Most Dangerous Game Compare And Contrast

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.

Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game" is a very exciting story of a manhunt. This story made me think about the morality of hunting: Humans are the cleverest creatures on earth, but does it give them a license to kill the other animals and even human beings weaker than themselves? I give below a short summary of the story to set the scene and then I will explore the ethics involved in hunting as a sport. "The Most Dangerous Game" presents the story of a hunter, General Zaroff, who finds hunting human beings as the most dangerous and fascinating sport.

The Most Dangerous Game was a story made by Richard Connell in 1924, and had a movie adaptation in 1932. The short story tells about a man stranded on an island by the name of Rainsford. He finds Zaroff, a general with a great lust for hunting, who hunts people and Rainsford himself going to be hunted. He then attempts to outwit the general and ends up possibly taking his place. The film tries to encapsulate the excitement and story of the original version with more enticing visual effects and mostly succeeds. Although the film shares many themes and characteristics as the story, it has also changed many key factors.

Another way Zaroff is mysterious is that he lives in a mansion on a deserted island with a giant. The text says, “...he saw to his great astonishment that all the lights were in one enormous building…” (Connell 3). It says Rainsford was astonished because he saw a random and huge building in the middle of nowhere. A third way Zaroff is mysterious is that large, fast, and strong animals that normal people think are scary are not scary to him. We know this because in the text it says, “No thrill left in tigers, no real danger” (Connell 5). Zaroff does not believe that tigers, very powerful animals, are a threat to him. Next, Zaroff is evil. The first way he is evil is that he traps sailors and people on boats onto his thought-to-be-deserted island. The book says, “...giant rocks with razor edges crouch like a sea monster with wide-open jaws” (Connell 7). The general traps them to go into the rocks and have their boat torn apart, and then they are stranded on the island. One other way Zaroff is evil is that he hunts humans on his island for his own enjoyment. It says in the text, "Civilized? And you shoot down men?" (Connell 7). Zaroff does not believe that it is crazy to murder people, and this makes Rainsford

The first big difference, and one of the most obvious happened to be the shipwreck that happened in the movie, while in the story Rainsford fell off the yacht and no one noticed. The next major difference is the fact that Rainsford met the other victims of shipwreck incidents and became close to the girl, Eve, who also was living in the mansion. Many other details of the story were altered since the female part was written in, the most obvious being that she went with Rainsford when he was hunting against Zaroff. Once they were out in the jungle, they started building the man catcher instead of hiding in the tree first. Their next attempt to stop Zaroff was also different than in the book, because Rainsford didn’t have to dig a hole; they just used one that was already there. Towards the end Rainsford walks into the mansion while Zaroff is playing piano, and once they fight and Rainsford wins, he leaves with Eve instead of staying and sleeping in Zaroff’s

General Zaroff is clearly not under control with his hunting habits. General Zaroff creates for himself, a dangerous hunting game. More dangerous than all the rest, an animal can reason and feel.This animal is a human. The general has gone over the edge. By following his instincts and making his desires reality, general Zaroff now has access to this dangerous game. He hunts and kills them with a pistol, disregards their feelings, and treats them like animals. Some people, such as Rainsford, have decided that obeying the law and sticking to the principles is better than following nature. Rainsford says,“Thank you, I'm a hunter not a murderer.” Rainsford chooses to be civil and lawful. Rainsford quite obviously has more control over his actions than the general. The general gives into his dark side and gives into his guilty desire to hunt animal that has reason, courage, and cunningness. Rainsford chooses not to because he knows wrong from right. But perhaps, when dealing with your human nature you must succumb to your darkest

General Zaroff is similar to Rainsford because they are both intelligent, and Zaroff shows this in the story because of his up-bringing and past experiences. This is seen in the story when it says “I, luckily, have invested in American Securities, so I shall never have to open a Tea room in Monte Carlo, or drive a taxi in Paris.” (Connel 48) This proves Zaroff is intelligent because he foresaw the downfall of the Russian economy, and heavily invested in said American Securities. However, Zaroff is different than Rainsford because he is powerful, which he shows when he explains his quarry to Rainsford. An example of this is seen in the story, which states “To date, I have not lost” … “The most elementary sort of problem” (Connel 50.)This proves Zaroff is powerful, because he fears nothing during the hunt. If anything, he thinks it gets quite boring. Zaroff is also different since he can be described as serious, because of his history with the hunt. In the text, this shown when it says “Hunting was beginning to get boring! And hunting, remember had been my life. I have heard that in America, business men often go to pieces…” (Connel ?) This proves Zaroff is about the hunt because it has sparked a new, welcoming,

