Most Dangerous Game Character Analysis

It had been a week since Rainsford managed to kill the nefarious General Zaroff. The challenging part was almost over or so it seemed. There was not a clear way for Rainsford to escape. As days passed, Rainsford tried to escape. He tried making a boat from driftwood that he found, he tried swimming, he even tried sending a signal by using a flashlight. Rainsford had become so desperate that he even tried some ridiculous plans like trying to pole vault across the ocean. As a result, Rainsford ended up having huge gashes in his left leg ,which got infected, and he had to amputate it. As days turned into weeks, and weeks into months, Rainsford had lost hope and became bitter.

A survivor is someone who does anything to try not to die. One source was a short story titled “Most Dangerous Game’ by Richard Carroll, a story a about one man who trying survivor on Island who hunt humans. A survivor is someone who is selfish,lucky and brave.

When fear abounds within a man, this man becomes crazy. Rainsford fears death. Fear of death can be defined as the fear that causes an individual to be scared of dying. People filled with fear start to evolve into crazy people. Rainsford, an experienced hunter, knows this; thus, at the beginning of the hunt he continuously says, “I must keep my nerve. I must keep my nerve.” (Connell 165) Rainsford’s knowledge aids him in keeping his nerve and not going as mad as other men hunted before him. If Rainsford goes crazy, he will be instantly killed by General Zaroff; however, he keeps his nerve and kills Zaroff at the end

Rainsford’s skill of resourcefulness is demonstrated when he uses his resources in the beginning of the hunt. As the hunt begins Rainsford is out in the jungle figuring out a way to create distance between him and General Zaroff. Rainsford does this by creating a confusing trail for Zaroff to follow, Rainsford says, “‘I’ll give him a trail to follow’” as he creates “a series of intricate loops; he doubled on his trail again and again” (Connell 31). One way of being resourceful is using one’s surrounding for his/her benefit, which is shown in this

Have you ever been hunted in your lifetime before ? In “the most dangerous Game “ by Richard connell two men were hunting each other. Rainsford demonstrates that he is adventurous,smart, and sneaky.

After jumping into the water, Rainsford entered the castle where he surprised Zaroff; “Rainsford! How in God’s name did you get in here?”(Connell 16). Being caught off guard left Zaroff exposed. This, ultimately lead to his demise. After Rainsford and Zaroff fight, Rainsford wins, as seen from the quote “He had never slept in a better bed, Rainsford decided,”(Connell 16). By using fear to initially scare Zaroff, Rainsford was able to displace Zaroff mentally. In the end, this led to Rainsford to win the fight and sleeping in a nice, comfy

Although, the only way Zaroff allowed was to take part in his game or get turned over to Ivan. Rainsford prepares for the hunt and on the following day they set out into the jungle. During the hunt, he makes many traps such as false trails, a Malayan mancatcher, a covered pit of wooden stakes, and a knife tied to a sapling. Throughout the hunt, Rainsford becomes creative of using his resources and figures out how to trick the mind of others. For the trail, Zaroff found Rainsford pretty quickly but wanted to enjoy the hunt so he lets him go. The Malay mancatcher only injures Zaroff’s shoulder but usually kills, which made the hunt harder. The wooden stakes trap kills one of Zaroff's best dogs, impressing Zaroff of Rainsford’s skills but makes sure he needs to improve ending Rainsford because that dog was really important to him. The knife tied to the sapling kills Ivan however, Zaroff’s has little to no care of losing his guard rather than losing his best hunting tool. During the hunt, Rainsford and Zaroff trade places of who is the hunter and the huntees. Rainsford fully experiences the fear of being hunted when being held at the edge of the cliff by dogs. He pants ”Nerve, nerve, nerve” ( Connell 14 par. 7) struggling trying not to get killed. Rainsford finally jumps off the cliff and swims around the island to get back to the chateau because it was quicker than walking through. When Zaroff

In the short story by Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game, Sanger Rainsford finds himself in a sticky situation when he meets General Zaroff. General Zaroff is a very talented hunter and had become tired of hunting the same old animals as always, they bored him as he explained in the story, he had now moved on to the best prey he could find, a prey that could fight and think for themselves, and that prey was humans. Rainsford is taken aback by this confession and is alarmed, he asks Zaroff to let him go, but Zaroff has other plans. In order for Rainsford to get off the island alive he must survive three full days on the island while being hunted by General Zaroff. Rainsford agrees, knowing that if declines this choice his life would have a much more unpleasant future. And so the the hunt began, but Rainsford had some tricks up his sleeve.

