Analytical Essay: General Zaroff Wins The Game

Thesis: General Zaroff is the main Antagonist in The Most Dangerous Game. General Zaroff shows an affection for chasing, a frail and unremorseful personality, General Zaroff also shows pride and arrogance. These three character attributes

Imagine a time where you had an argument with your parents. What would was the outcome of the argument? Did you get what you wanted? Many may wonder: why would you argue with when you now you most likely will not get your way. Maybe we argue because we are mad and want to vent Maybe we argue because we are convinced we are right even if we realize later that we weren't. We ask ourselves why why do we fight battles we now we are destined to lose? The argument of “The Most Dangerous Game” General Zaroff, hunts trapped sailors on his island. He does this because he is bored of hunting animals he knows he will win. He thinks he will also defeat Rainsford, other great hunter. Zaroff is a murderer and is uncivilized because he killed people

Zaroff makes sure that he can play the game with an opponent but he also makes sure that the opponent does not win. He thinks he is playing fair but the truth is, he does not play by the rules, as players of a game should. Zaroff uses his wealth to get whatever he wants to please himself. He has a butler named Ivan, who is a Cossack, which are strong yet deaf and dumb Ukrainians. He also knows his way around the island so he will know which direction to go and he has his home as a safe house. He has about a dozen dogs for even more protection and a gun. As a result, if anything might happen to Zaroff while playing the game, he will result in receiving help from his advantage.

Only, this isn’t fantasy. Zaroff is not a character from a book. He is alive and well. This is real life. And the General’s existence is a crime and should have consequences for it’s actions.

General Zaroff is killed by Rainsford. Zaroff was killed by Rainsford because Zaroff had killed people for fun. Since General Zaroff did killed humans, karma came back around and he was killed. When Zaroff was hunting for Rainsford, Rainsford sets up a trap and it kills Ivan, Zaroff’s only friend. General Zaroff has killed humans that have their own friends and family. Ivan was taken away from General Zaroff as a sign of karma. While Zaroff is looking to kill Rainsford, Zaroff doesn’t know that Rainsford had a trap set up to kill Zaroff. When General Zaroff realized that he had been set up for a trap, he quickly moved out of the way. Even though Zaroff moved out of the way, the trap still hurt his shoulder. Zaroff had hurt other people during the past games that he had played, so he got hurt playing the game. General Zaroff has learned that what goes around, comes

The Book the most Dangerous Game is about Rainsford who is a hunter that got stranded on an island. He looks around the Island in search of other people so he can get food and a place to sleep for the night. While searching he is able to find a manor of sorts that has General Zaroff, a man who says to him that the only way to escape the island is to beat him in a hunt. What kind of characters are Rainsford and General Zaroff though? Both General Zaroff and Rainsford are similar in a few ways but they are both very different kinds of characters.

The harsh truth of island life reveals that Zaroff’s idea of civilization includes personal pleasure derived from murder .Zaroff explains his “game.” Zaroff has become bored with hunting because the animals do not provide a challenge for him, so hunts the only animal that can think and reason—man (Connell 74).He believes that he deserves the challenge, so it is morally right to hunt men. This is not civilized behavior. It is murder. He tries explains why it is right. “‘If I wish to hunt, why should I not? I hunt the scum of the earth—[…]’”(Connell 75).Zaroff believes that his social status and wealth give him the right to kill those in lower classes. This

General Zaroff is a key character in the story “The Most Dangerous Game” because he is a character straight out of fiction.

In “The Most Dangerous Game”, Rainsford is terrified to find that General Zaroff is actually a murder. Rainsford is listening intently to the new “species” that General Zaroff is describing as hunt for his game. General Zaroff has a passion and has become obsessed with hunt because it “had been (his) life”, but sadly “hunting was beginning to bore (him)”. He was eager to continue hunting because of how much he enjoyed it. He needed a new way to satisfy himself while still involving himself in hunting. He decided to go to the extremity of killing people to satisfy himself and make him find new excitement in the one hobby that used to be his life and his source of happiness. General Zaroff’s love and passion for hunting cause him to kill and murder because hunting animals was not satisfying him anymore. Rainsford realizes that he is in the presence of a murderer and when General Zaroff is describing how he has found a new hunt for killing Rainsford figures out that “what (General Zaroff) speak of is murder”. While Zaroff is defending himself by saying that he is not murdering, he does not realize that he sounds foolish because he is saying that he has fallen in love with hunting of humans’ The idea that someone is no joke, but General Zaroff thinks “it’s a game”. Consequently, General Zaroff’s dark side comes through because his love for hunting

When my parents were kids,cell phones were unheard of. My generation,on the other hand,cant live without them.General Zaroff and Rainsford,the two main characters in the story,both cant live without hunting.Zaroff says he has hunted every animal,so he creates his own most dangerous game.Zaroff hunts Rainsford on an Isolated island with no witness’s.If Rainsford gets killed within 3 days he loses.But,If he survives he gets sent home.In the book,The most dangerous game,by Richard Connell,it is clear that Rainsford changes from the beginning of the book to the end.In the beginning Rainsford is curious about what the animals he hunts feel like.He makes it clear he feels the animals he hunt are just there for him to kill.With the events that occur during the book change his view.

