The Most Dangerous Game 'And The Destructors'

The line between good and evil can get blurred, even by the most well-intentioned individual. In Richard Connell’s short story, “The Most Dangerous Game,” those lines are clearly drawn as the two main characters engage in a battle of wits, where the cost of the game is the loss of one’s life. Connell’s story opens with Sanger Rainsford and his friend, Whitney, sailing toward their next hunting destination, when an accident sends Rainsford overboard and towards an alleged suspicious island. Once on land, Rainsford meets the owner of the island, General Zaroff, a Cossack, with a passion for hunting new and exciting game. That game however, isn’t Rainsford’s idea of sport. The author utilizes both internal and external conflict to draw the reader

“ 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.

I read the short story, The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell. In this story a man named Rainsford falls off of a boat by a deserted-looking island. He finds a creepy man named Zaroff that lives on the island, and Zaroff hunts people that he traps on his island. In this journal, I will be evaluating the character of Zaroff.

A man gets hunted by another man on the deserted Ship-Trap Island in the middle of the Caribbean. Rainsford, the protagonist in “The Most Dangerous Game”, a short story written by Richard Connell, gets hunted by General Zaroff. Rainsford abounds with fear, making him crazy. General Zaroff’s arrogance causes him to feel that he possesses the right to hunt the people he captures. His arrogance causes him to commit gruesome things; in this case, murder. Prior to becoming another man’s prey, Rainsford feels that animals have no feelings, but he sympathizes for animals being hunted after he himself becomes prey. His feelings and opinions transform after this experience. “The Most Dangerous Game” consists of three central themes: fear makes an individual crazy, arrogance causes hurtful actions, and some experiences have the potential to alter an individual’s opinion.

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.

In both stories, “The Destructors” by Graham Greene, and “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, the authors relate to every day, real life situations that we think we can't deal with. We have to remind ourselves that this walk in life will not always be easy, but going through situations, some good and not so good, with a positive attitude allows us to finish as true champions. In the two short stories, the setting of the story plays a vital role by acting as the foundation. In fact, the setting of a story gives us as readers the chance to read at our pace while trying to get the true meaning of the story.  In my essay, I will present the writer’s intentions of both stories by comparing and contrasting the setting of both stories.

In the story “The Most Dangerous Game” there is 3 big conflicts that make the story. If they were not in the story it wouldn't had made any sense. These 3 conflicts are the story, They happen in the beginning, Middle and end. There would be no story without them.

In any story, there must be problems that leave the main character in a predicament. That is the case in the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell. There are three main types of conflicts. One conflict in man versus nature because even though Rainsford is a sailor, he is most hated by the sea. Another, conflict found in the story is man versus himself considering Rainsford must face the toughest challenge of all; himself. Most importantly, the last conflict is man versus man since Rainsford is forced to go head-to-head with General Zaroff. It is crucial that “The Most Dangerous Game” has these three main issues to make the story exciting.

In this story “The Most Dangerous Game” By Richard Connell there is a General named Zaroff who was a hunter. Zaroff thought the the most dangerous game was hunting people. The man that was being hunted was named Rainsford. He had fallen off his ship, and swam to the island, and then found Zaroff. There are many parts in this story, and I wanted to tell you about it. Zaroff has done this “hunting” thing for many years. Now there is one man that is going to stop him.

Zaroff is much more committed to hunting than Rainsford ( Zaroff explains that hunting is his life, but Rainsford says that he enjoys hunting as the best sport in the world) Rainsford believes that the idea of hunting men is considered murder while ,Zaroff believes that he is morally allowed to do it : in the end, Rainsford wins the game while zaroff loses.

In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, Sanger Rainsford falls off his boat, and ends up on General Zaroff’s island, known as Ship-Trap Island, and is expected to hunt with him. While at first Zaroff is a fan and becomes a friend of Rainsford’s, they both find out that they have many similarities such as their beliefs, what they have experienced in their lives, and their love for hunting which also has a difference which leads to Zaroff’s misfortune. Both Rainsford and Zaroff will try to get all the fun out of hunting, not knowing or thinking about how an animal, or in Zaroff’s case a person, feels to be hunted. On Rainsford’s yacht, Rainsford discusses with his good friend Whitney who also loves hunting, about how

The short story by , “The Most Dangerous Game”, by Richard Connell deals with many external conflicts. While on a ship in the Caribbean Sea, Rainsford goes overboard after his pipe. When Rainsford is in the water he has to decide whether he is going to swim after his ship or swim to the nearby island, Ship Trap Island. After Rainsford decides to swim to the island, he “fights” his way through the jungle to come across a château who’s owner is General Zaroff who is also a hunter like Rainsford however, Zaroff hunts the most dangerous game, men. Rainsford is then given a choice to play Zaroff’s game or deal with the torturer, Ivan. During Rainsford’s experience on the island he has to deal with an external conflict while playing Zaroff’s “game”.

Conflicts are the driving point of most writing. Identifying them is very important to understanding the work itself. In order to get the full meaning, you must dissect the conflict and see how it works. Look at what made it happen and its results. Then, you can see what was really going on.

The Most Dangerous Game Comparison Recently we have read a short story called The Most Dangerous Game. It’s about a man, Rainsford, who falls off his yacht and swims to a remote island. On that island he discovers a medieval house of a rich hunter, General Zaroff. He visits with Zaroff and finds out that he hunts a “new species” of animal on that very island.

The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell is an action-packed story about an eerie survival game. In the beginning of the text, a hunter named Sanger Rainsford is aboard his yacht when he falls into the ocean and swims to an island nearby. He spots a house in the middle of the woods and goes to it to find shelter, food, clothes, and a place to rest. At the house, Rainsford meets General Zaroff, who tells Rainsford that he has brought big game onto the island to hunt. Rainsford soon realizes that the game is human. Zaroff wants Rainsford to hunt humans with him, but Rainsford refuses because he thinks of it as murder. Zaroff makes a deal with Rainsford,which states for him to leave the island he has to be hunted for three days. If Rainsford