Analyzing Richard Connell's 'The Dangerous Game'

Suspense is defined as the author withholding information or when the unexpected happens, leaving you guessing and wanting more. In the story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, he has inserted much suspense in this short (long) story, for the reason that it makes the reader want to know more and having to mindset of excitement or surprise. Another reason he added many suspense is so that it wouldn’t be so blunt, it wouldn’t just tell us what happened it would give us details and how he got or how he did that and more.

In Richard Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game”, the protagonist character, Sander Rainsford is an adventurous and fearless big game hunter. Rainsford has no remorse for his prey. Over the course of the story Rainsford experiences a sudden change of heart when he finds himself where “The world is made up of two classes—the hunters and the huntees.”

“The Most Dangerous Game”, by Richard Cornell was a story which Mr.Cornell used 8 aspects of fiction to show his point of view that one who has intellect can overcome one who has intelligence or instinct. The character’s used in the story gave the author a way to make his point of view come clear to his audience. The story uses sequence of events. The plot is how the story goes about. The setting is the surroundings of the story, or where it takes place. The suspense is the temporary holding of the information to keep the reading interested, and to keep the reader guessing and wanting to know what will happen so they will continue reading your story. Foreshadowing is the readers way of telling the ‘future’, in other words the writer is

In “The Most Dangerous Game” Zaroff’s perspective on the hunters and huntees is taken very literally in the sense that he is at the point where he would kill humans for fun, but Rainsford would only kill animals, and according to these perspective it can be assumed that Connell’s view on human nature is that there can be a dark side to human nature when they are removed from society to a place with no restraints. “I needed a new animal. I found one. So I bought this island, built this house, and here I do my hunting.(Connell 18)” This quote explains what people would do to others when there is no one watching. Zaroff buys a whole island just to hunt what he refers to as “new animals” but are humans. When in a place with no restrictions, people

Also, “The Most dangerous Game” is a success because it maintains a thrilling plot throughout the story. The plot made me want want to continue reading and find out what Rainsford’s fate would be. A perfect example of this is when Rainsford is being chased by General Zaroff, Ivan, and

In Richard Connell's short story, "The Most Dangerous Game';, the use of literary devices, found blended with other literary devices, gives the story an inner meaning. The blending of literary devices effectively expresses the intentions of Connell to present contrast between the antagonist and protagonist points of view. As a result, the reader can gain insight on the good and evil sides of the story to enhance the purpose of his interpretation. "The Most Dangerous Game'; by Richard Connell presents literary devices such as foreshadowing, setting, and irony which reveal the underlying meaning of the story.

In “The Most Dangerous Game,” Richard Connell correlates three common literary devices especially well: setting, suspense, and plot. Connell makes use of an appropriate setting, the literary element of suspense, and an interesting plot in order to strengthen the story’s recurring theme of reason versus instinct within humans, and to blur that line between reason and instinct.

Hunting big game animals for sport was a popular pastime with the wealthy classes following World War I. The morality of killing for sport was not questioned in reality, but in this short story the author does question it by taking it a step further and having the protagonist, Sangor Rainsford, hunted by the antagonist, General Zaroff.In a short story full of irony, one of the greatest ironies of Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” is that General Zaroff repeatedly tells Rainsford that he maintains a sense of civilization on his island.

In “The Most Dangerous Game”, author Richard Connell uses a variety of literary device to depict the theme. He uses the main character, Rainsford, to be the character which unfolds the theme as he goes through the experience of being treated like a wild animal and becoming the prey of another human for sport. Connell uses three literary devices frequently including foreshadowing, irony and symbolism in order to support the main theme, put yourself in the shoes of the animals you hunt.

All stories must have a conflict in them. Some have only one but the narrator and author of the short story “ The Most Dangerous Game’’ by Richard Connell has not only one but three to give the story a little rage . Man vs man, man vs himself and man vs nature are all included in the story. They all exist in the story and these are some of the examples the author puts on the story when writing it.

Who would you rather face in the middle of the night? A murder that kills people for fun, or a crazy man that buries people alive and screams in their face because he is crazy. In the story The Most Dangerous Game By Richard Connell, is based on an island where this man lives and he hunts animals. But he gets bored hunting animals, so he starts hunting humans. Ranisford just so happen to be one of those people. The second story The Cask Of Amontillado is about a man whose wants to get revenge on someone so he takes him into the catacombs, and he buries him alive by filling the room with mortar and brick. The one that I think that is the most Disturbing is The Worlds Most Dangerous Game

Sometimes pride can be a fatal game. “The Most Dangerous Game” is a short story where two men battle with egotism. Each one believes that he is the prime hunter and that nothing could stop either one of them. The protagonist, Rainsford, and antagonist, General Zaroff, are active huntsmen who use their vigorous and intelligent mind to each survive the dangers of Ship-Trap Island and be a successful hunter. Richard Connell's story of the deadly game evokes the theme of competent, prideful men who detach from morality.

Would a person be justified in killing a human being that has hunted and killed many other people? The short story, “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, helps to argue that the killing of human hunter can be overlooked. This short story is about a guy, named Rainsford, that gets stranded in the sea without his ship and makes his way to a nearby island in search of help. In the process of exploring the island, he stumbles across a mansion and while inside he meets General Zaroff who has found a new game to hunt for sport, humans. After three days of forcibly being General Zaroff’s prey, Rainsford ends up becoming the first to have beaten Zaroff. In the end, Rainsford took his opportunity to kill General Zaroff. Rainsford was acquitted

The author Richard Connell wrote the short story “The Most Dangerous Game”. This bone-chilling, suspense seeking story is about a protagonist named Rainsford who is a legendary hunter and an antagonist named Zaroff who is a Russian Cossack. Rainsford is on a yacht with a passenger named Whitney and the ship crew. Whitney goes to bed for the night after having a conversation with Rainsford hunting and where they are supposed to be heading. The protagonist in the story, after everyone goes to bed, hears gunshots off in the distance and he leans over the edge of the yacht to see what is going on and he leans over just too far and falls off the yacht.

The Most Dangerous Game The most dangerous game is a thrilling short story about three huntsmen with very different views. What happens if an expert hunter gets bored of hunting animals? The story starts off with three men, and it ends with only one. Now the question is, what happened to the other two hunters? Being stranded on an island, alone with a psychopath can really change someone.