Comparison Of High Noon And The Most Dangerous Game

All in all the author, Richard Connell, uses conflicts in the story “The Most Dangerous Game” to reveal the traits of characters and to show how they relate to the different types disputes and decisions. Rainsford battled both external and internal conflicts throughout the story but manages to make the best out of them. Rainsford also goes through many trials and decisions which show his many characteristics

The Most Dangerous Game was a story made by Richard Connell in 1924, and had a movie adaptation in 1932. The short story tells about a man stranded on an island by the name of Rainsford. He finds Zaroff, a general with a great lust for hunting, who hunts people and Rainsford himself going to be hunted. He then attempts to outwit the general and ends up possibly taking his place. The film tries to encapsulate the excitement and story of the original version with more enticing visual effects and mostly succeeds. Although the film shares many themes and characteristics as the story, it has also changed many key factors.

Did you know that “The Most Dangerous Game” and “The Hunters In The Snow” could be similar in so many ways but have some differences in both stories? There are two main characters in “The Most Dangerous Game” and that is Rainsford and General Zaroff and in “The Hunter In The Snow” has three main characters and that is supposedly friends and that is Tub, Frank, and Kenny. In both stories there are similar times that the elements of the two stories could have similarities and differences. In both stories there are instances that involves hunting. In the stories there could be as each characters have problems with each other or individual. In the stories there are times when the author wants to get the point across and allow the readers to

In High Noon, the theme was stand up for yourself don't run. Kane showed us this by saying "'It's not good. I've got to go back Amy'" (Foreman 316). This quote is showing us that Kane is going back to town to fight off the vigilantes. This sets you up for the rest of the movie, as Kane stays in town to fight the four men. Kane also said he never ran from anyone or anything in his life, so he went back to town for deputies. He soon realized nobody from the town was going to help him, because Frank was a very scary and bad person. Kane with help from his wife Amy were able to kill all four men and leave the town. During "The Most Dangerous Game", Whitney and Rainsford were discussing hunting. Rainsford said "'The best sport in the world'", but Whitney said "'For the hunter. Not for the jaguar'" (Connell). This quote explained the theme that it's better to be a hunter than to be hunted. In the beginning of the story, Rainsford is the hunter who hunts animals. He believes that animals don't have feelings, but was stuck on the island forced to play Zaroff's game. This lead to Rainsford becoming the hunted. He quickly realized that animals have feelings when they're being hunted. Like Kane, Rainsford was very scared, but the overall message of the stories is different. Although both stories are very similar, the overall message of both stories is very

In High Noon, Harvey tells Kane, "Well here's what I want you to do, Will. When the old boys come, you tell 'em you want me to be Marshall, and tomorrow they can tell the new man they're sorry but the jobs filled" (Winston 300). After the fight between Zaroff and Rainsford in The Most Dangerous Game, Rainsford wins. If he really wants to, he could decide to take over Zaroff place of hunting. A reason why he might do this is because, how will he get off of the island? He doesn't know how he will escape the island. Zaroff has lived there for plenty of years and was still living and still in good condition. He most likely has a good supply of food

"High Noon" and The Most Dangerous Game both describe a sense of isolation. The movie, "High Noon" expresses isolation by showing visuals of a deserted town and an empty railroad. The book, The Most Dangerous Game, shows isolation by having the protagonist of the story working alone to stay alive. Although these plots have a similar theme and setting, their main characters and conflict are notably different.

There are many reasons including vengeance as well as boredom. "Don't you remember when he sat in that chair there and said–'you'll never hang me I'll be back! I'll kill you, Kane! I swear it, I'll kill you!'" (Foreman 30). High Noon is all about the revenge of Frank Miller who is vengeful for being put in jail by the one and only Will Kane. Kane is wanted for revenge, his survival depends on a psycho's plan failing. "No thrill left in tigers, no real danger. I live for danger, Mr. Rainsford"(Connell 6). Kane is wanted for revenge meanwhile Rainsford is hunted for a different reason. When General Zaroff said the quote above, he implied that the fun originally found in the embodiment of hunting, was now gone. Because of the joy having gone from his beloved sport, he hunts Rainsford for fun which eventually ends up being his last hunt. Both characters are hunted but the difference is vengeance vs. enjoyment.

Throughout their lives, people will almost always be required to display admirable traits such as acting courageous in the malevolent face of danger. High Noon, a film, written by Carl Foreman, tells the story of a lone marshal who must fight a deadly battle in a lawless town with all aspects of his life at stake. In the story, The Most Dangerous Game, written by Richard Connell, a renowned hunter is shipwrecked on an island, and forced to survive and fight for his life. Even though the conflicts are different in The Most Dangerous Game and High Noon, both the film and the story share similarities through their settings and protagonists.

