Ever since Judge Lawrence Wargrave was a child he had a thing for seeing and causing death. He had a tormented mind. He himself could not kill the innocent for that was his tragic flaw. So he found a loophole and wanted to kill the guilty, but were the people on the island were really guild of the same crime. If they were wouldn't they have been in jail or giving the death penalty. That is not at all the way Wargrave saw it he had seen people get away with murder and they deserved to die, but he was wrong. He made a …show more content…
plan to invite ten people on Soldier Island each person guilty of the same crime for him to get the thrill of killing them off one by one. Going by the theme of a childhood nursery rhyme. He had wanted it to be a mystery who was the murder and why was it happening.He tells the people with confidence knowing exactly what he plans to do “ The killer is not out there. The killer is in here. It is one of us.”. Leaving mystery in the room to whom the killer may be and why he or she is doing it.
Wargrave decided to fake his own death having the feeling that people were catching on to him being the murder.
He had convinced Dr. Armstong into helping him fake his death after he had gotten away with everyone being murdered he found it was to obvious that he was the only one alive. He had wrote a confession letter as of to why he had done what he did.Knowing he was wrong to some people but right in his eyes. In his letter he confessed saying “I have wanted . . . to commit a murder myself. I recognized this as the desire of the artist to express himself! . . . But—incongruous as it may seem to some—I was restrained and hampered by my innate sense of justice. The innocent must not suffer.”. He had finally gotten what he had wanted in life and pretty much did get away with murder. Paying the price of taking a life come with losing your own. Once the police came and saw what Wargrave did the were surprised and shocked that someone with such power could lose sight of what is the right thing to do. Guilty of nine individual murders and a suicide of himself he was better off dead than
alive.
He was in the wrong from the start he should of been helped as a child is he was having those kind of thoughts of murder. Killing people is never the right thing to do even if those people were guilty of the same crime. They should be punished but not by death. The death penalty would be an excuse for them to get off easy. They may be dead but they are not suffering. Judge Lawrence Wargrave is guilty of murder and was in the wrong for the crimes he did.