An Analysis Of Agatha Christie

An Analysis Of Agatha ChristieBritishs literature is whiz of the biggest treasures of literary, poetry, play t eyelid famous around the realism. The place that all in all the name like William Shakespe ar, William G h whizst-to-goding , and Philip Larkin come from. Love story, romantic story, fantasy and fairytales are some topics that umpteen an a nonher(prenominal)(prenominal) reference/ put outr want to write some, usually based on their personal life. Therefore, when quite a little talk about literature, its s money box a small amount of people interested in riddle and murder stories and one of the reason is because brain-teaser and crime stories as we know them today did not emerge until the mid-nineteenth century when Edgar Allan Poe introduced mystery manufacturings first lyingal spy, Auguste C. Dupin, in his 1841 story, The scores in the Rue Morgue. The acknowledged father of the mystery story, Poe continued Dupins exploits in leg nullifys such as The whodu nit of Marie Roget (1842) and The Purloined Letter (1845). (Mystery Time Line Group). Even though appeared really late in literatures history but it coming popular quickly. And many authors became famous by written material this sheath of stories like Edgar Allan Poe, Dorothy L. Sayers, and according to hype, a woman spent her entire life writing about mystery and murder Stories Agatha Christie.It truly began in 1841 when Edgar Allan Poe introduced Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin in the short story The Murders in the Rue Morgue. Two women were savagely murdered in a baffling an grotesque manner, the police appear baffled, Dupin leads his confess investigation and succeeds were constant authorities shit failed, so getting in stone the basic of countless detective similealisation novels to come (R.D Collin).After that, many other stories, novels appeared as mystery fiction and became very famous. According to Mystery Time Line Group, Dickens Charles became popular by Bleak House ( 1853). The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870), a fecund writer, Collins wrote The Woman in White (1860). The Moonstone(1868),and a brilliant Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who we know as Sherlock Holmes. some people wonder that why crime fiction became popular so quickly. Most writer novel usually write their story, they based on real story and it difference from all other course of study of writing, it include many difference small stories in one big story in holy order to find the final answer. While reading, reader feels like they are the main character and wants to find the fuddle as soon as possible, its mysterious mixing with reality because it based on things that surround us.By the 1920s British mysteries had become extremely popular, particularly the cozy, a style of mystery usually featuring a small village setting, a hero with faintly aristocratic family attributeions, a plethora of red herrings and a tendency to commit homicide with sterling silver letter openers and poisons im ported from Paraguay.(Murder Ink)From a regular novel of decision puzzle, it spread out in to other category, involved much violation and sex one of them are I, The Jury which became one of the best selling mystery declares back in those days, sold over 6 one million million copied and virtually of them are mal reader. Heavy gut and bloody mystery are interested many people too parallel with cope mystery. It became more and more successful and that why mystery fiction became so famous in a short period of them. Not stopping there, crime fiction step in television and theater. TV has provided mystery lovers with a seemingly endless stream of bleached characters over the socio-economic classs and into the present. Characters such as Perry Mason and Simon Templar (The Saint) were extremely popular during the early years of TV, followed more recently by the likes of Lieutenant Columbo (Columbo), Jim Rockford (The Rockford Files), and Jessica Fletcher (Murder, She Wrote), among ma ny others. (Mystery Time Line Group). Consequently, mystery keeping it own position of strength and dot not losing any sign of abating. Many new novels had published and it not only convinces British but fan all over the world. And speaking of famous, Christie Agatha is woman that famous by her writing and nonpareil skill.Agatha Christie, full name was Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller. According to Janet Morgan, Agatha came from a middle class family in Torquay. In April 1878, Frederick Miller married to Clara Miller, they had three beautiful young lady together,into this well equipped house hold, Agatha was natural on September 15, 1890, she was much-loved after through her mother was thirty-six and her father was forty-four and there was a gap of eleven years between Agatha and Madge and ten years between Agatha and Madge( Morgan, 8)which mean Agatha had two sometime(a) sister and she was the youngest of all. By Morgan, we know that Agatha was educated when she was young and only educated at home (19). Agatha be that she really intelligent, interesting in defy, good at cooking and singer and in her early life, Agatha ideate of becoming nurture, Agatha verbalize, during her school day that she wanted to be a nurse but Mr. Miller had other ideas. She would deadly have loved her daughter become a concert pianist or a professional singer, perhaps in grand opera.