In the story, The Most Dangerous Game and the movie, High Noon, there are similar conflicts where the protagonist is fighting

"You'll find this game worth playing, "Your brain against mine..." (Connell 11). This quote shows that to Zaroff he didn't care who he hunted he found the hunting fun like a game. "They'll just come after us four of them, and we'd be all alone on the prairie" (Foreman 24). This quote shows that no matter where Kane went and how far he went Miller would come for him because he wanted revenge for what Kane had did to him. Both Kane and Rainsford were being hunted for different

For starters, High Noon is a movie, not a book, unlike "The Most Dangerous Game" which is a short story. And at the end of High Noon, Will Kane does get help from his wife Amy. However in "The Most Dangerous Game", the island has no one to offer that could interfere with Rainsford's fight against Zaroff. "'I need help,' Kane says, 'I need as many special deputies as I can get'" (Foreman 312). Kane has the opportunity for help from his own town which is opposed to Rainsford being on a tropical yet deadly island with no civilization open to him. It is fundamental to understand that the types of areas have major significance affecting each story; High Noon's setting is a small town surrounded by desert, symbolizing that there is no escaping the problems Kane has to eventually face. "'Watch! Out there... They indicate a channel... where there's none; giant rocks with razor edges crouch like a sea monster with open wide jaws'" (Connell 8). The main setting for "The Most Dangerous Game" is a jungle/rainforest. This is important because the whole story centers on hunting and how animals and humans feel during the natural hunt. There is a slew of similarities like the problem of isolation that is touched in disparate ways. But contradicting the likenesses, the setting between these two excerpts have distinct differences that affect the story

For example, they both show fear. In The Most Dangerous Game, Rainsford was on an island with General Zaroff where he was going to be hunted for his life. "Even so, I rather think they understand one thing—fear. The fear of pain and the fear of death". This quote from the book is important because Rainsford was afraid of dying in the game. In High Noon, Will Kane was a character who did what he believed him but was also scared at the same time. Before he was going to battle Frank Mitchell, he started to write up his will. '"Kane's hand—as it writes: "Last Will and Testament" As he crosses his last "T" he pauses. In the silence, the loud ticking of the clock can be heard". The last part of the quote was important, this symbolizes that time is running out before he meets his death. Another way they are both similar is that they are both being hunted down. Frank Mitchell, the bad guy, promised that he will find and kill Kane when he gets out of prison. When he eventually does get out of prison, he comes back to town to kill him. The problem that Kane faces is that the only way to get away from Frank is the noon train, but Frank is riding that train to come get him so technically Kane is trapped. In The Most Dangerous Game, Rainsford plays a game with the general where he is being hunted down and eventually killed. In the game there is a limit to where you can go and if you pass that limit, you die. So again, Rainsford is trapped and doesn't have anywhere to go. They are both alone in each book. Kane goes around town to ask people to join his group and help him fight Frank Mitchell and his gang. No one wants to help him and everyone closes their windows and doors. At the end, Kane is utterly alone. Rainsford is all alone in the jungle by himself as has no one to help him. The last reason they are both similar is that they fight for what's right. Kane could have easily backed out and just died

The Most Dangerous Game never hesitated to state it up straight, both by the protagonist and the antagonist, which really goes to show how strongly it prevails in the story. "The world is made up of two classes, the hunters and the huntees." Rainsford didn't seem to have any reservations about this statement, however it does appear to be given the chance to change later on in the story. "Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong, and, if needs be, taken by the strong." Zaroff rewords Rainsford's sentiments, however Rainsford disagrees on the grounds that he applies it to human lives. The point is you could show this story to your friends and watch as they either question the value of human life or the strength of who we consider the hunters in our world. The values of High Noon could be boiled down to fragile masculinity and pride, but we could give it the benefit of the doubt. Throughout the story Will Kane is constantly left for dead by the people he considered his friends, because they're all flaky bastards. When Kane states that he could get help from the people in town, even the previous deputy says it will not be so. "I think my intuition tells me otherwise." And he is right in the end. Even the church-goers refuse to help. "I think you ought to go while there's still time." And you see how many people Kane asks. If they had all agreed, Kane wouldn't have had so much trouble with Frank Miller. The main moral, if anyone cares to look deeper than need be by an average audience, is that when you really need help, people will tell you to screw yourself. I think all audiences can agree on the positivity of these themes, though they do present themselves very

In both stories the plot is kinda similar and kinda different. In “The Most Dangerous Game” the plot is that Rainsford swims to a isolated island after falling off the boat and meets General Zaroff. After meeting, and staying with General Zaroff, Rainsford has to survive 3 days from General Zaroff, because General Zaroff wants to kill Rainsford. “I’ll cheerfully admit myself defeated if I don’t find you by midnight of the third day” (225). In High Noon the plot is that Frank Miller is coming back to kill Will Kane, and Will Kane has to fight to survive. Kane manages to kill Frank Miller and survive. “ I sent a man up five years ago from Meyer. He was supposed to be hanged, but up north they command it to life. Now he’s free-I don’t know now. Anyway, it looks like he’s coming back” (225). Now the plot of the two stories is similar and different because not stories, the main characters have to survive against someone who wants to kill them. And it is also different because their is different meaning behind why Rainsford and Kane want to be

Miller and Rainsford against Zaroff. Kane and Rainsford were isolated while being hunted. "If he does, and if we run, they'll just come after us" (Foreman 296). Frank Miller's gang would chase him down wherever he went, and he was all by himself. "The Cossack