The Most Dangerous Game By Richard Connell

From the words of C.S. Lewis, “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 lots of hope, one can succeed at anything.

Underestimation and cruel actions lead to many things. In “The Most Dangerous Game,” author Richard Connell reveals a conflict between the 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.

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.

General Zarroff demonstrates his deep love for hunting when he says, “My whole life has been one prolonged hunt”(6). Richard Connell gives the reader a vivid description of the antagonist’s pursuit in his short story “The Most Dangerous Game”. While Zarroff is seeking his objective, the reader engages in Rainsford’s fear. This connection builds a feeling of terror at the heart of the story. Connell applies these concepts by wrapping his story in an aura of uncertainty. In order to create this suspense, Connell utilizes imagery and diction in “The Most Dangerous Game”.

Richard Connell’s The Most Dangerous Game is an action-packed and suspenseful short story. This tale is about a man in the early 1920s named Sanger Rainsford who falls off a yacht and gets stuck on an island that holds a bad reputation. He finds shelter in a castle where he is welcomed but then, gets outwitted into being hunted as part of a dangerous game for three days by a Cossack named General Zaroff.

When one is hunting, do they ever stop to think about how it feels to be the prey? In Richard Connell’s short story, “The Most Dangerous Game”, the character Rainsford has a change of opinion and feelings to this very question. In the beginning of the story, Rainsford is on a ship with a colleague and expresses that he is only concerned about the feelings of himself as the hunter and not those of the “huntee”. Not long after falling off the ship and arriving to a nearby island is it that Rainsford experiences what it is like to be the huntee. Connell uses many transitions within in the story that leads the reader in suspense and encourages them to keep reading. The transitions are first when Rainsford falls off the ship and approaches the island, when allows him to come into his house and stay, and when the hunt results in the two going against each other.

Whenever you hear the word evil or immoral, what pops up into your head? The character General Zaroff from a story called “The Most Dangerous Game” written by Richard Connell pops up into my head. General Zaroff is a man who lives on an island called Ship-Trap Island. Zaroff proves his immorally so many ways in the story. He lures sailors onto this island by using a bright light to trap them into a fake cannel, kidnaps the sailors, and then hunts them. Zaroff is an evil person who kills humans for the fun of it. Zaroff considers killing humans a sport, does not think it is murder, and forced the main character, Rainsford, in the book to be hunted.

One method Richard Connell uses to create suspense in “The Most Dangerous Game” is slowing down the exposition with the purpose of dragging it out and creating a pace that keeps the reader waiting in a prolonged state of suspense. For example, on page 9, Rainsford stumbles upon the chateau after washing up on Ship-Trap island where he is greeted by its owner, saying “‘It is a very great pleasure to welcome Mr. Sanger Rainsford, the celebrated hunter, to my home...I am General Zaroff.’” Connell is using this part of the story to introduce a primary character, General Zaroff, which is a typical component of the exposition; however, it is unique in that he has taken four pages so far and has barely brought the soon to be antagonist into the

In the action packed short story, The Most Dangerous Game, Richard Connell writes about a lost hunter’s journey. But, through his use of analogies and irony, Connell is able to convey some messages with much deeper meanings. There are two main characters in the short story, Rainsford, the sailor and hunter whose yacht was shipwrecked, and General Zaroff, who owned his own island that he used for “The Hunt”. Throughout the text, Connell uses analogies to justify the General’s morals.

n the story The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell, it is very hard to miss the odd behaviors of General zaroffboth before and after revealing his hunt for men. After revealing his intentions, zaroff acts as if his game is a normal part of his life and does not acknowledge his hunt as anything abnormal. However, these aspects of Zaroff's character does not necessarily mean he is guilty of his acts. General Zaroffis not guilty of murder because of his presumed insanity throughout the story and his lack of the perception of right and wrong,as well as a lack of empathy. In the story, Zaroff's personality is observed as a little more than strange, especially considering how open he is with Rainsford about his game. I am strong. Why should I

In “The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell convey the easily corruptible nature of mankind. Connell uses setting, conflict, and character to convey that when confronted with fear mankind acts differently, but without the ability to experience fear mankind abandons its morals.

Richard Connell, the author of “The Most Dangerous Game,” used the setting in different functions through perseverance in his short story.

The Most Dangerous Game Analysis In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell, the protagonist Rainsford is being hunted by another human on a deserted island. Connell writes vividly using different forms of figurative language. The story engages the reader to feel the emotions that Rainsford experiences and uses dialogue to advance the plot. The characters are well made however, not much background is given to the reason why they are certain ways.

Have you ever gotten that feeling, where a cold quick chill runs up your spine? Scary stories excite and thrill us to no end. But there is one that will make you have nightmares every day, The Most Dangerous Game. This is a story which provides the reader with the feeling of being hunted, the thrill when the prey surprises the predator by sneaking into his own closet, and where the hunted face the hunters.

Richard Edward Connell was an American author, who was probably most famous for the short story “The Most Dangerous Game.” Connell started writing at the age of 10 covering baseball games for his father 's paper. By the age of sixteen he had become the editor of the Poughkeepsie News-Press. Connell was a very smart man who studied at Georgetown and Harvard.While at Harvard he was the editorial chairman. Connell 's writing style was usually action-adventure. Some of his works were probably inspired from his time working as a homicide journalist, and serving in World War I. By the time Connell passed away he had published over 300 short stories. Richard Connell was a very unique author from experiences he had through out his life, and so was the writing style that he portrayed.