How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
“Unfortunately it’s taken her this way. Religious mania—thinks she’s God’s instrument, something of that kind! She sits in her room, you know, reading her Bible.” (11.97)
Like Miley Cyrus, Justice Wargrave and Miss Brent believe that they can do just about anything and be morally justified. Pro tip: these people are very, very dangerous—and often very, very successful.
Quote #5
And by now the thoughts that ran through their brains were abnormal, feverish, diseased… (13.21)
Abnormal, feverish, and diseased—just like the thoughts of someone evil, or perhaps just extremely disturbed. This actually raises an important point: is And Then There Were None a study of evil, or a psychological study of sociopathy? (Fun fact: the 1930s were a heyday of Freudian psychoanalysis, which was super into exploring and understanding abnormal psychology.)
Quote #6
She didn’t like the hook on the ceiling. It drew your eyes, fascinated you… a big black hook… (14.91)
Um, yeah. We’d be requesting a room change pretty quickly if we got put in the room with the big black hook fastened to the ceiling. Here, Wargrave is trying to torment Vera by convincing her that she’s evil—evil enough to hang herself from this very hook.