“The Most Dangerous Game” (1924) is a short story written by Richard Connell that is about a “game” between two hunter. The protagonist, Rainsford, who is an American famous hunter, travel to Rio for hunting. However, Rainsford falls overboard and climb to the Ship-Trap Island. Rainsford met general Zaroff in the island, and Zaroff invite Rainsford join in the hunting game by hunting or survival. The Background of Rainsford and Zaroff is similar, but general Zaroff is an eccentric and versatile people. In the end, Rainsford is able to head off a danger in the island and won the game, also won the right to survive. In this article, the author carefully designed multiple conflicts, such as the conflict between man and nature, between persons, …show more content…
When his friend Whitney said "Even so, I rather think they understand one thing--fear. The fear of pain and the fear of death.” Rainsford says dismissively, “Be a realist. The world is made up of two classes--the hunters and the huntees. Luckily, you and I are hunters.” Rainsford always thought Human being is the most developed animal. This idea fully reflects Rainsford’s anthropocentrism. As a famous hunter, Rainsford despise any opponent and do not realize it is a barbarity by hunting animal. However, His trip is not go well and become a prey. In the Ship-Trap Island, Rainsford had understood the fear of pain and the fear of death. After a severe fight, Rainsford has got a profound understanding of the huntees. Certainly, this experience is challenge his original …show more content…
On one hand, Rainsford is a man of decency, enthusiasm and integrity, he has strong desire to live and indomitable fighting spirit to survive. Rainsford depends on his own resources and experience won the game. On the other hand, Zaroff had many advantages over Rainsford when the game began, but he is conceited and stuck-up, this causes he lost his life in the game. Besides, Zaroff’s hunting game is unhuman and injustice, such a premise has predetermined his
To convey the theme of competition can enhance a person’s character, Richard Connell has Rainsford succeed at the Most Dangerous Game. Rainsford shows through the big hunt growth because he knows strategies and ways to win the big hunt. The frightening event is when he has to build his traps to stay away from the General. The exciting is when he meets him back at the house and kills the General and win the Most Dangerous
Rainsford used his intelligences, strength, and roundness of a character to survive this mysterious torment. Rainsford is experienced. "I'm Sanger Rainsford of New York” ( Connel, 4). “You're a big-game hunter, not a philosopher.…
The most dangerous game was written by Richard Connell in 1924. It is a short story which has mystery, suspense and adventure. Also, it shows how people do their best to survive in different situations. This story consists of two main characters, Sanger Rainsford and General Zaroff. The story begins on a yacht in the Caribbean Sea.
Rainsford knew that he was unable to retreat and forced to face danger. Rainsford realized that animals felt and how they had to face the danger just like how he did.
Count Zaroff is a calculating killer, not only of animals, but people as well. On the first pages, when he and Rainsford were eating dinner, Zaroff is watching Rainsford eat in this new habitat Zaroff has put him in. Zaroff asks rainsford “perhaps you were surprised I recognized you... I have read all books on hunting in English, French and Russian” (Connell 45). When Rainsford goes up to his room, there are pajamas and new clothes already out for him in his exact size.
Stress and worry play huge roles in our everyday lives. But we don’t stress and worry about getting hunted like prey. Rainsford does. He is a well-known hunter who is abandoned in the ocean after falling off a yacht, and is welcome into the home of a man who also hunts, but not the same things as Rainsford. As Rainsford gets accustomed he soon learns he will become the hunted.
In the short story The Most Dangerous Game, the author Richard Connell shows that Rainsford needs control of his emotions, patience , and expert hunting and decision making skills in order to defeat Zaroff. Rainsford needs to gain control of his emotions to outthink Zaroff, who symbolizes Rainsfords "steep hill". When he finds that he is going to be hunted his natural instinct is to run and panic, but then he stops to look around and get a grip on the task at hand. Then at a critical moment when Zaroff finds him in a tree, Rainsford panics again because he realizes Zaroff is on his trail and is toying with him. Once again, he gains control of his emotions and formulates a plan.
Most people when they hear “The Most Dangerous Game” they think of bull riding or other dangerous games that don’t involve death. “The Most Dangerous Game” is a suspenseful cliff hanging story that follows the days of a castaway on the island of a crazed hunter. Rainsford is a big game hunter who falls off a boat near the island of General Zaroff, a big Cossack general who is looking for an alternative to hunting dangerous animals but with a twist. Throughout “The Dangerous Game” Rainsford and General Zaroff both show examples of IRony and exert arrogance.
Rainsford faces many conflicts along his journey on the island, such and man v.s nature, man v.s. himself, and man v.s man. He has to overcome all of this in order to keep calm, and survive. One of the conflict in “The Most Dangerous Game”, was man v.s. nature. This conflict presented itself at the beginning of the story, when Rainsford fell into the water.
General Zaroff is different, to say the least, in Richard Connell’s book, “The Most Dangerous Game.” Rainsford is stranded on a deserted island, or so he thinks. Rainsford comes upon a mansion that is owned by General Zaroff. He knows of Rainsford, who is a renowned author of a book about the hunt, as well as everything and everywhere Rainsford has hunted. General Zaroff is also a hunter, but he goes to the extreme.
Rainsford changes for the worse from a hunter to a murder following in Zaroff's
Firstly, in the story The Most Dangerous Game, Rainsford is justified in killing General Zaroff because on the island the only way to live is if the stranded people hunt or the stranded will in contrast become the ones being hunted. In the beginning of the story Rainsford is talking to Whitney about jaguars. Whitney is stating that the jaguars must feel some sort of feeling like fear or terror but in contrast Rainsford states that the jaguars have no understanding of feelings. Then Rainsford is put on a island where he symbolically represents the jaguar and General Zaroff would symbolically represent the hunter.
In Rainsford’s endangered state, he understands that animals have feelings of fear and realizes those
”(The Most Dangerous Game) This shows that Rainsford has learned the theme of the story because when he says that he is saying that he is still a trapped animal that has to fight back. This shows that he now knows how it felt to be hunted, and to be trapped and having to fight back and take risks to survive. Before the events that occurred in the story Rainsford had no idea how the animals felt and didn’t care how they felt, but after those events he knew how they felt and thought while being hunted and definitely cared about how they felt because he knew how much it hurt
Hunters believe animals are not capable of reasoning and they see them as something lesser than humans. Throughout time, these positions can change. The short story, “The Most Dangerous Game” written by Richard Connell, consists of General Zaroff being the hunter and Rainsford being the hunted. During the story, their positions change to the complete opposite.