Most Dangerous Game And High Noon Literary Analysis

High Noon is a classic movie that is considered one of the greatest movies of all time. On the other hand, The Most Dangerous Game, written by Richard Connell, is just another short story. The main character of High Noon is Will Kane, and Sanger Rainsford is of the other. Both of these people are fighting for survival, but they cannot get help in one way or another because they are alone figuratively and physically; the setting is also similar yet nothing alike. Although the setting for High Noon and The Most Dangerous Game are similar, other aspects of the stories are quite disparate.

High Noon, a critically acclaimed movie. "The Most Dangerous Game", an awarded short story. High Noon stars Will Kane, a sheriff who put a criminal in jail, and now is back for revenge on the noon train which is the only way in and out of the town. "The Most Dangerous Game" stars Rainsford, a hunter who gets stuck on a island who hunts men for sport, and is the next prey for the man. The stories might seem not different or similar to some people, but the setting, characters, and themes have both similarities and differences.

In the storyline of High Noon and The Most Dangerous Game, the two protagonists learn to feel fear when fighting the antagonists. Carl Foreman wrote the film, High Noon, it is based off a marshal who is retiring, has to fight to protect his town from criminals. The Most Dangerous Game written by Richard Connell, is about two experienced hunters who hunt one another to one's death. In the film, High Noon, and the book, The Most Dangerous Game, both have they're differences between their settings and conflicts, but they also have similarities between their two main characters. Will Kane and Sanger Rainsford share similar traits that affect both storylines.

Both High Noon and The Most Dangerous Game take place in an isolated area. Even though they literally take place differently, they are both isolated from their friends and family. High Noon is about a marshal who has to face a person who is going to kill him and has no one to help him survive. "Kane emerges from the church...then goes wearily on" (Foreman 317). This quote is from the camera's perspective and is showing that after Will Kane has asked the members in the church to come and help him, he was left alone and no one agreed to help him. He had to leave the church in shame since he wasn't helped when he is used to having people help him. The Most Dangerous Game is about a hunter who has to try to not be hunted and has no one to help him survive. "'Where there are pistol shots, there are men. Where there are men, there is food,' he thought" (Connell). This is showing us that Sanger Rainsford is all alone and is trying to survive. He is isolated from his peers and the only thing that he can think about is trying to get food. He had to use his skill in order to find a way to survive while being isolated. Both the story and the movie show how even when you are isolated, you can still

The story "The Most Dangerous Game" and the movie "High Noon" both are stories based off of isolation. The role of Will Kane is played by the breathtaking actor Gary Cooper. Will Kane is the marshal for the town of Hadleyville. Will plans to leave town with his wife, Amy but plans soon change after he learns Frank Miller is coming back to get revenge. In the story "The Most Dangerous Game" the main character of the story Sanger Rainsford falls off of his boat where he winds up on Ship Trap Island. On Ship Trap Island Sanger runs into General Zaroff. General Zaroff lives on the island where he hunts people. After having a disagreement with General Zaroff Sanger has to play a game in order to stay alive. In these two stories you will see with difference comes similarities.

The two stories, High Noon and The Most Dangerous Game, build up the protagonist Rainsford and Kane in different ways, and create similarities and differences in which these characters have. The differences impact the stories to make them different; however, they still end up being some what the same. As these stories progress, there are similarities that start to form. High Noon and The Most Dangerous Game both have common ideas that help create the stories but also share a handful of differences as well.

Human nature is not fully understood and may never be, but as what we know appears in movies and stories many similarities can be found between them. In “The Most Dangerous Game” and High Noon, the setting, protagonists, and plots show close relations.

One of the biggest differences in these stories would be the characters and their actions. In the Most Dangerous Game, Rainsford is a well-known big game hunter. Later in the story, he is being hunted by a general named Zaroff. Rainsford gives up hope, but he doesn’t give up on trying to

High Noon and “The Most Dangerous Game” are two very similar stories. Both are action-packed, exciting stories. They share many similarities throughout their story, but also share many differences. Kane is trying to fulfill his duty of being the marshal of his town, while trying to survive Frank Miller. On the other hand, Rainsford, is trying to survive another day in order to beat General Zaroff in his three-day “game”.

The major impacting difference in the stories is the settings. “‘The old charts call ‘Ship-Trap Island,’ Whitney replied” (Connell 211). In “The Most Dangerous Game” the setting is based around an island called the Ship-Trap Island.

One of smaller changes in the cinematic version of The Most Dangerous Game was the resolution. The resolution of the film is this stereotypical romance where no matter what happens, the man has to go for the girl, and that is exactly what takes place. It was when Rainsford has seemingly been shot when he falls into the water only to one's surprise that later he shows back up in order to fight Zaroff as the final battle and save the girl from his clutches. His attempt is successful and as they ride away on a boat, Zaroff falls into his own dogs securing his death and resolution of happily ever after. It is in the book, however where things get interesting.

The Most Dangerous Game is about its theme of corruption and its plot events, something that differs from the story and movie. The main difference is the ending and theme of the original versus the adaptation. In the short story, it is unknown whether Rainsford takes on the role of the general after killing him out of spite and lust for revenge or gets off the island. This enforces the theme of the fact that man is corrupted when they are given great power or an enticing offer for said power. The movie, however, changes this and has Rainsford escape the island with Eve, a girl who was in Zaroff’s captivity. This changes the ending to where Rainsford kills Zaroff out of defense and to save another survivor, thus making him be a moral person. These endings change Rainsford as a character from a hunter corrupted by the savagery of Zaroff to a bold defender of

In both stories, the innocent characters were fighting death at the hands of someone who found the idea of killing another human being to be a game. In “The Lottery” the game of death consumed an innocent life solely because a few individuals founded a tradition; and in “The Most Dangerous Game” the game of death consumed an innocent life solely because one person thought it was merely entertaining. Both authors portrayed the antagonist as friendly, warm and welcoming. In the Lottery, the antagonists were the families whom participated in the drawing of a name that lead to the stoning of another family member (which may or may not be their own family member). In “The Most Dangerous Game” the antagonist was a well-off general who opened his luxurious home to guests who have gone astray from their original destination. Death is the main theme of both short stories and both authors portrayed this dark and dreary idea as a game the characters are playing.

Though both stories have so many differences, they also share many similarities. Both stories, “The Sniper” and “The Most Dangerous Game”, have a dark, serious mood. This mood makes both stories more exciting and suspenseful. Both stories are about risks, which mean that deaths will happen in the story.

In both stories the theme is really obvious but they both have some similar parts of theme and they both have some parts that are different. In The Most Dangerous Game the theme is so cliche because it is Hunters Vs. The Hunted. In the beginning of the story Zaroff and Rainsford are as equals and they both are big-game hunters. In the Hunters In The Snow the theme revolves around Deception because there are three main characters in the Hunters in the Snow and they go on a hunting trip and before they can deceive anyone they would have to fool themselves before they could do so. In both stories they are already so similar because they both involve murder and hunting. In The Most Dangerous Game Zaroff was hunting people who came to Ship Trap Island and hunted them and was committing murder and in The Hunters in the Snow Tub shot Kenny and at the end of the story they took the wrong turn to the hospital and Frank and Tub let Kenny die. Frank and Tub would be suspects of Kenny’s murder.