THE PALE HORSE by Agatha Christie
"And I looked, and behold a Pale Horse; and his name that sat on him was death, and hell followed him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth."
The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie is basically a fiction story that includes murder by black magic. The story basically starts with a coffee bar fight between two young women, which is being witnessed by Mark Easterbrook who seems to be the protagonist of the whole story. And, then with the mysterious death of one of them in her apartment, which according to Mark is similar to the death of his grandmother as well. Thus, he travels to seek the truth of all the deaths that happened and, are further going to take place in the future. Discovering various connections linked to a particular inn named as the pale horse.
Agatha Christie
readers are quite well aware of her famous fictional detective character known
as Hercule Poirot. She got her first break with this particular character, but
apart that she also has a novelist detective character named Ariadne Oliver.
This particular book contains her presence but for a very short period of time.
Throughout the whole story, she is nowhere to be seen except the starting of the
plot and in between a few conversations. But in reality, she just plays a very
vital part which the readers will understand if they read the book because
without that particular conversation it would have been near about impossible
to solve the mystery. And the way Agatha has built up and introduced the particular
conversation is quite interestingly fabulous (according to me).
Even though it might seem by the zest that the book is trying
to provoke superstition among the readers, but it won’t seem that it is in any
way doing so, because I felt it is trying to do the reverse by showing the
readers to let go of the fear of superstition. It also encourages people to question
the deceitfulness that people face in their day to day life. They should always
try to question the unquestionable and trust only after full analysis.
Even the whole story can be depicted in the above way but it
also has a connection to the bible. Where? It is in 'Revelation' of chapter six, verse
eight, the pale horse is said to be connected to the four horses, of which the fourth horse or the horse of death is the pale horse.
Even though all was fine but there seemed to have just one problem
that I personally disliked, was the fact that the built-up was really awesome,
but the ending seemed to be finished haphazardly. But, Above all this was
really a great book to read, and I would undoubtedly recommend the readers to
read this book. This book is even telecasted as a BBC program. If you want to experience something different other than a simple
detective genre then this is the best to try out.
My Rating - 4\5 stars
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