The Most Dangerous Game General Zaroff Quotes

The violence of his mailous host, General Zaroff, initially shocks Rainsford but as he fights to stay alive he becomes caught up in Zaroff’s game. The Generals attempts to justify his violence with “civilized” arguments (“Dangerous Game”). He poses as a modern rationalist and argues against “romantic ideas about the value of human life” and the scolds Rainsford for being “extraordinarily droll” in his response. Zaroff continually defends his murderous desires as the sophisticated and rational extension of hunting animals. Issues of violence and cruelty in “The Most Dangerous Game” exist not only on a literal level but on a symbolic level as well. As Connell directs the reader to sympathize with Rainsford, the reader feels what it is like to be a hunted animal. Zaroff’s shows off his animal heads and after describing his new prey, he refers to his “new collection or heads,” which are supposedly human. Connell mixes violence and cruelty with pleasure to engage the reader and makes a statement at the same time (“Dangerous Game”). Zaroff’s murder, therefore, is not self-defense, as it would have been before Rainsford won the game. It’s either an act of revenge or killing for sport. When he first learns of Zaroff’s sport, Rainsford is horrified. Yet, during the game he kills the dog and Ivan and does not indicate remorse. . He does not set the other “prey” free as soon as he murders Zaroff. Connell thus opens up the possibility that playing the game changes Rainsford (“Dangerous

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Even though clearly distraught Rainsford was able to make key decisions to save his life. “Nerve, nerve, nerve” he panted, as he dashed along …. Then he leaped far into the sea.”(18). This quote tells the reader even while battling nerves and running away from a pack of dogs Rainsford was able to make a imperative choice to save his life. Rainsford survives the three days to beat Zaroff and win the game but still feels uneasy will not rest until General Zaroff is dead. “I am still a beast at bay,” he said, in a low, hoarse voice.” Get ready, General Zaroff.”(18). This quote discloses to the reader that Rainsford felt like quarry and wanted Zaroff dead and was not satisfied with merely winning the game.This quote also shows what kind of man Rainsford is and how he is willing to die for what he feels is right. Rainsford battled many trials throughout the story but somehow managed to make the best out of each one.

Lastly, for my third plot example General Zaroff was trying to kill Rainsford because humans were his new big game. Zaroff tries to kill Rainsford, but really he is the one who ends up dying at the end, not Rainsford. Richard Connell uses dialogue to highlight how Rainsford and Zaroff are talking about how only one of them are going to die and the another will live happily on the bed. “Rainsford, how did you get here?” “ I swam, it was quicker than walking through the jungle.” “I congratulate you, you win the game.” “I am still a hunted animal.” “ Get ready General Zaroff.” “I see, splendid! One of us will be a meal for the dogs the another will sleep in this excellent bed. On guard, Rainsford.” (Connell pg 22) This helps to see that General was being rude by trying to kill Rainsford for his game. Also he didn’t care what

In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” the author, Richard Connell, does an outstanding job of portraying the bizarre adventure of an insane, however experienced hunter, General Zaroff. The protagonist, Rainsford, another experienced hunter from New York City, appears on General Zaroff’s island, explores, and eventually encounters with Zaroff. They introduce themselves, settle down, and begin to talk. During the talk with the general, Rainsford soon learns that the General was not only a hunter; but a murderer as well. Zaroff has lured and ceased many sailors to his island to play a game. Although, they did not hunt with the General, the General hunted them! Zaroff claimed that hunting “had become too easy”, therefore, hunting began

The scene that is most important in “The Most Dangerous Game” is the scene when General Zaroff and Rainsford are eating dinner together. This scene starts off with Rainsford and General Zaroff eating dinner in the dinning room of Zaroff’s chateau. The dinning room’s architecture and design gave off a regal, midevial feel, as if it had belonged to a baron during the 9th centery. The room was a large and beautiful with a high ceiling and oak paneling on the walls. The walls were lined with the heads of the most massive and perfect animals ever seen; the heads of lions, bears, elephants, and more, all caught and killed by General Zaroff. There was an extensive, rectangular table, large enough to fit 40 people; it was veiled by a gorgeus linen table cloth and was set with the most exquisite silverware. Their meal was

