animals and insects, but now, after finding out his life is about to end due to illness, he wants to murder someone. To solve this unique problem he becomes a judge, in this way he can dispense justice while at the same time legally killing, by sending murderers to their deaths. This satisfies his desires until he retires from the bench, then he finds he has an unrelenting desire to commit murder himself. Justice Wargrave has a problem, it seems he enjoys killing, but he also has a strong sense of justice.
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