100% satisfaction guarantee Immediately available after payment Both online and in PDF No strings attached 4.2 TrustPilot
logo-home
Summary

Summary The Murder of Roger Ackroyd- Quotes

Rating
-
Sold
-
Pages
10
Uploaded on
04-06-2025
Written in
2024/2025

A table including key quotes from Agatha Christie's 'The Murder of Roger Ackroyd' sorted by themes (Violence, Detection, Gossip, and Law vs Ethics)










Whoops! We can’t load your doc right now. Try again or contact support.

Document information

Summarized whole book?
Yes
Uploaded on
June 4, 2025
Number of pages
10
Written in
2024/2025
Type
Summary

Content preview

Alienation Family
"Hissing and crying 'Shoo!' like a "His sister began to sob"
savage"
"That [being a bug] made his "Oh sir do spare my parents"
mother cry"



"No one was likely to visit him" "Perhaps his father noted his
good intentions, for he did not
interfere except every now and
then to help him in the
manoeuvre from a distance"
"She was so startled that without "was certainly why his sister had
being able to help it she slammed set it there for him" [Food]
the door shut again"

"Realised how replusive the sight of "Family vainly urging another to
him still was to her" [Grete] eat"



"misfortune such as had never "This was the first time she had
happened to any of their relations or addressed him since his
acquaintances" metamorphosis" [Grete]
"It's such a long time since he's "Embracing him in complete
eaten anything" union with him- but here Gregor's
sight began to fail- with her hands
clasped around his father's neck
as she begged for her son's life"


"his father did recollect that
Gregor was a member of the
family"
"family duty required the
suppression of disgust and the
excersise of patience, nothing but
patience"
"misfortune such as had never
happened to any of their relations
or acquaintances"
"He would never let her out of his
room, at least, not so long as he
lived"
"that because of the disgusting
conditions prevailing in this
household and family"

, "I won't utter my brother's name
in the presence of this creature,
and so all i say is: we must get rid
of it"
"Rotting apple in his back"
£8.46
Get access to the full document:

100% satisfaction guarantee
Immediately available after payment
Both online and in PDF
No strings attached

Get to know the seller
Seller avatar
marthapeacock

Also available in package deal

Thumbnail
Package deal
‘The murder of Roger Ackroyd’ with ‘Whenwill there be Good News?’
-
3 2025
£ 25.98 More info

Get to know the seller

Seller avatar
marthapeacock East Berkshire College, Langley
View profile
Follow You need to be logged in order to follow users or courses
Sold
0
Member since
6 months
Number of followers
0
Documents
16
Last sold
-

0.0

0 reviews

5
0
4
0
3
0
2
0
1
0

Recently viewed by you

Why students choose Stuvia

Created by fellow students, verified by reviews

Quality you can trust: written by students who passed their exams and reviewed by others who've used these revision notes.

Didn't get what you expected? Choose another document

No problem! You can straightaway pick a different document that better suits what you're after.

Pay as you like, start learning straight away

No subscription, no commitments. Pay the way you're used to via credit card and download your PDF document instantly.

Student with book image

“Bought, downloaded, and smashed it. It really can be that simple.”

Alisha Student

Frequently asked questions