Saw : Jigsaw : The Philosophy Of Saw

In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game,” Connell uses similes and metaphors to compare two concepts and create a more detailed description. The use of these literary devices suggest that Connell wanted to convey an eerie setting that shows its more descriptive surrounding.

“ The world is made up of two classes--the hunters and the huntees,” stated Rainsford in the famous short story, The Most Dangerous Game, by Richard Connell. Connell’s story is a fictional story about man hunting man. His piece of literature was made into a movie later on, and in the movie Rainsford made a very similar statement. However, there were changes made between the short story and movie. The similarities and differences become clear in both the plot and resolution. Although the the literary work and motion picture have much in common, they are also quite different.

In the book Games Criminals Play, it designed to assist law enforcement professionals in developing a better perceptive of criminals’ thoughts and behavior by discussing a sequence of ingenious phases, called a 'set-up.’ Prisoners operate this method to manipulate prison staff. Therefore, leading the police and correctional officers into violating the law. Throughout the book, it provides a systematic process of the ‘set-up’ and actual case histories to illustrate how a person can become a victim of a set-up. Additionally, presenting to the readers the ‘protectors’ necessary to hinder the process of a set-up, if the individual suspects they are about to become a victim.

In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game,” author Richard Connell expertly exploits foreshadowing and vivid imagery to emphasize danger and suspense. Many authors attempt to do this, but only a small few succeed. Everyone who has stayed up past their bedtime reading a book will tell you, they stayed awake because the book they were reading was filled with suspense. It is suspense that separates the great stories from the good stories. And “The Most Dangerous Game” is definately a great one. By using foreshadowing and utilizing his characters five senses, Connell keeps readers at the edge of their seats, eagerly waiting to find out what comes next.

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.

Presumption of one’s character, lifestyle, or troubles in life is taken from looking at that person and assuming you know all about them. In order to fully understand someone’s pain, you must endure it in their shoes. This is the theme for the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game,” written by Richard Connell. As Rainsford, the main character of the short story, tries to survive in the wild from a psychotic general who hunts humans as game, the reader sees his change in perspective on what it feels to be hunted. This demonstrates the theme of the short-story through the use of situational irony, man vs. man conflict, and internal conflict.

In “The Most Dangerous Game,” Richard Connell correlates three common literary devices especially well: setting, suspense, and plot. Connell makes use of an appropriate setting, the literary element of suspense, and an interesting plot in order to strengthen the story’s recurring theme of reason versus instinct within humans, and to blur that line between reason and instinct.

Imagine wandering in the middle of a jungle, with little food and not any knowledge of the ground. All one can hope is to stay alive. Couple that with a psychotic man in pursuit and the terror grows significantly. In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game.” Written by, Richard Connell, you have to have courage for any hope of living on this island.

Richard Connell and Shirley Jackson explore the perpetuation and condoning of human evils through storytelling in their short stories; “The Most Dangerous Game” and “The Lottery”. Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” is a short story about a rural town, approximately 300 and it’s strange tradition. This “tradition” pertains to the people of the town all partaking in a “Lottery”. This Lottery’s objective is to draw a black marked note. He who draws the final marked note is sentenced to a ruthless, brutal and painful death by stoning. In Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” a big game hunter by the name of “Sanger Rainsford” falls overboard and is left stranded on a ship-trap island. Rainford finds himself in a gigantic house. In the home,

“He knew his pursuer was coming; he heard the padding sound of feet on the soft earth… (Connell 32)” The Most Dangerous Game is a story full of adventures and seems to always have the reader on edge. Richard Connell’s story is filled with the theme of ‘will.’ This book is also full of plot twists and makes one mesmerized page by page wanting to know what happens to Rainsford. It also lets the reader to question what happens at the end and it allows the reader to make connections with real life, archetypes, and other literature. The Most Dangerous Game is a compelling hunt full of violence, action, and the theme of ‘will’ in the hunt of a man by a man.

“Rainsford heard a sound. It came out of the darkness, a high screaming sound, the sound of an animal in an extremity of anguish and terror” (16). In the shocking short story “The Most Dangerous Game” created by Richard Connell, tension and terror is manufactured in the eyes of the reader. In the chilling story of a hunter and a huntee, the author subjects the audience to Rainsford’s grief and agony of the hunt. Combining suspenseful foreshadowing and vivid imagery, the writer produces apprehension and fashions shock in the eyes of the reader.

Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game" and Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" both attempt to provide their readers with the cruel truth regarding how it is typically human to express interest in cold-blooded acts. These two short stories discuss about people who see nothing wrong with promoting criminal behavior, but who eventually come to acknowledge the horrible position that the victim is in by experiencing it from a first-person perspective. Sanger Rainsford, and, respectively, Tessie Hutchinson are the central characters in these two stories and they are unable to complexly understand the situation that a victim is in until they actually realize that they are the victims.

A little background information about the Saw movies is the first Saw movie was released October 29 2004, along with the newly created series, the second Saw movie was released October 28 2005, almost a year after the first movie of the series was released. The Saw movies are an established movie franchise. These movies are very dark as well as gory, which appeal to those who are fond of graphic horror. The first Saw movies was directed and written by James Wan, the second Saw movie was directed by Darren Lynn Bousman. When watching the two Saw movies, the audience can spot the differences between them. Each movie has a few similar characters. The main characters in Saw I as well as Saw II are as follows: Tobin Bell, as John Kramer/Jigsaw, Dina Meyer, Detective Allison Kerry, and Shawnee Smith, Amanda Young. These characters were constant between the first two Saw movies. The Saw series is known as movies that over uses gore for some parts of the movie; nonetheless, the use of the gore causes the movie to be more intense for the audience watching.

Postmodern horror films “often draw inspiration from, pay homage to, or directly reference “other generic codes and structures, in particular science-fiction and the suspense thriller…” (Pinedo, 14)” (Wadenius). One characteristic of postmodern horror that The Cabin in the Woods demonstrates is intertextuality. While the film draws inspiration from many different sources of horror fiction, it mainly draws from slasher films while blending elements of sci-fi and comedy “such that it is possible to see and appreciate the transgression” (Pinedo, 14). Carol Clover’s brief plot summary of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre sounds almost identical to the main storyline of The Cabin in the Woods. “Five young people are driving through Texas in a van; they stop off at an abandoned house and are serially murdered by the psychotic sons of a degenerate local family; the sole survivor is a woman.”

Throughout cinema, there has always been space in our hearts for the gore and intrigue that come from horror films. Though they come with different plots, there remains “the monster”, the character that brings along disgust, horror, suspense, and even sympathy. In Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960), our monster is Norman Bates, the boy next door. This was one of the first times in American cinema that the killer was brought home, paving the way for the future of horror movies. According to Robin Wood in “An Introduction to the America Horror Film” (183-208), Bates follows the formula of the Monster being a human psychotic. This is conveyed through his normal façade portrayed with his introduction, the audience’s ambivalence, the use of