Short Summary: The Most Dangerous Game By Richard Connell

Hunting big game animals for sport was a popular pastime with the wealthy classes following World War I. The morality of killing for sport was not questioned in reality, but in this short story the author does question it by taking it a step further and having the protagonist, Sangor Rainsford, hunted by the antagonist, General Zaroff.In a short story full of irony, one of the greatest ironies of Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” is that General Zaroff repeatedly tells Rainsford that he maintains a sense of civilization on his island.

(TS) In “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, the main antagonist named Zarkoff practices something so evil, that when a man from mainstream society witnesses it, he views it as sinister. This short story follows an experienced hunter named Rainsford who becomes stranded on a deserted island where he becomes hunted by a character named Zaroff. However, by remaining calm in this bizarre and dangerous circumstance, Rainsford outwits the experienced Zaroff using traps and eventually kills him. However, what caused Zaroff to commit something so unimaginably sinister, that even a stolid hunter like Rainsford gapes at its insidiousness. (CD) When Zaroff first introduces himself to Rainsford at the start of the story he describes himself as an avid hunter who just couldn’t find any excitement in hunting animals

Most people like to hunt animals, but humans? However in the short story, General Zaroff likes to hunt humans. The story is called “The Most Dangerous Game” was written by Richard Connell. One night when Rainsfords stayed outside smoking, and he heard some gunshots, looked around if he seen anything. When he looks straight for and fell over board.

It is evident that life should be valued over all species in The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell. The main characters Rainsford and Zaroff are revealed as both having a strong passion for hunting. However this passion is only to a certain extent, readers learn Zaroff's hunger for hunting is continuous and he finds hunting humans no different than animals while Rainsford argues that is outright murder. More specifically, when Rainsford connects these dots he's astonished, “‘I can't believe you are serious. What you speak of is murder’”(Connell 112).

Imagine you, a well known hunter, are stranded on a humid, tropical island with no wildlife other than a psychotic man. This psychopath is a fellow hunter, but desires to poach even greater and smarter game with extremely high intelligence, and is the smartest animal of all -- humans. Throughout the story, the author creates a suspenseful mood through several conflicts the main character encounters, while struggling to survive the “most dangerous game.” In Richard Connell’s short adventure story, “The Most Dangerous Game,” Rainsford, a hunter, travels to South America on a hunting expedition, when he carelessly falls off his yacht and into the Caribbean Sea. Struggling to find a place to rest, he swims to an island off in the distance. Upon reaching the island, he comes across a large building where he is warmly welcomed by the owner of the establishment, also a renowned hunter, named General Zaroff, only to find that he is a lunatic. After learning of General Zaroff’s sins, Rainsford is challenged by the general in a game of life and death, and their specialty, hunting. From beginning to end, the author of this short survival story creates a suspenseful mood through the three main conflicts the main character encounters.

Richard Connell’s suspenseful story, “The Most Dangerous Game,” tells of two intellectual hunters who have different perspectives on hunting with diverse personalities. There are several parallels and several variances between the hunters. Their perspectives and personalities play an immense part in showing the reader how the hunters are more the same than they are different. By the end of the story, the hunters understand that they are more alike than they ever imagined. There are several similarities between Rainsford and General Zaroff, the hunters.

You are wrong, sir. The Cape buffalo is not the most dangerous big game.” “I hunt more dangerous game.” He told him. After Rainsford heard that he hunts “more

Baden Masenthin Mrs. Christie Advanced English 9 2 April 2024 The Most Dangerous Game written response There are two central themes in The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell. The first theme explores the relationship between humans and animals in regard to trophy hunting. This theme is developed throughout the story, and begins when General Zaroff describes his big game hunts. Likewise, it continues to develop when Zaroff explains how animals lack qualities like reasoning, making them so easy to hunt that hunting has started to bore him. The second theme analyzes the ethical choices humans make when placed under extreme circumstances, and begins when Rainsford explains to General Zaroff that he would never hunt a human because it is morally

The hunt is on in the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game” written by Richard Connell. Sanger Rainsford, the main character, falls victim to General Zaroff’s abhorrent game, but to avoid his almost certain death he uses his knowledge of hunting against Zaroff. He constructed three different traps to slow Zaroff down. The first was a Malay mancatcher that injured Zaroff’s shoulder. The second, a Burmese tiger pit that killed one of his dogs, and the third was a trap he had learned in Uganda that killed Ivan.

In order to feel satisfied, humans naturally find an activity to do when they encounter themselves no longer entertained. In the case of “The Most Dangerous Game,” written by Richard Connell, General Zaroff creates exactly what the titles states, the most dangerous game, a game of hunting the only animal that can reason: humans. This is quite ironic because Zaroff has all the wealth and power to do anything, but creates this game only to escape his boredom. Connell wrote “The Most Dangerous Game” with Rainsford as the main character, a role most typically associated with the archetypal hero. However, with an understanding of the story, readers question whether Rainsford really is the hero, his values of humans and animals, and the possibility of him becoming the villain, provoking readers to realize that the cycle of violence and oppression goes on even if believed to already be conquered.

C.S. Lewis one said “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny”. Facing hardships and breaking free from their normal world allows the hero inside of people to come out. Many stories document this journey of a hero through the Hero’s Journey Archetype. In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, a man named Rainsford stumbles upon an island where humans are hunted by a crazed man. The hero’s journey archetype is implemented throughout Rainsford’s experiences in the story. Richard Connell used the Hero’s Journey Archetype to structure the plot and develop the theme that with clever thinking and the use of past experiences, one can succeed at anything.

In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” the author, Richard Connell, does an outstanding job of portraying the bizarre adventure of an insane, however experienced hunter, General Zaroff. The protagonist, Rainsford, another experienced hunter from New York City, appears on General Zaroff’s island, explores, and eventually encounters with Zaroff. They introduce themselves, settle down, and begin to talk. During the talk with the general, Rainsford soon learns that the General was not only a hunter; but a murderer as well. Zaroff has lured and ceased many sailors to his island to play a game. Although, they did not hunt with the General, the General hunted them! Zaroff claimed that hunting “had become too easy”, therefore, hunting began

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.

In this short story, the hunters are Zaroff and Ivan. They are the ones hunting down Rainsford and trying to kill him on the island. In the beginning Rainsford believes that Ivan and Zaroff just hunt large game. He is correct but that begins to bore zaroff and he moves onto to a more hard to catch pray, hence the title, “The Most Dangerous Game’

Ethical hunters are hunters that abide by the written laws and unwritten code of honor to uphold sportsmanship. In “The Most Dangerous Game” a hunt for survival between expert hunters, General Zaroff, and Rainsford takes place and conflicting beliefs of hunting clash. Zaroff is shown to be the more ethical hunter in comparison to his foil; Rainsford, as Zaroff shares his enjoyment of hunting, follows the principle of “fair chase”, and treats his game with respect.