Devices In The Most Dangerous Game By Richard Connell

Hunter vs. the hunted is one of the main points in Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game.” Sanger Rainsford swims to Ship-Trap Island after falling off the ship on which he was traveling. On the island, Rainsford finds food and lodging with its sole human inhabitants, General Zaroff and Ivan. Zaroff reveals that he intends to hunt Rainsford, since he finds hunting humans most exciting. Rainsford manages to out-smart Zaroff and is waiting in the General’s bedroom when he returns. The authors’ use of characters: Sanger Rainsford, General Zaroff, Whitney, and Ivan, setting: ship, jungle, and island, and symbolism: the island and jungle, help to develop the theme, one who hunts will someday become the hunted.

In order to feel satisfied, humans naturally find an activity to do when they encounter themselves no longer entertained. In the case of “The Most Dangerous Game,” written by Richard Connell, General Zaroff creates exactly what the titles states, the most dangerous game, a game of hunting the only animal that can reason: humans. This is quite ironic because Zaroff has all the wealth and power to do anything, but creates this game only to escape his boredom. Connell wrote “The Most Dangerous Game” with Rainsford as the main character, a role most typically associated with the archetypal hero. However, with an understanding of the story, readers question whether Rainsford really is the hero, his values of humans and animals, and the possibility of him becoming the villain, provoking readers to realize that the cycle of violence and oppression goes on even if believed to already be conquered.

Imagery and personification are some of the most powerful literary devices because they can bring the story to life and capture the reader's attention with just a few words. “The Most Dangerous Game” has both of these devices used effectively, and it makes the story better than most of its type. The author, Richard Connell, used imagery and personification in a way that connects with the reader very well, and makes the story a more enjoyable read, because it paints a clear picture of what is happening in the story.

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.

Presumption of one’s character, lifestyle, or troubles in life is taken from looking at that person and assuming you know all about them. In order to fully understand someone’s pain, you must endure it in their shoes. This is the theme for the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game,” written by Richard Connell. As Rainsford, the main character of the short story, tries to survive in the wild from a psychotic general who hunts humans as game, the reader sees his change in perspective on what it feels to be hunted. This demonstrates the theme of the short-story through the use of situational irony, man vs. man conflict, and internal conflict.

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.

After falling off the ship, Rainsford swam in the direction of where he heard three gunshots come from. The first thing he notices as he reaches the rocks was the large animal that had went in the underbrush and the blood stained on a patch of weeds. Rainsford then finds a cartridge and realizes that the animal had been shot with a twenty-two. He went on his way looking for something to show him the way to where the “men” he suspected to be on the island were. Just as he was hoping, he found prints of hunting boots. These small details showing how alert, intelligent, and descriptive he is says a lot about the character

In both stories, “The Destructors” by Graham Greene, and “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, the authors relate to every day, real life situations that we think we can't deal with. We have to remind ourselves that this walk in life will not always be easy, but going through situations, some good and not so good, with a positive attitude allows us to finish as true champions. In the two short stories, the setting of the story plays a vital role by acting as the foundation. In fact, the setting of a story gives us as readers the chance to read at our pace while trying to get the true meaning of the story.  In my essay, I will present the writer’s intentions of both stories by comparing and contrasting the setting of both stories.

In any story, there must be problems that leave the main character in a predicament. That is the case in the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell. There are three main types of conflicts. One conflict in man versus nature because even though Rainsford is a sailor, he is most hated by the sea. Another, conflict found in the story is man versus himself considering Rainsford must face the toughest challenge of all; himself. Most importantly, the last conflict is man versus man since Rainsford is forced to go head-to-head with General Zaroff. It is crucial that “The Most Dangerous Game” has these three main issues to make the story exciting.

Whenever people go to the movies or read a book, they long for an interesting story to be entertained by. Whether it is action filled or suspenseful, they want a stimulating plot that makes them feel good. In 1952, Carl Foreman wrote the screenplay for a movie called High Noon; a classic tale of when the hunter becomes the hunted. Then in 1924, Richard Connell wrote another classic, called "The Most Dangerous Game". Although both stories demonstrate similar examples of the setting and conflict, the main characters react very differently to the unusual situations they find themselves stuck in.

The yacht left Rainsford because they had no idea he fell off. As the yacht continued on its journey to Brazil its lights “became faint and ever-vanishing; then they were blotted out entirely by the night.”(Connell 21) as Rainsford floated in the water and watched. Rainsford fell off the boat and no one on the boat realized he had so, he became stranded. Zaroff's hounds would kill Rainsford if he tried to leave the house at night. Zaroff made sure his hounds “are let out at seven every night. If anyone should try to get in my house or out of it something extremely regrettable would occur to him”(Connell 29). The hounds had Rainsford trapped in the house, they would kill him if he tried to leave the house at night, preventing him from getting off the island. While Rainsford played the game he couldn’t get enough lead way to try to get away and escape. Even if Rainsford had managed to get far enough from Zaroff to develop a plan to escape the island the sea roaring “twenty feet below him the sea rumbled and hissed”(Connell 36) so swimming was excluded from the plan. The island was surrounded by the ocean and he had no way to get off the island, other than a boat. Rainsford was only the prey in a really big game of “survival of the fittest.” Rainsford felt as if “He was in a picture with a frame of water, and his operations, clearly, must take place within that frame.”(Connell 32). He had nowhere to go other than the island, he only had the island itself to take refuge and hide. Despite what Rainsford wishes there is no reasonable way to get off the island, which is uninhabited by game animals for Rainsford to hunt. Rainsford knows what it is like to be hunted, so he will take pity and mercy on the game animals he

n the story The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell, it is very hard to miss the odd behaviors of General zaroffboth before and after revealing his hunt for men. After revealing his intentions, zaroff acts as if his game is a normal part of his life and does not acknowledge his hunt as anything abnormal. However, these aspects of Zaroff's character does not necessarily mean he is guilty of his acts. General Zaroffis not guilty of murder because of his presumed insanity throughout the story and his lack of the perception of right and wrong,as well as a lack of empathy. In the story, Zaroff's personality is observed as a little more than strange, especially considering how open he is with Rainsford about his game. I am strong. Why should I

Richard Connell, in his short story “The Most Dangerous Game” shows that people can change depending on the situation, especially in a life or death situation. Connell shows this through his use of foreshadowing, setting and symbolism.

Richard Edward Connell was an American author, who was probably most famous for the short story “The Most Dangerous Game.” Connell started writing at the age of 10 covering baseball games for his father 's paper. By the age of sixteen he had become the editor of the Poughkeepsie News-Press. Connell was a very smart man who studied at Georgetown and Harvard.While at Harvard he was the editorial chairman. Connell 's writing style was usually action-adventure. Some of his works were probably inspired from his time working as a homicide journalist, and serving in World War I. By the time Connell passed away he had published over 300 short stories. Richard Connell was a very unique author from experiences he had through out his life, and so was the writing style that he portrayed.