Most Dangerous Game Vs The Cask Of Amontillado

What’s scarier? Learning that the murder previously put in jail is returning to your town, or that you’re trapped on an island where the only other people hunt men for sport? High Noon, written by Carl Foreman, is a film about a marshal who has to protect his town from a gang of criminals. “The Most Dangerous Game,” written by Richard Connell, is a story about two hunters, one who hunts animals, and one who hunts men. High Noon and “The Most Dangerous Game” are two very different stories, including differences between the themes; but there are similarities as well, including the setting and characters.

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.

“The Most Dangerous Game” is a very good story with a lot of suspense and foreshadowing. The story plot is about an experienced hunter, Rainsford, who falls off of a yacht in the middle of the Caribbean, and finds himself on a small island. He then goes to seek shelter and finds a mansion, where he meets another hunter named Zaroff who was tired of hunting because it wasn’t challenging enough for him. To resolve his issue, he decides to hunt something different, humans. Soon after, the two begin hunting each other. After many traps set, and shots fired, the hunt is finally over, with Rainsford coming out victorious.

Have you ever been hunted down by a psychopath war general, rabid pack of dogs, and a giant mute knouter named Ivan, and escaped? “The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell, is about a man named Rainsford who gets stranded on an island with an insane head honcho on a small, isolated island in the Caribbean sea. Behind every work of literature, are literary elements that make it successful. “The Most Dangerous Game” is successful due to descriptive imagery, suspenseful plot, and ability to get to the point.

Did you know that “The Most Dangerous Game” and “The Hunters In The Snow” could be similar in so many ways but have some differences in both stories? There are two main characters in “The Most Dangerous Game” and that is Rainsford and General Zaroff and in “The Hunter In The Snow” has three main characters and that is supposedly friends and that is Tub, Frank, and Kenny. In both stories there are similar times that the elements of the two stories could have similarities and differences. In both stories there are instances that involves hunting. In the stories there could be as each characters have problems with each other or individual. In the stories there are times when the author wants to get the point across and allow the readers to

In Richard Connell's short story, "The Most Dangerous Game';, the use of literary devices, found blended with other literary devices, gives the story an inner meaning. The blending of literary devices effectively expresses the intentions of Connell to present contrast between the antagonist and protagonist points of view. As a result, the reader can gain insight on the good and evil sides of the story to enhance the purpose of his interpretation. "The Most Dangerous Game'; by Richard Connell presents literary devices such as foreshadowing, setting, and irony which reveal the underlying meaning of the story.

     The most dangerous game began as a sport for one man. His name is Sanger Rainsford. In Richard Connell’s story “The Most Dangerous Game,” Sanger Rainsford, an avid hunter, is lost at sea, stranded on “Ship-Trap” Island-every sailor’s worst nightmare. Rainsford goes through a series of events that prove to be life-altering. Even though Sanger Rainsford went through many trials and tribulations, he never lost his intelligence, composure, or his bravery.

“The Most Dangerous Game” and “The Cask of Amontillado” are two stories that take your mind through the darkest moments a human can experience. Darkness, fear, and survival, these are just a few things a man can experience on a island with an atrocious psychopath, Zaroff. Rainsford, a famous hunter washes up on the enigmatic island with Zaroff for three nights. Now imagine you’re deep in the streets of Italy, a carnival makes the perfect distraction to lead away victims of murder. Montresor, the ‘friend’ of Fortunato, leads the drunken man below the surface into the bony Catacombs.

I. There happen to be different settings in both of the short stories but both of the settings adapt well with their plots.

High Noon and The Most Dangerous Game are exciting stories that will keep you on the edge of your seat. These stories are about a main character that almost loses their life facing a mighty enemy. The stories are filled with irony for example in “High Noon” the sheriff that usually hunts down criminals is now hiding from them, or how in “The Most Dangerous Game” Rainsford, the hunter, is now being hunted down like an animal. Although the main characters in High Noon and The Most Dangerous Game have many similarities there are also many differences especially in the battles they had to fight.

Every soul has committed an act of evil, whether he or she likes it or not. For the protagonists of Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game" and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" their sins served as entertainment. Both characters exemplify the deviant traits of sadists. Montresor and General Zarof are pure evil; for they both deliberately and lucidly inflict pain upon others as leisure.

In this small yet terrifying story, “The Most Dangerous Game”, written by a genius named by Richard Connell, it dives into the feeling where a sport is taken a bit too far. A hunter named Rainsford fell off his yacht when he was going on his way to hunt in the Amazon, so he swam over to the nearest island, the haunted one. He met a fellow hunter, General Zaroff, who hunted humans for a challenge and the General challenged the Rainsford to a game to get off this island. Rainsford pent three sickening days running away from the General killed the General in the end, and went to sleep to wait for any sign of rescue.

Another example of how they are similar is the events in which things happened. In the pair of works, Rainsford, the main character, ends up in a catastrophe to which he has to swim to safety and that is how he finds the island. On the island is where he gets hunted by Zaroff, the main antagonist, who has become such a skilled hunter that he no longer finds challenges or interest in hunting animals so he resorts to humans. Without these specific events taking place, the story could change immensely. If Zaroff had not been shown the sport of hunting, he may never had become such a skilled hunter to which he would have not needed to hunt humans therefore Rainsford would not have been engaged in the hunt.

Can you imagine being hunted? The Most Dangerous Game was originally a story that then got turned into a movie. I will be comparing and contrasting the differences of initiating events, characterization, and plot between the story and the movie. This will show the differences of how directors can completely change the original story to fit what they think will be more interesting. For example, they may add characters or change the setting to create a different scenario.

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.