Once Rainsford realized he was being hunted by Zaroff he had to collect his thoughts and draw on his previously learned knowledge on how he could outsmart or survive Zaroff. His first attempt was climbing high up in a tree and resting and finding shelter there, he ended up staying there overnight even though he didn’t get much sleep throughout the night. “He knew it would be insane to blunder on through the dark, even if he had the strength.” ( Connell 24). According to this in-text citation, this proves that he

After the hunter became the hunted, he experienced the fear that the victim goes through and what it feels. While Zaroff was the predator, Rainsford “was the mouse” in this game (Connell 33). He was the small one in the food chain, the one being hunted and eventually killed. Before the Most Dangerous game, all that Rainsford needed from the animal was the hunt. He admitted that humans were stronger, and supposedly, have a right to kill animals, he’d “rather think they understood one thing-fear...fear of pain and fear of death” (Connell pg#). Therefore how does he feel now when he went through “the fear of death”? Although Rainsford is strong and he won the game, the terror he experienced is traced inside of him and can’t be covered even by the joy of victory; he will always have a flashback coming as if somebody was following him anywhere he goes.

            The second part to this is that supposedly, when Rainsford is being hunted by Zaroff, he empathizes with animals and gains respect for them.  This is absurd.  Rainsford relates to his situation as still being a hunter, not as being an animal.  For example, his initial strategy is “I’ll give him a trail to follow,” muttered Rainsford, [...] He executed a series of intricate loops; he doubled on his trail again and again, recalling the lore of the fox hunt, and all the dodges of the fox.  Rainsford used his mind, not his instinct, to guide him.  Not only is this the

In the short story Rainsford dodges Zaroff all three nights, but stays in the jungle. On the very last night Rainsford jumps off the cliff into the ocean, Then Rainsford swam back to the ocean to kill Zaroff and lastly he succeeded; But in the movie; Rainsford headed to the dangerous swamp with Eve to lose Zaroff and gain time. Then Rainsford and Eve head to the waterfall while Zaroff was unexpectedly standing there. Zaroff took a shot at Rainsford and Rainsford down the waterfall into the water, Zaroff and Eve went back to the castle feeling undefeated, But later Rainsford came in out of nowhere and killed Zaroff leading to the intriguing

Rainsford was a skilled hunter and want to live any way so he made a trap for the general which was disturbed by his hounds at first. He attempted to build it again but this time, he himself became its victim and later succeeded in escaping from that. General Zaroff thought that his prey was dead but later found him in his house standing behind the window curtains. This shows the surprised ending of the story that the prey is still alive this shows that Rainsford has won the game as Zaroff congratulates him on having him in his room, “I congratulate you," he said. "You have won the game." He was probably honoring him and showing him the way to move out safely from the Island but the past three days have made Zaroffs’ prey i.e. Rainsford more hardened who may possibly want to take the revenge from his killer which is depicted from his words "I am still a beast at bay." This means his life never changed and the cruel hunt continues although he had learned the lesson that how the prey feels when hunter is behind it to kill. The ending line of the story further adds in his firm

But that Zaroff is good. Rainsford uses all of his old hunter’s tricks and then finally just uses his wits: he jumps into the ocean. Resolution: Well, turns out Rainsford survived his leap into the sea, and he’s mad. Real mad. So he does what any good vengeful hunter does especially one who doesn’t believe in killing people he kills

“He shook his head several times, as if he were puzzled… The general's eyes had left the ground and were traveling inch by inch up the tree. Rainsford froze there, every muscle tensed for a sprin. But the sharp eyes of the hunter stopped before they reached the limb where Rainsford lay; a smile spread over his brown face (16).” In this quote it shows that Zaroff knew that Rainsford was up in the tree but he was trying to toy with him.