The Most Dangerous Game Analysis

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.

Furthermore in the story “The Most Dangerous Game” General Zaroff had a strive to kill for fun. Zaroff would always kill animals, and after animals became easy, he moved onto humans. Zaroff would enjoy killing and it became

In “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, General Zaroff is shown as insane, competitive, and mean. General Zaroff is shown to be insane in the story when he kills humans for fun. “It must have courage, cunning, and, above all, it must be able to reason.” (Connell 69).

Sanger Rainsford, shows this very clearly as he takes the life of General Zaroff. He showed how cruel and barbaric General Zaroff really was. Before Rainsford thought he had found a fellow hunter until ‘“ Hunting? Good God, General Zaroff, what you speak of is murder.”’ (63).

General Zaroff is uncivilized because he thinks that it is fair and ordinary to kill other humans for his own pleasure. The text shows that he is uncivilized when he replies to Rainsford’s comment about murder and says, “Life is for the strong, and if needs be, taken by the strong” (Connell 14). When Zaroff says that life is for the strong, it reveals that he is a very selfish person who doesn’t care about others. It reveals his perspective on the world. It also shows that General Zaroff is a very one-sided person. Another example that proves that General Zaroff is uncivilized is when he comments

For example, in line one hundred and twenty of the story, he says, “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.” Here, it’s very apparent what the general beliefs are, the weaker in society are simply to be used by the ones stronger. For him to believe that the weaker should be used by the stronger, really shows how he thinks when he is finding victims, and even while killing. Another example of General Zaroff thinking that the people he kills are his bait is in line one hundred and thirty-one, while talking to Rainford, General Zaroff says, “It’s a game you see, I suggest to one of them that we go hunting.

The author, Richard Connell uses irony make the short story more interesting. General Zaroff’s exact quote from page 99 is “We will have some capital hunting,

The most dangerous game: compare/contrast In the book The most dangerous game Rainsford is on a yacht and hears a gun shot. Rainsford leaned over the side of the yacht to investigate and drops his pipe. He went to reach for the pipe and goes over board. He tries to swim after the yacht, but can’t reach it and decides to swim to land.

It had been a week since Rainsford managed to kill the nefarious General Zaroff. The challenging part was almost over or so it seemed. There was not a clear way for Rainsford to escape. As days passed, Rainsford tried to escape. He tried making a boat from driftwood that he found, he tried swimming, he even tried sending a signal by using a flashlight. Rainsford had become so desperate that he even tried some ridiculous plans like trying to pole vault across the ocean. As a result, Rainsford ended up having huge gashes in his left leg ,which got infected, and he had to amputate it. As days turned into weeks, and weeks into months, Rainsford had lost hope and became bitter.

Projection and identification, in the “Most Dangerous Game” Zaroff chooses his prey that are in most aspects similar to him, he enjoys hunting when it is the most difficult for him, General Zaroff embodies the ego, he overestimates his abilities as a hunter and sees himself as “better”. This unfortunately leads to his death.. This act allows him to ignore his own brutality and malice by attributing it to others. It is possible to infer this from the following quote, "’My dear fellow,’ said the general, ‘have I not told you I always mean what I say about

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

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 story I chose to write about is titled “The Most Dangerous Game”. The story started when Rainsford and Whitney, two men who enjoyed being able to hunt as a sport, are in a boat that is heading to Rio de Janeiro, a city in the country of Brazil. When Rainsford is alone on the deck of the boat, he hears some sounds that looked like gunshots and while trying to see where the source of the shots came from, he falls from the deck. He swims to shore and falls asleep when he gets there. The next morning he goes out to explore and finds a puddle of blood, thinking that it belonged to the animals that was being hunted.

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