(Hack 24). When Agatha was young, she wrote short stories and composed a collection of poems which were later publishes by Geoffrey Bles in 1925 and songed The Road of Dream (Robyns 27). Conform to Richard Hack Agatha worked at a hospital as a nurse in the First valet War. This is the point when Agatha came up with an idea to write crime fiction novel patch nursing for her patients. August 1914 she met an an aviator name Archibald Christie, its happen to be her future husband, impress everyone when they got married in a Christmas Eve 1914 in a local church without any preparing , Agatha call up the memory, wrote no bride could have taken less trouble about her appearance. No white dress, no veil, not even a smart frock. I was an ordinary coat and skirt with a small empurple velvet hat.(Hack 59). A baby girl was born in August 5, 1919 is a result of this married, Agatha gave ingest to a baby girl in her own bed room and name it Rosalind (69). According to Richard hack, Archibald Christie only came home to see the baby and Agatha for a couple hours a day and left after that. Agatha matte up depressed and sad when her body changed after pregnant and the loneliness while Mr. Miller usually by from home, feel at the sad corner in her house, Agatha unconquerable to continue her novel that she started when she was a nurse in World War 1 (70). The book names The mysterious Affair at Styles, it was a bid success, and The New York Times was really impressed with this book The only fault this story has is that it is close to too ingenious, they wroteThough this may be the fir st published book of throw away Agatha Christie, she betrays the cunning of an old hand You must wait for the end-but-one chapter in the book for the last link in the chain of take the stand that enabled Mr. Poirot to unravel the whole complicated p take and lay the guilt where it really belonged. And you may safely run a wager with yourself that until you have heard M. Poirots final word on the mysterious affair at Styles you will be kept guessing at its solution and will close to certainly never lay down this most entertaining book. (New York Times) Agatha keeping up with her writing career and thinking that this is what she love to do, she published The Secret Adversary which appeared in 1922, Murder on the link(1923) the man in the brown tally ( 1924) (Robyns 48). Richard hack informed that Archie asked for a divorce in late 1926, he claims that he was falling in love with another woman and asking Agatha for a quit. Disappointing and painfully, while she still in a pain of the lost of her mother not too long ago (95). In December 1926, Agatha disappeared, the Monday morning time paper wrote an article for Agathas manhunt droping from home, the Styles, sunning dale, Berkshire, Mrs. Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, age 35 height 5 feet 7inches hair, red, hinged part greyness complexion, fair, built slight, dressed in grey stockinet skirt, green, jumper, grey and dark cardigan and small velour hat wearing a platinum ring with on pearl no wedding ring blue handbag with purse containing perhaps L5 or L 10. Left home by car at 945 P.M. Friday leaving note saying that she was going for a drive ( Robyns 66) Fifteen gibibyte fans join police from four counties looking for Agatha ( Robyns 67), she appeared three week later in Swan hydropathic Hotel in Harrogate, she claimed that she has loss her memories and do not remember anything happen before. According to Gwen, the doctor had diagnosed her as low from amnesia, typical case of mental reprisal, a perso n got hurt from someone or some sham event that affected them. In this case, it might be the depressing of losing her mother and the betrayed of her husband that make Agatha decided to disappear for a short period of time. Its difficult for Agatha Christy to recovery after all things happen so she decided to take a long holiday and choose the West Indies( Robyns 91) to distress and find a new source of inspiration for her next book. On this trip, she met Max Mallowan, an archaeologist, who Agatha spent the rest 45 year of her life with.On September 11, 1930, Mrs. Agatha Christie and Professor Max Mallowan were married quietly in Edinburgh to avoid the fighter that it would have caused in London press. The ceremony took place at St. Cuthberts church in the district of St. Giles with her daughter and two secretaries, Charlotte and Mary Fisher, as witness. ( Robyns 94).After married Agatha Christie returned to write book and success after success. Agatha got ideas from things she s ee and turned to novels, masterpieces. Christie wrote the first novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles , got an idea when she was a nurse in a hospital in World War I, and the plot of the story was base on World War I. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was finish during the death of her mother and a divorce with her ex husband. She translate her regret in to the story and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd became one of the most selling book in Agatha Christie career, it place Agatha Christie at the top of her profession the un disputed Queen of crime(Robyns 53). Agatha love it and know this is what she love and something that she will keep doing till the rest of her life.12 January 1976 In St. MARYS CHURCHYARD, Cholsey, Berkshire, forty seven miles west of London, lies Lady Mallowan- Dame Agatha Christie- who was known to millions of people throughout the world as the Queen of Crime, as she prefer, the Duchess of Death.