After reviewing the evidence, Mary Debenham, Hector Macqueen, and Colonel Arbuthnot are responsible for the murdering Samuel Edward Ratchett. Mary Debenham, the young English governess, is a prime suspect in the murder due to a substantial amount of suspicious activity. At the start of the novel, while Hercule Poirot was aboard the Taurus Express, he studied Ms. Debenham’s personality in such great detail that after observing her on the Orient Express, he immediately identified various inconsistencies. Ms. Debenham and the Colonel acted differently among one another on the two trains. While on the Taurus Express, Ms. Debenham and the Colonel discussed personal information among each other. “[...] they discovered some mutual friends, which had the immediate effect of making them more friendly and less stiff” (Christie 10). They opened up with one another and were friendly. On the Orient Express, they acted opposite, seeming as if they were never acquainted. “At the next table, a small one, sat Colonel Arbuthnot—alone. [...] They were not sitting together”(Christie 18). Poirot, at first, assumed that the reason that they sat independently of each other was due to Ms. Debenham fearing that her reputation would be tainted, but with further knowledge, it can be inferred that they sat apart to not be assumed together. They would not want to be seen together if they both took part in the murder. Another instance of Ms. Debenham’s suspicious behavior can be displayed during the two train delays. Despite the similar environments, she acted opposite in each situation. On the Taurus Express, during the delay, she acted frantic and anxious, desperately asking when the train would continue. “But we can’t afford delay! This train is due in at 6.55 [...] and catch the Simplon Orient Express on the other side at nine o’clock. If there is an hour or two of delay we shall miss the connection”(Christie 11). Why did Ms. Debenham need to catch that particular train so badly? By the next day, another Orient Express would be there to take her to London. Ms. Debenham would have had to catch that particular train in order to fulfill her plans of killing Ratchett. After Ratchett was murdered, Ms. Debenham was caught in yet another
Explain Mary Warren's predicament. What consequences does she face from Abigail and the other girls, Danforth, and Proctor if she goes against each of
Robertson Davies, author of Fifth Business introduces the readers to two of the main characters of the novel, Dunstable Ramsay and Percy Staunton. These two were friends, but they still had a lot of tension between one another. This caused Dunstable to provoke Percy in the beginning, which causes them to have a snowball fight. As they had this fight someone got hit but it wasn't Dunstable. It was the pregnant, Mrs. Dempster. This one incident is where the chain of guilt begins. Dunstable felt so guilty that the snowball had hit Mrs.Dempster but he felt even more guilty when he heard about her premature birth and infancy of Paul Dempster. After this incident, Dunstable became very responsible towards Mrs. Dempster. He accepts his guilt and tries to resolve it.
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Mrs Hayward is a contradictory character who is established through Stephen’s fragmented memory to be both a character of smiling perfection and a broken woman, sitting in the dust weeping. She is both the embodiment of a perfect British wartime wife and a character of suspicion; a spy, a traitor, the epitome of deceit and the focus of two young boys’ overzealous imagination.
Mary Warren is guilty of causing hysteria in the story by fabricating and planting evidence. An example of Mary being guilty of fabricating and planting evidence is when Proctor questions her about how the poppet got into his house, Mary says “,glancing about the avid faces: Why-I made it in the court-sir and-give it to Goody Proctor.” (Miller 75) This shows that Mary is guilty of fabricating and planting evidence because she’s “glancing” at the “avid faces” before answering Proctor about the poppet with the needle in it. This shows that she knows that she is guilty of this charge. She knew that putting a needle in the poppet means that someone will get and she wanted to give it to Goody Proctor so that she’ll get framed. Another example of
Author also surprises readers, when he introduces conflict between a couple that used to love each other deeply. Diverting the story from love to betrayal, author develops an irony. In the story, reader sees two examples of betrayal. Ms. Maloney, while talking with her tired husband, finds out her husband no longer want to keep their marriage. Without giving any kind of reason, Patrick betrays her wife with a decision of breaking marriage. Mary shocks, when her husband, boldly, says, “ This is going to be bit shock of you”(P. Maloney) Author creates a total opposite picture of Patrick by describing him as a husband who used to give her wife surprises; he is now giving her shock in the middle of her pregnancy. Mary, who was previously shown as “anxiety less”(Dahl), with “a slow smiling air”(Dahl) and “curiously tranquil”(Dahl), had began to get upset and now inculcate her eye with a “bewildered look.” After betrayed by her husband, she, without any argue, she goes to the basement to look for frozen food. She decides to have leg of a lamb as a last dinner with her husband, but she smashes the frozen leg in to Patrick’s head with killing him. Mary betrays her husband by killing him and takes revenge of her betrayal. Later, Author confirms her as a murdered with the statement of “I’ve killed him”(Mary) from her own lips. Dahl, in the story,
This is where the reader knows more then the characters, having seen the murder from Mary’s point of view and now watching the police officers discuss the crime. Also ironic, is that the police officers are doing Mary a huge favour by eating the evidence, making her practically undiscoverable. What is also special about the story, is that in the very beginning, Mary Maloney is described as a weak woman, only devoted to her husband and submissively in love with him. The reader is completely shocked when she murders her husband.
