The Most Dangerous Game General Zaroff Character Analysis

In “The Most Dangerous Game”, Richard Connell emphasises external conflict to illustrate General Zaroff's character as an amazing hunter who became arrogant. Specifically, General Zaroff emphasises his arrogance by playing with Rainsford over and over again, letting him live and not pursuing further when he has Rainsford cornered. The first situation that expresses external conflict inflicted by Zaroff, occurs when Rainsford describes how Zaroff clearly knows where Rainsford is yet did not kill him. “Before they could reach the branch where Rainsford lay; A smile fell over his brown face”(24). When Zaroff spares Rainsfords life he gives him and the reader the idea that he thinks he will be able to catch Rainsford easily and wants more time

In the story, “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, Sanger Rainsford outsmarts General Zaroff in multiple ways. One of the ways he outsmarts him is by crawling high up in a tree and finding shelter there. Two other ways he outsmarts him is by using a Malay mancatcher to attempt and catch General Zaroff, the other tactic he uses is by creating a trap out of a knife and some grapevine to stop the hounds from attacking him. He also uses his top physical condition to jump off the cliff and into the sea to get even farther away from the hounds.

In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game”, by Richard Connell, Rainsford is characterized as considerate, skilled, and smart. One example of Rainsford being considerate is when he says “what you speak of is murder. ”(49)This tells us that he knows murder is not right and looks at it as if he were in the victim’s shoes. One example of Rainsford being skilled was when “General Zaroff could not trace him. ”(Page

The Most Dangerous Game has a dark action you can examine right away from reading the story. In this story, the character General Zaroff starts off by hunting animals and than slowing moves onto hunting humans. This dark action is highlighted when Zaroff hunts the animals and people in the story.

When contrasting to “The Most Dangerous Game”, General Zaroff hunts men like Rainsford for pleasure, not for revenge. Another conflict is how the main characters started out in the stories. “He lunged for it; a short, hoarse cry came from his lips as he realized he had reached too far and had lost his balance” (Connell 5). This citation was when Rainsford heard gunshots from afar. His curiosity got the better of him, so he went to check it out.

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.

In the story General Zaroff states, “Simply this, hunting had ceased to be what you call `a sporting proposition.' It had become too easy. I always got my quarry. Always. There is no greater bore than perfection." (pg #7) In this statement General Zaroff is being very arrogant in saying that hunting has become too easy, he is perfect and he was becoming bored of it. Also the in the text, Zaroff states, "No animal had a chance with me any more. That is no boast; it is a mathematical certainty. The animal had nothing but his legs and his instinct. Instinct is no match for reason. When I thought of this it was a tragic moment for me, I can tell you." A sense of arrogance is also implied in this sentence in which the General is saying that no animal out there has a chance against him. He is practically saying he’s too good for all the animals and he is saddened by this. In both statements he is boasting in saying these

In the Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell, Zaroff has a Man vs. self conflict about him feeling bored of hunting animals and that he wants to hunt men such as Rainsford. When Zaroff was at the dinner table with Rainsford, he mentions “how no animal had a chance with him anymore” (69) and that he “had to invent a new animal that has courage, cunning, and above all, being able to reason. (69) Since Zaroff ran out of animal to hunt and have a competition with, he decides to up his game by hunting humans because they can have traits that make them harder to fight. Rainsford is a human and therefore Zaroff can use him to be the prey to help cure his

Another conflict in the story The Most Dangerous game is man vs man. Rainsford doesn't want to fight General Zaroff because he isn't confident in winning the dangerous game. But after General Zaroff forces Rainsford to play the game rainsford said “your

In “The Most Dangerous Game”, Rainsford is terrified to find that General Zaroff is actually a murder. Rainsford is listening intently to the new “species” that General Zaroff is describing as hunt for his game. General Zaroff has a passion and has become obsessed with hunt because it “had been (his) life”, but sadly “hunting was beginning to bore (him)”. He was eager to continue hunting because of how much he enjoyed it. He needed a new way to satisfy himself while still involving himself in hunting. He decided to go to the extremity of killing people to satisfy himself and make him find new excitement in the one hobby that used to be his life and his source of happiness. General Zaroff’s love and passion for hunting cause him to kill and murder because hunting animals was not satisfying him anymore. Rainsford realizes that he is in the presence of a murderer and when General Zaroff is describing how he has found a new hunt for killing Rainsford figures out that “what (General Zaroff) speak of is murder”. While Zaroff is defending himself by saying that he is not murdering, he does not realize that he sounds foolish because he is saying that he has fallen in love with hunting of humans’ The idea that someone is no joke, but General Zaroff thinks “it’s a game”. Consequently, General Zaroff’s dark side comes through because his love for hunting

“ Instinct is no match for reason” This is true according to general Zaroff, but does the author of the story agree? Yes, the author of “ The Most Dangerous Game” believes that reason is no match for instinct. Throughout the story he gives examples of how reason has out smarted instinct. Reason is the explanation or justification of a certain action or event;the reason is not affected by force of habit. It is a process of very analytical thinking. Instinct, instinct is action woven into your mind for long periods of time; it is a second nature for you. For example a professional basketball player following through after your shot, they do not have to think about what they are doing they just do it. Instinct is done by a force of habit, you do not think of instinct; it just comes naturally.

Dwight Lyman Moody once said, " character is what you are in the dark," to me that means that when someone is in the dark and they start to become afraid. The reaction to their fear reveals the type of person they are. In the Short story "The Most Dangerous Game," Richard Connell shows that Rainsford reveals his character when he is in the "dark" being hunted by the General. His reaction or his instinct to this internal conflict is to reveal is hunter self and turn the hunter into the hunted.

General Zaroff has waited for the perfect hunt his whole life, and he has finally found a hunter like himself to play “The Most Dangerous Game.” “It is a very great pleasure and honor to welcome Mr. Sanger Rainsford, the celebrated hunter, to my home,” General told Rainsford when they met. Before Rainsford arrived at General Zaroff’s island he heard gunshots from a small caliber weapon. He was curious about the noises he heard and went to deck of the boat he was on. Rainsford fell into the water, without a chance to get back on the boat, he swam to the noise of the gunshots. When he met General Zaroff, Zaroff already knew him from the books he read about his hunting stories. Both Rainsford and Zaroff love hunting and they are always looking

Connell first demonstrates the General’s proud heart on page seventy. There is a conversation between Rainsford and General Zaroff and Rainsford starts with the question, “But the animal, General Zaroff? Oh, it supplies me with the most exciting hunting in the world… But no animal can reason, … there is one that can. But you can’t mean - And why not?” The General is referring that he resulted into hunting humans. Earlier, he expresses how this sport was becoming tedious and needed something that can reason, which no animal can do, except humans; without reluctance, he turns to them to fulfill his personal needs. General Zaroff is a part of World War I before he returns to hunting. Because of his experiences in the war, he believes that it is acceptable to murder human beings out of pleasure, while Rainsford disagrees. Overall, General Zaroff is betraying his egotistic side by being willing to kill humans for his

The perplexing character seems like just an extreme hunter but figure out an alarming fact that he clearly is proud of, and doesn’t regret pursuing. General Zaroff redefines hunting when he restocks his island with a new type of life. The character General Zaroff, the disturbed antagonist from The Most Dangerous Game, portrays some prominent traits including an arrogance/cockiness, skillful, and insanity.