Comparing The Social Class In The Novel And Then There Were None By Agatha Christie

In the novel and then there were none by Agatha Christie I don’t think she favors one social class or another. but think that she is trying to tell people that they should try their best at life and what you do as a person can and will come back to haunt you in your future. But at the same time in the book the first character to die is rich and dies a UN harmful death by being poisoned. The lifestyle promoted in this book is the upper-class. Well to start off the author of the book clearly does not favor the middle class because for one Vera Claythorne which whom is middle class dies a very depressing death in which she hangs herself or at least that’s what seemed to be the case. a major reason I think she does care about a social class is
because the serial killer is punishing people on the island for what they have done in the past. Vera claythorne for instance whom was not rich but drowned a boy to try and become rich so the boys cousin she wanted to marry would inherit the money and marry her so she could become wealthy and never have to work again this for one is giving me the idea that the author seems to think that everyone cheats but the ones who do it the most would likely pay for it at the end of their time just as Vera did. But General MacArthur who was lower class had sent his wife lover on an impossible mission during World War 1 in which the general knew he would not return so he also paid for his deed. He died by getting hit in the back of the head with a blunt object waiting for his turn to come. This is why the author gives me the idea she is for the upper-class people. The rich people in the novel like Anthony Marston is poisoned and dies in his sleep somewhat peaceful but not brutal like Vera claythorne because she supposedly hung herself but the judge who is the serial killer killed her and Anthony both. But what I was trying to compare is that Vera was poor and died a horrible death and Anthony who was rich died off peacefully. This is also what makes you think in the book all the middle class people did something somewhat similar to what the rich and poor had done but in the end the people who get the worst hand out of the deal are all poor and even though they may have succeeded but in the end all of them pay for what they have done but others paid more of a price by dying a more violent way/ I think she wanted the rich to die off in peace and not see their death coming because they are the ones I think who never gave much thought on what they had done to get there. I think that the author really truly does not care about what social class you are in but the deeds you have done in your past although she may have been more lenient with the deaths of the rich rather than the poor but in the end all of them ended up dying for some deep dark secret they had kept for a long period of time. The author also makes you wonder why she let the middle and poor classes experience more pain when they were the ones who really thought and had a conscious for what they had done because it was already eating them alive but I think they are the ones that gained most form the experience because no longer do they have to suffer and keep wondering when it is time for karma to strike them so to me I think it doesn’t matter to her about any ones social class but depends on how that person lived there life and what they did to deserve to be in that position.