Isolation is very hard to overcome and defeat. "The Most Dangerous Game" starts off with the main character, Rainsford, falling off a boat. He swims to a random island and luckily gets welcomed in by the owner of the house. The owner invites him for dinner and as they eat they talk about hunting animals across the world. The owner of the house, Zaroff, to Rainsford surprise, hunts human instead of animals because he is too good at hunting animals. He asked Rainsford to hunt humans with him but Rainsford says no. Now Zaroff wants to hunt Rainsford so he does. Will Kane is the main character in High Noon. He is the marshal of the town and he carries the lode of responsibility on his back. He sentenced an enemy to jail, but now that enemy has come back will his crew to kill Will Kane. In both High Noon and "The Most Dangerous Game" there are similarities and differences in the theme, main characters, and setting.

And I will be comparing the movie to the story and the story to the movie.

This shows that Zaroff is not giving up on trying to find Rainsford and Eve. Another trap that is different is the Burmese Tiger Pit. In the story, Rainsford digs a hole in the ground that is so deep it reaches his shoulders and plants sharp stakes in the bottom. Then, he covers the hole with a rough woven carpet of weeds and hides behind a tree. Zaroff does not fall into the hole, but one of his best dogs does. In contrast, Rainsford and Eve find an existing hole and cover it with leaves and grass in the film. General Zaroff sees the hole and simply hops over it. Zaroff is also a hunter, so he knows all the traps there are and easily sees the hole with no trouble. Zaroff also does not have a dog with him to fall in the hole like in the story. There is also a difference with the construction of the Uganda Knife Trick. The story describes how Rainsford creates the knife trick as: “He caught hold of a springy young sapling and to it he fastened his hunting knife with the blade pointing down the trail; with a bit of wild grapevine he tied back the sapling” on page eighty-two, that is completely different from the

It starts with Rainsford throwing himself into the water within the jagged coastline making one wonder if he had in fact survived. Rainsford indeed did survive his record breaking dive only to come back, sneaking into Zaroff’s room to hide. He waits until Zaroff arrives to then kill him. This is where the resolution really changes because in the movie, it has this happy ever after ending to it but while in the short story, it never says he left the island, or if he intended to leave. Richard Connell, the author of the story, did this for a reason, and that exact reason is to leave the reader to think about their own ending, about what they believe Rainsford would do.

The movie ended with Count Zaroff shooting an arrow at Reinsford and Eve as they are escaping from the island on a boat. Fortunately though Count Zaroff fall to his death before being able to shoot. On the contrary, in the short story version, at the end of the game General Zaroff states "Splendid! One of us is to furnish a repast for the hounds. The other will sleep in this very excellent bed. On guard, Rainsford." After Reinsford murders General Zaroff he then makes the remark “He had never slept in a better bed” proving that Reinsford had killed General

The opening few paragraphs heavily discuss the island on which Zaroff lives. Its deadly nature is endlessly referenced in and out of conversations. Rainsford and his friend Whitney foreshadow from the very start, when they call it “Ship-Trap” and remark that “sailors have a curious dread of the place,”creating a sinister aura and showing that something may be transpiring on the island. (Connell 1) The pair also talk about whether or not an animal is able to reason. Rainsford shows little regard for the

The Most Dangerous Game was a very intriguing story that held breathtaking and exhilarating moments. The leading character, Rainsford, found land after his shipwreck and was deceived by the inhumane hunter, General Zaroff. After involuntarily being placed in a game where Zaroff hunted innocent humans for fun, Rainsford struggled to withstand a fate of murder. Luckily, he was the first to fully escape the wilderness with his sidekick, Eve. Audiences of this film have truly witnessed hunting through the eyes of the prey alongside this main character.

The island and overall Zaroff’s house all kinda look too good to be true and with a bad feeling in the air. Rainsford falls off a boat and swimming to the nearest island he meets its only inhabitants Zaroff and his with fear, then Zaroff puts him in a brief period of comfort before he is told that Zaroff hunts humans, as animals are no longer fun to hunt. Zaroff, when Rainsford asks to leave says he can only leave if in the jungle part of the island he can survive three days while Zaroff is hunting