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The Most Dangerous Game And Frank Stockton's The Lady

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Literature has its fair share of antagonists. However, Richard Conell’s suspenseful “The Most Dangerous Game” and Frank Stockton’s “The Lady or Tiger” antagonists are first described and disguised as civilized characters but slowly are turned into sinister characters who perform heinous actions. The King from “The Lady or the Tiger” shows a bigger depth of corrupt actions as he allows his victims to choose their own destiny with the ultimate factor between life and death are the fated doors in the his arena.
In “The Lady or the Tiger” the author, Frank Stockton, crafts the King as a more heinous character than General Zaroff from “The Most Dangerous Game.” On page 31 the author describes “... for nothing pleased him so much as to make the

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