Matteo Romano Mrs. Armor World Literature I November 13, 2014 General Zaroff General Zaroff from Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game", is mentally unstable and shows many maniacal behaviors in the story. These behaviors come in the form of intentionally trapping ships to stock his island with humans. He then hunts said humans because he finds it dangerous and exciting, and he also lives in isolation, only having contact with Ivan his servant. All of these aspects of his life contribute to his semi-insane traits which he demonstrates in the story.

The General also thinks of himself as the best hunter out there. To show that he is a confident person, on page ** “ The general chuckled. “They indicate a channel,” he said, “ Where there’s none; giant rocks with razor edges crouch like a sea monster with wide-open jaws.” This indicates that Zaroff uses his intellect to show his power by tricking people to become ship-wrecked on his island. Another way he shows confidence is by giving his prey a three hour head start. General Zaroff believes that even if he gives his opponents a head start he is able to find them. To prove this, on page #** states that "It's a game, you see," pursued the general blandly. "I suggest to one of them that we go hunting. I give him a supply of food and an excellent hunting knife. I give him three hours' start.” Lastly, the general shows that he is confident by boasting to Rainsford that he has never lost to an opponent. This can be found on one of the pages that says “The smile on the general's face widened. "To date I have not lost," he said. Then he added, hastily: "I don't wish you to think me a braggart, Mr. Rainsford.”(Connell**) His other personality is psychosis. One reason why he shows that he is psychotic is when he loses interest in hunting animals and is intrigued on hunting a species that has

This wraps the story up into one message and meaning while being able to also be applied to other situations and texts. The theme for The Most Dangerous Game is kindness doesn’t always equal a person's trustworthiness. The author writes “Now you want clothes, food, rest. You shall have them. This is a most restful spot” (Connell 21). This is showing General Zaroff being extremely nice to Rainsford. This is when he just arrives so he is scared and vulnerable at this point in the story. He is building that nice guy acts that Rainsford believes in the beginning which is the start of the theme Connell is going for. The text communicates, “You’ll find that my clothes will fit you, I think” (Connell 21). Zaroff is using the fact that him and Rainsford and alike to gain his trust. Connell is adding to the niceness part of his theme by showing Zaroff being kind when he really is doing it for evil. Within the text is says,“It is a great pleasure and honor to welcome Mr. Sanger Rainsford, the celebrated hunter, to my home” (Connell 21). Now Zaroff is showing interest in and knowledge about Rainsford. This is another thing that makes him seem trustworthy. Yet, in the end, Zaroff is a hunter that kills the humans that wash up on his island. His theme is shown from start to end as he starts being nice until he officially tries to kill the trusting Rainsford. The theme really ties the whole story together

In the book “The Most Dangerous Game” , The antagonist General Zaroff lost his humanity When he started the most dangerous game. Humanity is defined as characteristics belong uniquely to humans, such as kindness, mercy, and sympathy. Zaroff is an inhuman type of person that does not see others as people and cares not for what they feel. An example of how in human is when he told Rainsford “Life is for the strong, Lived by the strong and taken by the strong.” As the general said he only feels the strong should live and he cares not for anyone he deems weak or how they feel. Zaroff would let people suffer and not feel any sympathy or mercy about it at all for it pleasures him. He Believes that if a person has no value to him then then they do

First of all, if it be murder, soon after they would say that Rainsford wants to kill General Zaroff, but he did not, and also it did not say that Rainsford did not like him. Furthermore, it says, "I treat these visitors with every consideration. They get plenty of good food exercise,"(lines 438-439). General Zaroff treats the people that are from the ships kindly. He does not punish them or reform anything awful to them. Even though General Zaroff is welcoming and courteous in away he was still going to kill the people. That is why he is being superior to them in the first place because after, they are going to be dead. He treats them with acceptable supply after he yens them to be active when they are playing the game. If they are weak, at that instant the hunting is going to be stale to General Zaroff. This is why people would assume it be murder, but for real, it was for General Zaroff to have a wonderful hunt since most of the people had no clue about hunting. Secondly, it may be true that it be murder since Rainsford killed General Zaroff, on the other hand the text states, "I give him his option of course. He need not play that game if he does not wish to. If he does not wish to, I turn him over to Ivan. Ivan once had the honor of serving as official knouted,"(lines 457-460). Is they’re actually a choice the people have? The reader would say no. Either way, the people are going to die. They truly did not have a choice to make. Even if the people did not want to play the game, they were still going to die no matter what. There is no way out of it. Staying on the island, there is no escape due to either way the people would be caught. Rainsford did have a choice; uncertainly it would not be murder. Therefore, all of the reasons for why someone may suppose Rainsford killing of General Zaroff is murder are not