In "Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Cornell, Zaroff reveals strength, ingenuity, and a selfishness through his murderous and questionable methods of hunting.…
Imagine a jaguar trapped on a desolate island. Suddenly, a gunshot is heard. The jaguar turns around and sees a hunter pursuing him! It runs for cover and hides behind a bush, out of the hunter's eye, or is it? The hunter stares straight at the bush in which the jaguar lays and then walks away. The jaguar knows it's going to be hunted each day until the hunter succeeds. Its life is in jeopardy. This is exactly how Rainsford feels when he is hunted by General Zaroff. Suspense, setting, and irony make Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game" an electrifying short story.…
When you first read the most dangerous game you are automatically faced with the question of the two men’s humanity. Are they barbarians? Are they completely sane? The main question is, are either of them civilized? When you think about it Sanger Rainsford is clearly more civilized compared to General Zaroff. I know this because he is with the common folk, he can tell that killing is immoral, and acts in a mature respectful way.…
A story full of action, suspense, well developed characters, and a titanic struggle of good vs. evil is "The Most Dangerous Game." In this story the author, Richard Connell, shows the reader his traits of his characters and how they do what they do with the plot. The main character, Rainsford, tests his wits against Zaroff, the antagonist of the story. The author also cleverly puts in ironic twists in the story to enhance his elements. The elements of plot and character will be analyzed in this essay.…
3. At just about the middle of the story (end of paragraph 9), Eveline sums up her life in Dublin. “It was hard work-a hard life-but now that she was about to…
Perhaps one of the reasons that “The Most Dangerous Game” is still read to this day may be because of the ambiguous ending that this short story has. The way the story is left off leads the reader to many different conclusions as to what happened. Perhaps the two most common inferences would be that either Rainsford realizes that he is becoming like Zaroff, or Rainsford realizes that he is nothing like Zaroff and takes comfort in this. There is much evidence that supports both of these theories.…
Unlike Prosser, General Zaroff (antagonist) seems to be living in a fantasy land in his mind. He makes his home in a mansion on ‘Ship Trap’ island which he purchased for himself. Zaroff leads a very civilized life, which on the surface, seems to be completely normal. He welcomes Rainsford (protagonist) with open arms into his home as he says, “It is a very great pleasure and honor to welcome Mr. Sanger Rainsford, the celebrated hunter, to my home” (p. 4). Zaroff has many possessions and seems to be of the upper class. He intentionally obtains the finest of everything in order to give the impression that he leads a…
When you think of friendship you don’t typically thing of shooting one another or leaving one out in the cold while the others enjoy themselves in comfort. Well that is an exactly what the three friend Frank, Tub, And Kenny did to each other. The characters in Tobias Wolff’s “Hunters in the Snow” change their sense of morality because of their selfish need for acceptance, the end of the story ultimately challenges their justification.…
Have you ever told someone that you know how they feel or that you feel their pain? Is that really possible? Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” introduces many different themes through the characters of General Zaroff and Sanger Rainsford. In “The Most Dangerous Game”, written by Richard Connell, Richard Connell develops the theme that to fully understand another’s plight, man must first experience it himself through Rainsford and Zaroff’s views on hunting at the beginning, middle, and end of the story.…
The story “The Most Dangerous Game” is about two men, Zaroff and Rainsford, both hunters but one has a different view on hunting, the other a good hunter with great skills who hunts animals, but it ends up one will hunt the other. This story was a little out of the ordinary.…
First published in 1924, Richard Connell 's "The Most Dangerous Game" is perhaps the finest example to date of the "hunter-becomes-the-hunted" tale. Connell, a combat veteran of World War I, began with a somewhat hackneyed plot line, but via excellent description, taut pacing, and crisp dialogue, the young writer produced a surprisingly enduring action-adventure story. Winner of the O 'Henry Memorial Award the year it was published, the tale remains a staple of anthologies of American short fiction. Although commonly dismissed as little more than an exciting, testosterone-pumping duel between two well-matched professional hunters, there is a deeper political and social meaning to this widely read but rarely critiqued story. Beneath the thrill of the chase, the two main characters--Sanger Rainsford, a young American traveler, and General Zaroff, an old Russian aristocrat--represent competing views of the world that were at strong odds in the first quarter of the twentieth century.…
Although Frost describes a place in the woods the reader gets the feeling that this just a symbolic setting. And that the actual setting is that of everyday choices that need to be made. Some of which will be uninformed and that the reader has to do what they believe is right or best for them.…
In “Hunters In The Snow” By Tobias Wolff, A statement is being made by the narrator at the end of the story when it said, “They had taken a wrong turn a long way back” the ending indicates a dramatic irony; Kenny wounded in the truck, Frank and Tub eating in the diner, truly having no idea of the death approaching. This is an appropriate conclusion to the story because it makes the readers think about what happened after Kenny, Frank, And Tub lost their way going to the hospital. It also makes the readers ask more questions towards the end and the begging of the story, as if the characters Tub and Frank were giving excuses to not get Kenny to the hospital or would they have acted the same towards Kenny if it was hot outside or if it was storming? The cold weather just gave them a more reasonable excuse; I think they would’ve still found an…
General Zaroff’s refined emotions conceal a disturbing desire to inflict suffering and death for his own amusement. In many ways, Zaroff considers himself a god who can go about life as he pleases. Zaroffs’s madness stems from a life of wealth, luxury, and militarism, which inflate his ego and sense of entitlement and impose few limits on his desires. Zaroff began hunting at an early age when he shot his father’s prized turkeys and continually sought out bigger game in his family’s tract of wilderness in the Crimea, a peninsula on the Black Sea. Commanding a division of Cossack cavalrymen in Russia, meanwhile, familiarized Zaroff with the horrors and atrocities of warfare. He continued to hunt after the czar had fallen when he came to America. He eventually tired of hunting animals and claimed it was no longer a challenge but a “mathematical certainty”. He decided he had to do something to keep from “going to pieces”. His bloodlust and passion for hunting eventually prompted him to hunt men, the most cunning and challenging prey he could find.…
Sanger Rainsford and General Zaroff are very alike in some ways. Both want to have the upper hand in an argument or situation. In the beginning of “The Most Dangerous Game”, Zaroff has the upper hand as he knows the terrain and has a threatening bodyguard. He allowed Rainsford to eat and stay at his château after he fell overboard. At the end of the story, Rainsford has the upper hand as he won “the game”, surprises Zaroff, and forces Zaroff to play the game he forced himself (Rainsford) to play.…