Rainsford Kills General Zaroff In The Most Dangerous Game

In “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, General Zaroff is shown as a murderous, uncaring, and creepy. Zaroff is shown to be murderous in the story when he tells Rainsford that he kills people for fun. “I hunt the scum of the earth–sailors from tramp ships–lascars, blacks, Chinese, whites, mongrels” (Connell 78). This quotes shows that Zaroff is murderous because he created his own game to kill people. During the story Zaroff is also uncaring. He shows that he is uncaring when he says it gives him pleasure to watch men die. “That is why I use them. It gives me pleasure” (Connell 70). Zaroff shows that he is uncaring during this scene because he does not care about how people he kills feel. Lastly, Zaroff is also creepy in the story.

Zaroff is purely unconscious, and has no compassion or remorse for his actions. His demented mind forces him to believe that it is moral to hunt all living creatures, when in reality he is actually murdering a human soul. The general is sadistic as well as arrogant. He is mentally unstable, insane, and he denies the fact that he is committing something as bad as what he is doing. According to General Zaroff, hunting for him has been consumed by boredom and he no longer sees hunting as a challenge. Consequently, he chooses to hunt a certain “creature” with a higher mental stability of the creatures he has hunted before.(Connell 21) As Zaroff became comfortable with Rainsford, he

Humans have been hunting for over 1.8 million years. Early humans were omnivores and hunted large animals. Not much has changed, as we still hunt today. In this story, it is a whole different game though...they hunt human beings. A main character, General Zaroff, is one of those people that hunts humans. He hunts Rainsford the other main character and is killed. The General’s place is taken by Rainsford. Rainsford becomes the new general of Ship Trap island. There are many theories to explain why this is true like he is more violent throughout the story and he is very similar to General Zaroff.

In The Most Dangerous Game, Rainsford, who is a hunter, lands on an island where General Zaroff lives. Zaroff has become bored with hunting animals and now lures humans to his island to hunt and kill; but even hunting humans has become too easy for him. Zaroff is a very skillful hunter and he has access to guns, dogs and help from a man named Ivan. He promises to let Rainsford free though, if he can survive three days. Rainsford, being the skillful hunter he is, is able to set traps and survive up until the last day when the dogs corner him and he jumps off the cliff into the rocky water below. What Zaroff doesn’t know is that Rainsford is a great swimmer and surprises him by hiding behind his curtains; Zaroff then challenges him to a fight in which Rainsford wins. This

General Zaroff is killed by Rainsford. Zaroff was killed by Rainsford because Zaroff had killed people for fun. Since General Zaroff did killed humans, karma came back around and he was killed. When Zaroff was hunting for Rainsford, Rainsford sets up a trap and it kills Ivan, Zaroff’s only friend. General Zaroff has killed humans that have their own friends and family. Ivan was taken away from General Zaroff as a sign of karma. While Zaroff is looking to kill Rainsford, Zaroff doesn’t know that Rainsford had a trap set up to kill Zaroff. When General Zaroff realized that he had been set up for a trap, he quickly moved out of the way. Even though Zaroff moved out of the way, the trap still hurt his shoulder. Zaroff had hurt other people during the past games that he had played, so he got hurt playing the game. General Zaroff has learned that what goes around, comes

Now I understand that the General killed for sport, but, Rainford oversteps his bounds as a person to kill. He is forced to play this “game” of hunting. Rainford tries to get out of killing by asking, ‘"Suppose he refuses to be hunted?" "Oh," said the general, "I give him his option, of course. He need not play that game if he doesn't wish to. If he does not wish to hunt, I turn him over to Ivan…”’ (Connell 9) Later on page eleven, he directly tells Zaroff what he is doing is wrong and he will stop it. ‘“Of course you, in turn, must agree to say nothing of your visit here." "I'll agree to nothing of the kind," said Rainsford.’ (Connell 11) Though Rainford is saving innocent lives by killing the General, what Rainford is doing is wrong. The General even said, "Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong, and, if needs be, taken by the strong. The weak of the world were put here to give the strong pleasure. I am strong. Why should I not use my gift? If I wish to hunt, why should I not? I hunt the scum of the earth: sailors from tramp ships--lassars, blacks, Chinese, whites, mongrels..." (Connell 8) Is doing something wrong for the right reasons does not mean that it is not wrong? Rainford murders Zaroff without any attack from the general. ‘“The

Rainsford was justified in killing General Zaroff. For instance General Zaroff said “Your brain against mine, Your woodcraft against mine.” (Connell 6). This shows that General Zaroff gives right to rainsford to try and outsmart him and try to win by surviving. If rainsford outsmarts him then he will get the victory or he can do what Zaroff wanted to do to him which was kill him. Also Rainsford disagreed when Zaroff told him about the hunting game. “No,General,”he said “I will not hunt.” Then Zaroff basically said he had to or ivan will kill him.(Connell 9).This quote means that Rainsford did not like the idea that he had to stay in a jungle and

Rainsford was justified for killing General Zaroff because what General Zaroff did to Rainsford and the previous sailors wasn't right. When Rainsford and General Zaroff were talking Rainsford told General Zaroff “civilized? And you shoot down men”(connell 3) this quote means that General Zaroff has hunted other sailors before.

