Compare And Contrast Rainsford And General Zaroff

A man hunting humans because he is bored with hunting animals! On Ship-Trap Island humans are being hunted by another human. General Zaroff is one of the main characters in “The Most Dangerous Game” written by Richard Connell. Zaroff encounters a surprise when he notices that Rainsford has appeared on his island. General Zaroff is a self-centered, psychotic and cruel man which ends up leading to his death.

How would it feel to be given food and clothes, thrown in a jungle and told you have three days to try and survive? Not only that but what if two men and a dozen dogs were trying to hunt you down at the same time? In the story, The Most Dangerous Game, the author portrays a sense of cruelty and arrogance through General Zaroff. Zaroff hunts humans for fun, is very arrogant about himself and sends innocent humans into a jungle to be 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.

In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” the author, Richard Connell, does an outstanding job of portraying the bizarre adventure of an insane, however experienced hunter, General Zaroff. The protagonist, Rainsford, another experienced hunter from New York City, appears on General Zaroff’s island, explores, and eventually encounters with Zaroff. They introduce themselves, settle down, and begin to talk. During the talk with the general, Rainsford soon learns that the General was not only a hunter; but a murderer as well. Zaroff has lured and ceased many sailors to his island to play a game. Although, they did not hunt with the General, the General hunted them! Zaroff claimed that hunting “had become too easy”, therefore, hunting began

The Book the most Dangerous Game is about Rainsford who is a hunter that got stranded on an island. He looks around the Island in search of other people so he can get food and a place to sleep for the night. While searching he is able to find a manor of sorts that has General Zaroff, a man who says to him that the only way to escape the island is to beat him in a hunt. What kind of characters are Rainsford and General Zaroff though? Both General Zaroff and Rainsford are similar in a few ways but they are both very different kinds of characters.

However, there is another motif that recurs in the “Most Dangerous Game” that deals with the elements of fear since fear has been mentioned throughout the entire story to describe what Rainsford feels. This “fear” motif can be used to describe how we, as humans, are afraid of something that might happen in the future or how we are frightened about things that may chase after us and endanger us. For instance, in the story, it describe the fear in Rainsford by stating, “The Cossack was the cat; he was the mouse. then it was that Rainsford knew the full meaning of terror.” This quote shows how Rainsford was afraid of General Zaroff chasing after him or scared of being hunted by him, which is similar to how we are afraid of being chased by our

In the short story” The Most Dangerous Game,” Rainsford was justified in killing General Zaroff. Rainsford and Zaroff are hunters who came upon ShipTrap island the two had different aspects of hunting zaroff lost interested in killing animals and thought of another hunting activity to do he called it The Most Dangerous Game what he does is hunt humans and one day he challenged Rainsford to the hunting challenge either be hunt and killed or stay alive, so Rainsford had to kill him. Murder is the unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought, Whoever is guilty of murder in the first degree shall be punished by death or by imprisonment for life; Whoever is guilty of murder in the second degree, shall be imprisoned for any

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

“ Instinct is no match for reason” This is true according to general Zaroff, but does the author of the story agree? Yes, the author of “ The Most Dangerous Game” believes that reason is no match for instinct. Throughout the story he gives examples of how reason has out smarted instinct. Reason is the explanation or justification of a certain action or event;the reason is not affected by force of habit. It is a process of very analytical thinking. Instinct, instinct is action woven into your mind for long periods of time; it is a second nature for you. For example a professional basketball player following through after your shot, they do not have to think about what they are doing they just do it. Instinct is done by a force of habit, you do not think of instinct; it just comes naturally.

In, the short story, “The most Dangerous Game”, Rainsford kills General Zaroff. Some readers believe Rainsford has the right to eliminate Zaroff. Others believe that no human being should be killed under no circumstance but most people believe that Rainsford had a right to kill Zaroff because Zaroff killed many people in the past and tried to kill Rainsford in the process when Rainsford washed up onto shipwreck island and hunted him down for two ish daies which zaroff calls his murder his dangerous game. For instance“That would be barbarous. I treat these visitors with every consideration. They got plenty of good food and exercise. They get into splendid physical condition” (Connell 5). After all, this quotation means That general Zaroff is

Dwight Lyman Moody once said, " character is what you are in the dark," to me that means that when someone is in the dark and they start to become afraid. The reaction to their fear reveals the type of person they are. In the Short story "The Most Dangerous Game," Richard Connell shows that Rainsford reveals his character when he is in the "dark" being hunted by the General. His reaction or his instinct to this internal conflict is to reveal is hunter self and turn the hunter into the hunted.

In today’s world danger is at every footstep and knowing some self-defense skills can come in handy. In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game”, by Richard Connell, Sanger Rainsford falls off a yacht and swims to a mysterious island. On the island, Rainsford encounters a strange hunter, General Zaroff, who hunts human beings. Rainsford seems to be the hunter’s next target. General Zaroff and Rainsford play the most dangerous game in which Rainsford punishes the general for his crimes. Rainsford’s actions can be classified as self-defense. By killing Ivan, the security guard, and the general, he proves that he does not want to die and the general was a criminal.

Any sane person would choose to say leave the island and live their life normally, including Rainsford. Rainsford would not want to repeat the gruesome times him and others went through. First of all Rainsford would not want to have more people suffer in the same way he

In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell, Sanger Rainsford, an experienced hunter, falls overboard from a ship heading to Rio to hunt jaguars with his friend and hunting partner Whitney. He swims to an island nearby called Ship-Trap Island. While there, he meets General Zaroff, an avid hunter who has grown bored of hunting animals, so he begins playing a game where he captures then hunts humans. Rainsford and Zaroff have many differences in their opinions and personalities that cause them to become enemies in Zaroff’s game, where the two fight to the death. Although they each believe the world is made of two classes, they have different opinions of who comprises those classes and where each fits in. Rainsford believes