In today’s world danger is at every footstep and knowing some self-defense skills can come in handy. In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game”, by Richard Connell, Sanger Rainsford falls off a yacht and swims to a mysterious island. On the island, Rainsford encounters a strange hunter, General Zaroff, who hunts human beings. Rainsford seems to be the hunter’s next target. General Zaroff and Rainsford play the most dangerous game in which Rainsford punishes the general for his crimes. Rainsford’s actions can be classified as self-defense. By killing Ivan, the security guard, and the general, he proves that he does not want to die and the general was a criminal.
Firstly, Zaroff was planning on making Rainsford his next prey, however, Rainsford did not want to die. At this point of the story, Rainsford was aware he was the next to die. The little questionnaire game that Rainsford and the general played, confirmed Rainsford’s suspect that he was going to get killed. The general discusses his previous night’s hunting and explains how it was too easy for him to enjoy. He supports his complaint by describing how the sailors are always dumb and dull. Rainsford did not seem the least bit of interested in the general’s story about his hunting. Rainsford tries to postpone the “game” between the general and him by stating, “‘General’, said Rainsford firmly, ‘I wish to leave this island at once’” (Connell 36). Being a renowned hunter, Rainsford was seen as a challenge for the
In the story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell and the poem “Porphyria’s Lover” by Robert Browning, the authors use characterization and imagery to convey that the desire for power can drive man to psychotic actions.
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.
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
Resourcefulness is being able to overcome difficulties quickly and in a clever way. Resourcefulness can also be using one’s surroundings for his/her benefit with prior knowledge and experience. In Richard Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game” the main character Rainsford shows these skills of resourcefulness as he tries to survive the hunt. Rainsford is an experienced big game hunter that is trapped on a tropical jungle covered island with another big game hunter, General Zaroff. Zaroff has gained so much experience in hunting, due to this he has lost interest in hunting animals and now enjoys the hunt of humans. Rainsford is put in the position to be torched or participate in a game of hunting. When Rainsford is challenged to this game of hunting he is forced to try and survive. Rainsford is able to survive the hunt because he uses his resources and prior knowledge to weaken Zaroff helping him win the hunt.
One of the darker actions examined in this unit takes place in "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell. In this short story, General Zaroff begins hunting a man lost on his island named Rainsford. Bored of the usual game, General Zaroff decides he wants something more exciting and chooses to prey on humans. This ill-judged decision has a domino effect on the plot, ultimately ending in the demise of Zaroff. Nonetheless, an alternate ending besides death could have very well been a possibility. Perhaps, instead of hunting humans, Zaroff decides to open a hunting camp to share his passion for the sport with others. Obviously, his boredom is caused by the island's isolation from society. So, Zaroff could have built homes and started a community or decide to leave the island altogether. Then, the course of this story would have taken a completely different path. Maybe, Zaroff finds a wife, they have children and live happily ever after. If only he was able to overcome his dark side instead of letting it consume him.
In the short story by Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game, Sanger Rainsford finds himself in a sticky situation when he meets General Zaroff. General Zaroff is a very talented hunter and had become tired of hunting the same old animals as always, they bored him as he explained in the story, he had now moved on to the best prey he could find, a prey that could fight and think for themselves, and that prey was humans. Rainsford is taken aback by this confession and is alarmed, he asks Zaroff to let him go, but Zaroff has other plans. In order for Rainsford to get off the island alive he must survive three full days on the island while being hunted by General Zaroff. Rainsford agrees, knowing that if declines this choice his life would have a much more unpleasant future. And so the the hunt began, but Rainsford had some tricks up his sleeve.
Underestimation and cruel actions lead to many things. In “The Most Dangerous Game,” author Richard Connell reveals a conflict between main characters, General Zaroff and Rainsford. Rainsford was to play the most dangerous game, created by Zaroff, because the only way to survive, is to win it, otherwise death is the only other option. As demonstrated through the use of personification, symbolism, and repetition in the story, it conveys that one should understand to never underestimate another person and remember that there will always be a consequence for the wicked things that one has done.
