Ferrars’s suicide note to Ackroyd might reveal him as her blackmailer. Sheppard murdered Ackroyd was because he suspected that Mrs. The danger of implementing one’s belief in a critical situation, rather than applying the scientific method or logic, is another way Christie advances her theme. By making her audience run with this assumption throughout the book, Christie stuns them with the real murderer and proves to her audience the importance and validity of reasoning over assuming. Christie plays with the minds of her audience by going against the norm of many other books where the expectation for the antagonist is usually someone other than the narrator, who is in fact normally portrayed in a more positive light. This characterization of Sheppard shows the audience that he is a people person and that he would never come close to committing a horrendous crime. For example, Sheppard’s neighbor constantly refers to him as a “friend” right from when they meet for the very first time. Her audience casually goes through the book by assuming that Sheppard’s amiable character and affectionate manner is accurate, without realizing or even considering the possibility of him being Ackroyd’s murderer. Sheppard’s point of view, Christie places some faith in him. Through an illusory point of view, inaccurate conclusions drawn by characters throughout the book, and initial accusations that turn out to be wrong, Christie demonstrates the deceptive nature of assumptions and suspicions as well as the importance of clear-cut rationale.īy narrating the book through Dr. In Agatha Christie’s novel, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, this idea is widely apparent. ” We, as humans, no matter our experience, have a weak spot for automatically putting things in place that aren’t meant to be. Often times, we overlook information for the benefit of our comfort or for the sake of gaining a sense of “wholeness” or “completeness. However, the fragility of the process of reasoning is something that humans do not fully comprehend.
Based on evidence and factual information, we collect and pan out logic in the form of events, taking it little by little, step by step. As humans, in many cases, it is our nature to bring things together, to make sense of them, and to find the pieces of a puzzle if they go missing.
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