Why We Love Antiheroes?
This article is study the concept of Antihero, in context with And Then There Were None a novel by Agatha Christie and further explores how the character of an antihero affects the story and finally checks if Philip Lombard fits the title of “Antihero”. Antiheroes are a quintessential element of Modernism, postmodernism and existentialism. Although the breed of anti heroes came into focus and entered the main stream of literature in large numbers roughly during and after the period of Modernism, the concept was present even before. A hero is a main character of a literary work that perform great deeds for the common good, whereas an antihero is someone with some of the qualities of a villain, up to and including brutality, cynicism, and ruthlessness, but with the soul or motivations of a more conventional Hero. The spice of a story, the element that makes it more than a simple traditional story of heroes and villains, lies within the char...