Providence, Justice, and the Avenger

From A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
Hope frames himself not as a murderer but as an instrument of divine justice, raising the novel's central moral question about lawful versus righteous vengeance.
Part II, Chapter 6

Hope: 'It was not, however, mere chance which brought Drebber and Stangerson into my power... but the hand of God which was felt through all the universe.'

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