(Robyns 3)According to Gwen Robyns, Agatha Christie has the most unique st yle of writing story, she doesnt base on and literature rule and still turn it into many wonderful novels. A lot of professor study about Agatha Christies writing. same(p) Professor Behr proved that the way her character say maybe misleading or false but on the other hand, it real and true, really inevitable (189). nation wonder if she used that character from real life. Agatha repliedNo, I dont. I invent them. They are mine. Theyve got to be my character- doing what I want them to do, being what I want them to be- coming alive for me, having their own ides sometimes, but only because Ive made them become real. (Robyn 190)Like she said she Agatha Christie had no ambition to create a literary style, she uses her own world as her own strength. Her stories use easy language, easy to understand, that helps reader have a way to connect to the character and make it real. She put so much effort in to whats she doing. In order to write a book, she has to work through all winter, and spri ng to be able to publish in September. Agatha said you must decide what kind of style you want to work in and then read book that have a same style. (Robyns 197) People think that writing is much easy for me. It isnt. Its murder. (197). Even though Agatha think she cant write but the fans still cannot find a small mistake in her ingenious writing. Mr. Max Mallowan shard with reader about his wifes writing styleMy wife always wrote the last chapter first. In this way she was able to gather up all the clues and nearly tie parcel. It was only after she had done this that she went back to the beginning and worked her way through.(Robyns 195)Agatha unique writing style is incredible, she thought of some ideas that people would never thought of. Like Murder on the Orient Express, the victim got murder while locomote to the gas station and the last seem reader knew before he death that he was looking at a back of the woman wearing kimono ( Christie 38). In Murder with Mirror by Christie, she created many character in order to trick viewer by thinking there would be a multiple choice of murderer. Most of the time the answer will review in the very end of the story and it always surprise fans. Creative, ingenious, incredible still not a word that we can withdraw Agatha Christies works.People got blow away while reading to her books, follow every step that Mr. Hercule Poirot make who is an hypothesize character made by Mrs. Christie. According to Janet Morgan, he appeared in 33 of Christies novels and 54 short stories (108) became the most famous character made by the Crime Queen. She named her detective Hercule Poirot for no particular reason. (Hack 64). Even though Agatha Christie is a very famous writer, but she still read and discovered about crime fiction by looking up other famous author. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is one of the them, Agatha read and learn that if she want her book to be famous and unique, she need to created some one that creative and as smart as the most famous detective of the day, Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr. John H. Watson, and that is how Hercule Poirot was born (64) go along with his friend headmaster Hasting. Poirot was Agatha biggest child, followed her through her life. According to Hack, in 1975, Agatha released the held Poirot manuscript titled Curtain( 229) to make an end for Poirot, it sold more than one hundred twenty thousand copies.Fans of Hercule Poirot were visibly moved by the book which found him now spunky with pain ,and, on the last page of the novel, he said farewell to his friend Captain Hasting.( Hack 229)Another famous character that created by Christie is a woman name Jane Marple. According to Hack she fly the coop Marple was introduced in the short stories, The Tuesday Night Club establishes 1928 Murder at the Vicarage in 1930, she name Miss Marple after the Maple Hall during visited her sister and this character was dedicated to her only daughter Rosalind (131). Agatha never forgot the g raceful decompose she saw at this once fine house and name Jane Marple in its honor.The Tuesday Night Club, Murder at the Vicarage gave Agatha a critical success goes along with some book like The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926), Murder on the Orient Express (1934), and Death on the Nile (1937). ( Mystery Time Line group).In Miss Marple, Agatha found a spirit whose observations she enjoy creating. The character herself was a spin-off from Caroline Sheppard, a old maid flower in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.Agatha Christie had fun and interested with this character, Miss Marple gave Agatha many success in short stories category. Like Poirot, Agatha gave Miss Marple an end in the book Sleeping Murder and it was a gift for her love Max, while Rosalind was given Curtain, the final case for Hercule Poirot. (Hack 163)Agatha Christie wrote ninety-four books all told and was translated into 103 languages, 14 more than Shake Speare. She wrote eighty-three detective stories, six straight nove ls (under the pseudonym of Mary Wesrmacott), one book of reminiscences, two of poems, and her autobiography. Four hundred million copies of her book have already been sold and there is no sign of a decline in sale. (Robyns 3)Agatha is truly a legend of crime fiction, the queen of crime like people use to call her. Murder/crime fiction come a long way and still developing itself. Agatha Christie, a name that well never forget she gave her all and never want much for herself. She left rat so many great novel and wonderful art work and she will always be the most popular mystery writer of all time. Because like she said I did not have to be polite when saying that I could see no limit to the popularity of my story ( Robyns 200)