When my parents were kids,cell phones were unheard of. My generation,on the other hand,cant live without them.General Zaroff and Rainsford,the two main characters in the story,both cant live without hunting.Zaroff says he has hunted every animal,so he creates his own most dangerous game.Zaroff hunts Rainsford on an Isolated island with no witness’s.If Rainsford gets killed within 3 days he loses.But,If he survives he gets sent home.In the book,The most dangerous game,by Richard Connell,it is clear that Rainsford changes from the beginning of the book to the end.In the beginning Rainsford is curious about what the animals he hunts feel like.He makes it clear he feels the animals he hunt are just there for him to kill.With the events that occur during the book change his view.

Yes, Rainsford was justified in killing zaroff.General Zaroff hunts people not animals and Rainsford states that it is murder what the general does, it's not hunting for fun as a sport, which is what Rainsford does. For instance in this scene the general has just pointed out that he doesn't hunt animals, instead he hunts humans. Rainsford says this. “Hunting? Great guns, General Zaroff, what you speak of is murder!” (Connell 5). My quote explains that Rainsford thinks killing people for fun is murder, which it is and the general just thinks it is for fun and that it doesn't matter that he is killing people. If Rainsford thought that what the General was doing was wrong and it would put other people in danger, he helped anyone that would have

He is a philosopher and shares his view of the world with others; “Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong and, if needs to be, taken by the strong.” He imposes his ideology of how the world works. Zaroff looks positively on the cruel and foul acts he committed with reasoning: “I assure you, I do not do the things you suggest… I treat these visitors with every consideration…” He justifies his acts and tries to convince Rainsford that he is right. He makes it sound like he is not setting his victims to their deaths and that it is all fun and games. However he puts it, Zaroff is still an evil yet ingenious mass

“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.” (John Steinbeck.) In Richard Connel’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game,” Rainsford will become the next general of Ship Trap Island not because he is power hungry, but because he is fearful. This quote from John Steinbeck is a perfect portrayal of how Rainsford really feels. He is fearful for his life and he still loves the thrill hunting gives him. The book has lead us to believe that Rainsford does not change overtime and in the end of the book he still has the urge to kill for if he didn’t, he would not have killed General Zaroff. He killed General Zaroff because he wanted to. He kills animals because he wants to. If he was to change for the better throughout the book, he would not have killed Zaroff. He is going to take over the island and use it for his ways and continue to hunt humans for sport because that is what he wants to do.

Which is why he thinks killing people for fun his acceptable. He went from just hunting animals then hunting men to, I think, becoming bored and that is why he wanted to hunt someone who thought he could overpower him, which was Rainsford. Whom totally surprised Zaroff when he arrived to the island first and ended up beating him at his own game. Rainsford ended by saying “I am still a beast at bay", then ended Zaroff’s games. There are the things that make General Zaroff a deceiving villain including the way he looks, the way he lives, and the way he speaks.

There are many similarities and differences between General Zaroff and Mr. Rainsford within “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell. The first difference between the two men is that General Zaroff hunts animals and humans alike. On the contrary, Mr. Rainsford hunts animals and nothing else. Moreover, Zaroff is a slender, handsome, Cossak and has a peculiar precision and a controlling attitude about him. He likewise carries a slight accent. Also, General Zaroff

In the Most Dangerous Game, Rainsford, an adventurous, and big game hunter, falls off a boat and swims ashore to Ship-Trap Island. When he arrives, he meets General Zaroff, who lives in a house on the island, and Ivan, Zaroff’s assistant who is big in size. Rainsford and Zaroff have a conversation over dinner, and talk about hunting animals. Zaroff talks about what he hunts, and that he hunts the “most biggest and dangerous game”. He says that this is the only type of game that can reason, and that is why he enjoys hunting it so much. When he says this, I think it is foreshadowing something bad will happen to Rainsford and Zaroff in the story. It also adds suspense to the story, as he will soon unveil the “most biggest and dangerous game”