Justice in Three Selected Novels of Agatha Christie

This book explores the theme of justice in three novels of Agatha Christie.The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Murder on the Orient Express and And Then There Were None. The book embraces three chapters. Chapter One is dedicated to the application of justice. Chapter Two is dedicated to justice of the Jury. Chapter Three is dedicated to the administration of justice. In these novels, Christie explores two concepts for justice: legal justice and moral justice.Legal justice is executed by the state, but moral justice is executed by individuals. Christie condemns legal justice as it fails to function properly, whereas she commends moral justice as it make people satisfied, content and relieved.Christie's novels show her a moral justice-minded writer.

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Sherif Hussein Jaber is a lecturer at Northern Borders University. He is an M.A holder. He got it in 2013. He has been teaching English for over quarter a century.He has taught English for all levels in both elementary and secondary schools in Jordan and Saudi Arabia since 1989 . His main interests are Methodology, Translation and Literature.