Rainsford Argumentative Essay

Everyone must know that fear has its negative effects, but it also has its positive effects on humans. Fear can help you to be more aware and prevents harm to you and others around you since you are more cautious. However, on the other side of the spectrum, fear can bring obsession such as losing control of yourself to focus on certain people or objects, and can bring poignancy to your life. Both aspects of fear are shown in Edgar Allan Poe’s renown stories, ¨The Tell-Tale Heart,¨ ¨The Pit and the Pendulum,¨ and ¨The Masque of Red Death,¨ where all the main characters are introduced to fear, but all approach it differently.

He discovers what it is like to be running for one's life. This is role reversal because he is now hunted opposed to being the hunted. The antagonist in the story plays the most dangerous game with Rainsford. Rainsford is so scared and experiments how his preys feel when he hunts them. Since Rainsford is a world class hunter, he is a a great match for Zaroff who is a excellent hunter himself.

Killing a man is one of the scariest things to do, but what he is killing for is right. Doing what is right and hard to do and is fearful is courage. Rainsford showing a great example of courage demonstrates that he has what it takes to be a survivor. –Nolan In like manner, Hyeonseo Lee is very courageous but is also adaptable.

One of the first instances of situational irony is when the “would be” kidnappers first carry little “Red Chief” off to their lair. The reader expects the kidnappers to be serious and smarter than they are in the story. They try to be serious but they just can’t control themselves. However, the kidnappers do not behave as the reader would expect, instead they act kind of scared of “Red Chief”.

‘His pursuers had stopped. ’”(Connell 235) This quote basically means Rainsford did everything he could to try to get away from Zaroff and when they finally stopped pursuing him, Rainsford was thrilled. This is why Rainsford is brave. Not only is Rainsford hopeful, he is clever.

At one point Rainsford thinks to himself, “He was in a picture with a frame of water, and his operations, clearly must take place within that frame”(11). This is clearly when Rainsford realizes that he is trapped. Also if General Zaroff had not built the false channel then the plot would not be grabbing. This is because Zaroff gets his prey off of

  Rainsford used his intelligence to out think Zaroff. If it weren't for his knowledge and strength, Rainsford would have failed immediately. Rainsford used many different techniques to survive a dangerous game. He was willing took succesd. Rainsford is what you call outgoing when it comes down to competition.

In the beginning of the film, Spade is seen struggling to control his greed because he never misses an opportunity to make some quick money even if that involves his collaboration with the antagonists. However, at the end of the film, viewers realize that he still ends up apprehending the criminals. As a result, “Spade’s ongoing involvement in the Maltese Falcon case is a source of doubtful speculation” (“Detective Fiction” Rzepka 196). It is worth mentioning that Sam Spade is an “outlaw hero”. In The Thematic Paradigm, Robert B. Ray defines an outlaw hero as someone that “portrayed the law, the sum of society’s standards, as a collective, impersonal ideology imposed on the individual” (454).

One way that Odysseus shows cleverness is when he is able to get his men out of dangerous situations. Two stories in which Odysseus uses his cleverness to get him and his men out of dangerous situations are in “Scylla and Charybdis”, and “The Cyclops”. Another way how Odysseus shows his cleverness is he deceives others to his advantage. In “The Cyclops” he deceives Polyphemus when he tricks him into thinking his name is Nohbody, and this helps him to escape the island and not get caught. Cleverness is a trait in The Odyssey that helped Odysseus to get him and his men out of dangerous situations, and cleverness also helped deceive others to Odysseus’

Ulysses is also brave, strategic, sentimental, cunning, shrewd, and the main character of the film, but he is not full of hubris like Odysseus is. He is brave and strategic when he escapes from jail, which had to take time and effort. He knows that if they get caught, they would have to go through the consequences. For example, they would probably be imprisoned again. Knowing this does not change his mind, which makes him brave.

As well as, in “The Most Dangerous Game” Rainsford used is craftiness to show what it takes to be a survivor by being hunted by General Zaroff. In the story, Rainsford prepared a contraption that General Zaroff did not realize and he was struck in the shoulder by a lifeless tree.(page 14 line numbers 592-597) That contraption was very crafty to create. The contraption saved Rainsford because he would have gotten shot by General Zaroff. That also gave him another night to create another contraption so kill General Zaroff. Being crafty showed what it takes to survive by being hunted by another