Human Nature,Natural Law And Ultimate Justice

The detective novel is a literary form based on logical reasoning and criminal psychology with the topic of criminal investigation.It is usually regarded as a kind of popular literature.Compared with other literary genres,detective novels receive less attention in academic circles.However,Agatha Christie’s works are an exception.Her works are not only popular among readers,but also inspire many scholars’ researches.The writer believes the main reason is that Agatha’s works not only show mysterious murder,rich imagination and elaborative reasoning,but also go beyond the limitations of traditional detective novels.Agatha’s works explore the relationship between universal justice and law on a metaphysical level.They express the realistic demands of the harmonious development of ethics and law,and also express the author’s good wishes for the survival and continuous evolution of human civilization.This thesis selects Agatha’s three most representative novels Death on the Nile,Murder on the Orient Express and And Then There Were None,from the perspectives of plot layout,narrative strategy and characterization,to analyze and explore how Agatha expresses the conflicts between national law and public ethics through the display of the characters’ complex humanity.Those conflicts cannot be solved in certain cases.And then the writer will analyze Agatha’s thinking and difficult choices on human nature,ethics,morality,law and justice,and on the survival and development of human civilization.Agatha believed that evil must be against humanity and against natural law.When the human law is powerless against evil,human conscience calls for justice and the incarnation of natural law to punish evil and extol good.At the same time,she also issued a major warning against the imperfection and even defects of the rationality of human as the historical subject,and placed the hope on human rationality and divinity for the survival and development of human civilization.