There are survivors all around us, and they all could have faced grave challenges to be standing where they are today. Rainsford, in the "Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell, faced intense challenges in a "fight to the death" conflict against one of his most successful supporters, General Zaroff. Lee, from "My escape from North Korea" by Hyeonseo Lee, faced tough challenges while trying to escape the depths of a country that treated her horrendously. Aron Ralston, from "Trapped", a story explaining that Aron himself was hiking alone when the unthinkable happened: Two large, heavy boulders fell on his arm and he had to endure over a hundred painful hours of being trapped in between the two rocks until he did a self-amputation on the arm
#53) The reason this is so important is because General Zaroff is a very experienced hunter,who has never lost at his game,but even he could not trace Rainsford. This tells us that Rainsford is skilled at hiding and reacting quickly. An example of Rainsford being smart was when he thought of “A native trick he learned in Uganda. He slid
In the short story, "The Most Dangerous Game", Rainsford was justified in the killing of General Zaroff. Rainsford was an animal hunter on his way to Rio, that fell off his yacht. He swam to Ship-Trap island and he met Ivan and General Zaroff. General Zaroff let Mr. Rainsford stay in his mansion and he provided food and clothing. As Rainsford got to know General Zaroff. he found out General Zaroff trap men on the island to hunt them like they are animals.
In, the short story, “The most Dangerous Game”, Rainsford kills General Zaroff. Some readers believe Rainsford has the right to eliminate Zaroff. Others believe that no human being should be killed under no circumstance but most people believe that Rainsford had a right to kill Zaroff because Zaroff killed many people in the past and tried to kill Rainsford in the process when Rainsford washed up onto shipwreck island and hunted him down for two ish daies which zaroff calls his murder his dangerous game. For instance“That would be barbarous. I treat these visitors with every consideration. They got plenty of good food and exercise. They get into splendid physical condition” (Connell 5). After all, this quotation means That general Zaroff is
Zaroff was fascinated by Rainsford and his work. Both were awestruck by big game hunting. Rainsford was beginning to find Zaroff as a true cosmopolite, but there was something that still bothered Rainsford. The two men commuted for a while and Rainsford was amused when Zaroff said that he was hunting more dangerous game than what Rainsford thought to be the most dangerous big game of all. Zaroff tells Rainsford that, although he hunted the big game, he had to stock the island himself. A little while later Rainsford was told by Zaroff that he hunted humans. He asked Rainsford to join, and Rainsford, scared, agreed. The next night Rainsford refused to hunt. Zaroff tells Rainsford if he didn't hunt he would become the
The short story “The Most Dangerous Game” is written by Richard Connell and is about a hunter that hunts a new species. The story is about Rainsford that is sailing on a yacht in the Caribbean Sea, and it crashes near Ship- Trap Island. Rainsford and he swims there and find out he either can hunt with General Zaroff or be hunted; Rainsford chose to be hunted and he won “the game”. The reader should learn from the story that even sometimes the best don’t succeed.
In the short story “ The Most Dangerous Game “, Rainsford was justified in killing General Zaroff. In this short story a man named Rainsford was on a ship with a couple men on a island called Ship-Trap. The ship got in a crash in the couple men died then Rainsford heard 3 gun shots so he knew that he wasn’t the only one on the island. Rainsford swims to shore they had a chateau so , he knocks on the door in that’s how he meet General Zaroff ; Shortly General Zaroff tells Rainsford about the game but Rainsford didn’t want apart of the game. Rainsford don’t hunt humans , he was a animal hunter Zaroff disagreed with Rainsford so it became ; Rainsford being the prey and General Zaroff was the predator.
General Zaroff is from Russia and he is also a clever hunter with a lot of impressive fur. At the beginning of the story, Zaroff seemed like a very refined and polished man, but as the story progressed Rainsford finds out actually how sick and twisted this man is. General Zaroff created the island Ship-Trap to lure people into coming on his island and forcing them play his game. Unfortunately Rainsford is one of the unlucky few that gets lured into