General Zaroff Characteristics

He is another example that the quote, "You are most yourself when you're alone." does not apply to him. Throughout all of the story, he is shown as honorable, and cunning. All throughout the story, even when he could have died or killed another, Zaroff keeps his hunter prowess and honor. "Rainsford," called the general, "if you are within sound of my voice, as I suppose you are, let me congratulate you. Not many men know how to make a Malay mancatcher. Luckily for me I, too, have hunted in Malacca. You are proving interesting, Mr. Rainsford. I am going now to have my wound dressed; it's only a slight one. But I shall be back. I shall be back." this shows us that Zaroff, even in the face of death, will still honor the person trying to kill

General Zaroffs sense of cruelty is proven when he explains that he hunts people. In the story, General Zaroff states, “I wanted the ideal animal to hunt,…“So I said, `What are the attributes of an ideal quarry?' And the answer was, of course, `It must have courage, cunning, and, above all, it must be able to reason." (pg #7) Rainsford is quick to point out that no animal can reason but Zaroff replies, “My dear fellow," said the general, "there is one that can.” (pg #7) Zaroff is implying that he hunts

This trait is revealed throughout the middle and towards the ending of the story. The text states, “He had high cheekbones, a sharp-cut nose, a spare, dark face, the face of a man used to giving orders, the face of an aristocrat.”. This explains how Zaroff’s appearance may seem cruel, Usually, a man used to giving orders is used to being boss, so when they bark orders they may be cruel, and harsh in ways. The text also states, “But they are men, says Rainsford. Precisely, said the General… I hunt the scum of the Earth.” General Zaroff is exceedingly cruel by just what he says. The General hunts real men, and even worse than that, he counts them as scum. Clearly, towards the middle and ending of the story,the General truly shows how cruel a person can be. Hunting animals isn’t where Zaroff’s comfort zone is, he prefers real men, because they are a bit more “fun” to play the game

One of the characters in the story is Sanger Rainsford. Rainsford is a hunter who has written books about his different hunting trips. He doesn’t think that animals have feelings, and then, towards the end of the story instead of the hunter, he turns into the hunted. We also have Ivan; Ivan is from Russia, and he is basically one of General Zaroff’s henchman. Ivan looks like Hagrid from Harry Potter, but he is a lot scarier than Hagrid. He is deaf and dumb, and he helps General Zaroff kill people if they refuse to participate in the hunt. General Zaroff is a very strange man. Physically, he is a sleek and slim man. A quote from the story that describes what Zaroff physically looks like is, “Rainsford's first impression was that the man was singularly handsome; his second was that there was an original, almost bizarre quality about the general's face. He was a tall man past middle age, for his hair was a vivid white; but his thick eyebrows and pointed military mustache were as black as the night from which Rainsford had come. His eyes, too, were black and very bright. He had high cheekbones, a sharp cut nose, a spare, dark face--the face of a man used to giving orders, the face of an aristocrat” (5). This tells how General Zaroff physically looks; so he is kind of bizarre but in a good way. Believe it or not he gets even more bizarre as the story goes on. General Zaroff may be bizarre, but maybe not as weird as

One reason that I think that General Zaroff is a villain is that of his cruel actions against other people. General Zaroff tells Rainsford that he has the best animal to hunt and it “ supplies me with the most exciting hunting in the world” (Connell page 11). When Rainsford hears this, he thinks of an animal that cannot be found anywhere

Throughout this journal, Zaroff can be characterized as mysterious and evil. First off, Zaroff is mysterious. One way he is mysterious is that he knows Rainsford’s name and he read Rainsford’s hunting book. In the book it says, “I’ve read your book about hunting snow leopards in Tibet…” (Connell 3). This quote shows that Zaroff is interested in hunting dangerous animals and knows that Rainsford is good at hunting

In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game”, General Zaroff is characterized as a cold blooded, devious, and murderous man. Zaroff shows little remorse for human life as he does not care that he kills hundreds of sailors.When he is talking to Rainsford, he says this, “I hunt the scum of the earth.”(49)Rainsford is horrified by this, as most other humans would be. Zaroff does not seem to bother how he kills his victims, and he does not even give them a fair chance. Zaroff says multiple times throughout the story that he values his dogs more than the humans he kills. He treats them like livestock, training them and feeding them well, until eventually he makes them play his game, which is nothing more than an entertaining way to kill the lowest

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Furthermore, General Zaroff is often associated with the color black, indicating that he is a dangerous person. When his servant, Ivan, answers Rainsford’s knocks, Rainsford takes note of Ivan’s black beard and donned a black uniform. General Zaroff then approaches the duo, and Rainsford observes his dark face, including “his thick eyebrows and pointed military mustache [that] were as black as the night from which [he] had come. His eyes, too, were black and very bright” (Connell 8). Even the cigarettes the General smokes

Another quote that proves Zaroff shows more diligence is, “The general’s left eyelid fluttered down in a wink.” This describes how the general believes that the gods send him people to hunt. Like Rainsford, General Zaroff is also persistent in waiting to hunt humans. He never gave up on leering humans to the island, I bet even on days when it took forever. This is why I believe that General Zaroff shows off more diligence than Rainsford. Not only does he show effort, but he shows persistent and that is the meaning of

Zaroff is purely unconscious, and has no compassion or remorse for his actions. His demented mind forces him to believe that it is moral to hunt all living creatures, when in reality he is actually murdering a human soul. The general is sadistic as well as arrogant. He is mentally unstable, insane, and he denies the fact that he is committing something as bad as what he is doing. According to General Zaroff, hunting for him has been consumed by boredom and he no longer sees hunting as a challenge. Consequently, he chooses to hunt a certain “creature” with a higher mental stability of the creatures he has hunted before.(Connell 21) As Zaroff became comfortable with Rainsford, he

Connell first demonstrates the General’s proud heart on page seventy. There is a conversation between Rainsford and General Zaroff and Rainsford starts with the question, “But the animal, General Zaroff? Oh, it supplies me with the most exciting hunting in the world… But no animal can reason, … there is one that can. But you can’t mean - And why not?” The General is referring that he resulted into hunting humans. Earlier, he expresses how this sport was becoming tedious and needed something that can reason, which no animal can do, except humans; without reluctance, he turns to them to fulfill his personal needs. General Zaroff is a part of World War I before he returns to hunting. Because of his experiences in the war, he believes that it is acceptable to murder human beings out of pleasure, while Rainsford disagrees. Overall, General Zaroff is betraying his egotistic side by being willing to kill humans for his

Zaroff provides hints for Rainsford, “I had to invent a new animal to hunt” (16). He is hinting that he hunts humans, and it is making Rainsford uncomfortable. Tasso is pretending to be who he actually is and convince The Great Man that it’s just a game, and Zaroff isn’t giving Rainsford the whole story about who he is and assumably just a talented hunter of wild animals. Both of

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