Due to Holmes’ suspicion he and Watson desired to investigate further; they departed to Stoke Moran. They revealed some interesting clues. First of all, the bed was clamped to the floor, there were metallic bars on the windows, along with a forged bell chord attached to a ventilator. Holmes soon found out that the ventilator was connected to Dr. Roylott 's room. This made Sherlock curious, wanting to know more. Helen was a young woman who was frightened of the strong and abusive, Dr. Roylott. She had prearranged to switch places with Sherlock and Watson so they could resolve the case once and for all. She exchanged places after Dr. Roylott was “asleep”. When Sherlock and Holmes arrived to Stoke Moran, they waited and waited. During the middle of the story, both the mood and tone shift. The mood soon became petrified. The tone soon also became something else, challenging. Sherlock Holmes and
While each proses a serve of justice and determination to do the right thing; the men approach the crime scene emotionless, indifferent and determined to go in and get to the bottom of the mystery as quick as possible, and push aside the little details. Little do they know that the things they are putting off could be very essential to their case? For example, in a conversation between the attorney and Mr. Hale who remarks, “..I said to Harry that I didn’t know as what his wife wanted made such a difference to John..” who was interrupted by the attorney in mid conversation and interjects, “Let’s talk about that later, Mr. Hale. I do want to talk about that, but tell now just what happened when you got to the house.” (1127) Meanwhile, while the men are out on their hunt for clues, the women stay in the kitchen to look through Mrs. Wright’s things and discuss a motive for why she killed her husband. Glaspell proposes a plan that by looking deeper into circumstances, you may in turn fully understand its true meaning; leaving no stone left unturned.
Not only do they lie to the other passengers of the train and the reader, but also to the great detective Herlcule Poirot. “Lies- and again lies. It amazes me, the amount of lies we had told to us this morning… There are still more to discover.” (Christie MOE 61). The ego of the passengers and isolation are in sync to the theory as they are all in small space with so much hatred towards the man that it drives them enough to kill him. Being so tight in a small compartment leads them to all kill Ratchtte for what he did to the little girl of Daisy Armstrong together and knew what they were doing. The passengers have it set in their mind that they want to kill him in which they do but never speak a word of it to Poirot. “If ever a man deserves what he got, Ratchett... Is the man... I'm Rejoice I was end. Such a man wasn't fit to live!” (2.13). In closing, both novels show the ego/illness by all the guests on the island and train committing a murder, lie about themselves, and hold inner disires that only the reader learns to find out.
Did you know that prescription drug abuse is one of the leading causes of death in the United States? “According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, two-hundred and ninety people in the United States are killed by prescription drugs every day. (White)” That number is growing every year due to the lack of knowledge of prescription drugs and the potential harm they can cause. Many people are under the misconception that prescription drugs are safe because they are approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and they are prescribed by a doctor. Therefore, the drugs must be safe and could not possibly cause harm or be addicting. However, “the nonmedical use of prescription drugs is the fastest
In the play, Mary Warren was one of the girls that was seen in the woods by Reverend Hale. When they go caught she told him that she was not participating she was just watching. In the book she felt guilt for the poppet, and it causing suspicion on Elizabeth. She was also scared of Abigail, because of the things that she did and she she wanted John Proctor to love her the way she loved him. ( Miller 2)
Mary is very manipulative in that she is able to create the character of the poor, pregnant wife, whose husband has just been murdered. She is able to convince the police to take pity on her, to mix her a drink and then to even eat the evidence, the leg of lamb that she has left in the oven. "Why don’t you eat up that lamb that is in the oven" (Dahl, p. 17). Mary realizes that if the police find the evidence she will go to jail. Her quick thinking and manipulative character results in the police officers eathign the evidence and therefore she cannot be charged of this crime. These actions show the complex character that Mary Maloney truly is.
While the men in the story where playing Sherlock Holmes looking for evidence that Mrs. Wright killed her husband, they missed the bad fruit and the bread left out of the bow, a quilt that was not finished and had a few bad stiches, an unclean table and a birdcage that was empty. They were so determined to find specific clues of the murder, that they missed the clues of the emotional abuse that Mrs. Wright was subjected to from her husband. They were also so busy criticizing everything that Mrs. Wright did or did not do, that they missed everything that was right in front of their eyes. They even slipped with some sexist remarks Mr. Hale says ‘Well, women are used to worrying over trifles’, not realizing that the women were in the room.