Emotions In Richard Connell's The Most 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.

People are blessed with the ability and sense to perceive things from another’s eyes, or in other words, from another’s point of view. The tragic part is we often don’t take the opportunity to use this gift. Many times we don’t take into consideration how others may feel until we are put into a similar situation. Rainsford's views on hunting are revealed in the early conversations with Whitney. "The best sport in the world," agreed Rainsford. "For the hunter," amended Whitney. "Not for the jaguar." "Don't talk rot, Whitney," said Rainsford. "You're a big game hunter, not a philosopher. Who cares how a jaguar feels?" "Perhaps the jaguar does," observed Whitney. “Bah! They have no understanding" "Even so, I rather think they understand one thing—fear. The fear of pain and the fear of death." Therefore, Rainsford hunts only for the sport and has no sympathy for the hunted.

Have you ever been hunted down by a psychopath war general, rabid pack of dogs, and a giant mute knouter named Ivan, and escaped? “The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell, is about a man named Rainsford who gets stranded on an island with an insane head honcho on a small, isolated island in the Caribbean sea. Behind every work of literature, are literary elements that make it successful. “The Most Dangerous Game” is successful due to descriptive imagery, suspenseful plot, and ability to get to the point.

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.

The short story “The Most Dangerous Game” written by Richard Connell, takes place on an island known to have a curious dread to many others. A big game hunter named Rainsford sits around on a yacht talking with one of his other fellow hunters named Whitney who describes how the hunt may only be best for the hunter in lines of feelings but, Rainsford has a different opinion on that matter. When Rainsford is left on the island, he goes through a series of events that leads to a peril of danger. Rainsford states “he had never slept in a better bed”(Connell 15 par. 2) after experiencing a journey that could’ve put his life in jeopardy. This gives the reader a sense Rainsford is projected as a dynamic character from his progression in thoughts

Thus through this experience he began learning about how the animals felt in his previous hunting experiences. During his battle royal fight with the general he had used his experience and knowledge of hunting to catch and kill the general. Consequently he was now violating his own golden rule, loosing his values of not killing humans. Through this action he went through a metamorphosis becoming the “brute”. This newfound outlook lead him learn about what it is like to be the one being hunted. After there continual exchange of mental torment Rainsford enters the main house to murder the general. Something is different though he doesn’t stop when the general said “you have won” he doesn’t care anymore, he just wants to kill him. We can see this when Rainsford says “I am still a beast at bay”. We can see that the use of the language technique of dramatic irony is empathetic towards this scene. The use of this technique shows us that he (who was the hunter of the beast) has now become the beast in the hunt. This emphasizes the idea that Rainsfords experiences of being hunted has changed him and shows how Connell was trying to express the idea that your experiences shape you, and how you learn from it will shape who you are. We can also see how Connells message about learning and experience is expressed through the use of the language technique of metaphor. We can see that this use of metaphor shows us how he has become a “beast”. Through this it

When one is hunting, do they ever stop to think about how it feels to be the prey? In Richard Connell’s short story, “The Most Dangerous Game”, the character Rainsford has a change of opinion and feelings to this very question. In the beginning of the story, Rainsford is on a ship with a colleague and expresses that he is only concerned about the feelings of himself as the hunter and not those of the “huntee”. Not long after falling off the ship and arriving to a nearby island is it that Rainsford experiences what it is like to be the huntee. Connell uses many transitions within in the story that leads the reader in suspense and encourages them to keep reading. The transitions are first when Rainsford falls off the ship and approaches the island, when allows him to come into his house and stay, and when the hunt results in the two going against each other.

Rainsford, from the beginning, reveals his arrogance to the readers. “This hot weather is making you soft, Whitney. Be a realist. The world is made up of two classes - the hunters and the huntees. Luckily, you and I are the hunters.” (Connell 63). The context is that Rainsford is speaking with Whitney and he believes that the animals have a sense of understanding and fear, but Rainsford does not. Rainsford is impudent towards his friend by criticizing his beliefs. He is moreover conceited when he places himself in the higher class of society. The protagonist is being insensitive to Whitney and to the living, fearful animals, commencing the separation from morality, shown throughout this short story. The antagonist, General Zaroff, numerously illustrates his hubristic personality.

Most people like to hunt animals, but humans? However in the short story, General Zaroff likes to hunt humans. The story is called “The Most Dangerous Game” was written by Richard Connell. One night when Rainsfords stayed outside smoking, and he heard some gunshots, looked around if he seen anything. When he looks straight for and fell over board.

Rhetorical devices used to persuade in "Most Dangerous Game" Through the lens of a gun, a cheetah can be seen strutting through the luscious, tall grass. Then the cheetah turns to a blur of yellow and brown, as it sprints through the plains of the Savannah approaching its prey. The cheetah is in pursuit travelling at the speed of sixty miles per hour; it is such a beautiful sight, a cheetahs keen body moving through the brush at its top speed.

In the beginning Sanger Rainsford is a adventurous big game hunter.Before he washed up on ship trap island he was very calm person. In every situation he was in he acted calmly. On the ship with whitney she asked him about animals having feelings.He said that animals have no understanding of what feelings are.Rainsford was implying to Whitney,why should they care about the animals that they kill, They are the hunted and him and her were the hunter's.In beginning or while he is on the ship you can tell that he really does not care about the feelings of others.

In Richard Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game,” the main character, Rainsford, develops from a ruthless and brutal attitude about hunting to a more sympathetic and understanding one due to the scarring experiences of being on the other end of the barrel. While on a hunting expedition to the dangerous Amazon Jungle, Rainsford, discusses with Whitney, his hunting partner, about whether or not animals, especially jaguars, have feelings. Although being a big-game hunter, Whitney suggests that their prey may have sentience, in which Rainsford retorts, “they’ve no understanding” and then goes about telling Whitney how “the world is made of two classes — the hunters and the huntees.” Whitney, being a foil character to portray Rainsford’s

Rainsford tells Whitney that jaguars don’t have feelings or fears or any emotions when they are being hunted (Connell 3). This scene shows that Rainsford does not care about animals or their feelings. He believes that they are mindless and emotionless.It also shows that he does not think of human beings as

Rainsford went to the room and got ready to go hunting. He dreaded what he was fixing to do. Rainsford loved hunting, but how could he hunt people. People had feelings and families. Maybe animals felt the same thing? Of course animals have fear and instinct, but can animals love and feel happiness? When a dog is happy or exited it wags its tail. The thing that made Rainsford even more concerned is a mother’s care for her puppies. If she didn’t have feelings the puppies would just die. She would just abandon them. Maybe he has been killing people after all.