After the General allows small glimpses into his psyche, the fact that he is a disturbed person is temporarily forgotten about as the battle between him and Rainsford begins. In “Hunters in the Snow”, the situation with the shooting occurs early on, but the main focus of the story then transfers to the characters' and their issues for the remainder of the story. Rainsford is the typical hero: He is clever and moral, as opposed to Zaroff who is immoral. Though he claims to be "a beast at bay," Rainsford has now fully reverted to hunter mode, swimming across a small bay to Zaroff's chateau to arrive there before the general can make it back through the jungle.… out the shadowy outlines of a palatial chateau; it was set on a high bluff, and on three sides of it cliffs dived down to where the sea licked greedy lips in the shadows”. Rainsford claims that no animal can reason and when he realizes what Zaroff is doing, he calls it cold-blooded murder. Zaroff retreats to the chateau, assuming he has won the game. The General explains, "hunting was beginning to bore him," and reveals that he had to invent a new animal to hunt, one that must have "courage, cunning, and, above all, it must be able to reason. Rainsford survives, winning the game. A story, which relies on action, coincidence and surprise, is precisely the motivation that Connell needs to create a memorable commercial fiction. Rainsford is given the impression that General Zaroff is a wealthy and prominent hunter. "

General Zaroff is similar to Rainsford because they are both intelligent, and Zaroff shows this in the story because of his up-bringing and past experiences. This is seen in the story when it says “I, luckily, have invested in American Securities, so I shall never have to open a Tea room in Monte Carlo, or drive a taxi in Paris.” (Connel 48) This proves Zaroff is intelligent because he foresaw the downfall of the Russian economy, and heavily invested in said American Securities. However, Zaroff is different than Rainsford because he is powerful, which he shows when he explains his quarry to Rainsford. An example of this is seen in the story, which states “To date, I have not lost” … “The most elementary sort of problem” (Connel 50.)This proves Zaroff is powerful, because he fears nothing during the hunt. If anything, he thinks it gets quite boring. Zaroff is also different since he can be described as serious, because of his history with the hunt. In the text, this shown when it says “Hunting was beginning to get boring! And hunting, remember had been my life. I have heard that in America, business men often go to pieces…” (Connel ?) This proves Zaroff is about the hunt because it has sparked a new, welcoming,

General Zaroff’s cool headedness adds to the various textual evidence that he is not, in fact, insane. When he is introduced to the story, he praises Rainsford's hunting ability with a seemed preparedness. Rainsford observes that the General seems to read his mind at times. He is prepared for every question that Rainsford has, and even answers some that were never asked. His actions seem calculated to make Rainsford more comfortable with him, however, as a fellow hunter, Rainsford observes, “whenever he looked up from his plate he found the general studying him, appraising him narrowly.” This makes Rainsford uncomfortable, sets him on edge for the information that Zaroff is about to reveal. During the hunt, Zaroff

In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game”, General Zaroff is characterized as a cold blooded, devious, and murderous man. Zaroff shows little remorse for human life as he does not care that he kills hundreds of sailors.When he is talking to Rainsford, he says this, “I hunt the scum of the earth.”(49)Rainsford is horrified by this, as most other humans would be. Zaroff does not seem to bother how he kills his victims, and he does not even give them a fair chance. Zaroff says multiple times throughout the story that he values his dogs more than the humans he kills. He treats them like livestock, training them and feeding them well, until eventually he makes them play his game, which is nothing more than an entertaining way to kill the lowest

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

In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” written by Richard Connell the story is mainly about richard finding out that general zaroff hunt humans. At first richard finds hunting humans a problem because he considers it murder but then close to the end rainsford wants to turn the tables and hunt General Zaroff because he has found the fun in hunting humans. This paper is being written because their was a difference in the characters in the movie and the book and this paper is going to explain those differences. For instance in the book you can tell that General Zaroff and Rainsford were way more passionate about hunting. The book even goes as far to say that Rainsford loved hunting like a sport and that all he did was hunt , but in the movie He is too worried about Eve to focus on the true issue at hand. The characters have a difference in the way the act when comparing the book and the movie. This side of the argument can be proven because there were things in the story that didn't even happen in the book. For instance in the movie there were two people that never appeared in the book. One was a female named Eva and the other was a man and nobody even knew his name. On the other hand in the book there was only the main characters , General Zaroff , Rainsford , Ivan , and Whitney. Another statement that will prove my point is that in the book Rainsford was playing the role of the fox when General Zaroff was hunting him which

When they start to talk about hunting later, Zaroff talks about how he used to hunt since he was five, and then joined the army years later, hunting more animals as the years went by, until they became too easy for him. Zaroff then talks about an ideal animal, saying, “I wanted the ideal animal to hunt. So i said, what are the attributes to an ideal quarry? and the answer was of course, it must have courage, cunning, and, above all, it must be able to reason,” (8). Another is Zaroff mainly hunts for the wrong reason. When Zaroff has been hunting for most of his life, animals became less of a challenge for him, and decided to hunt for humans. Rainsford, who has also been hunting for a long time, was doing so to publish books and tell stories of what he’s done. Later on while they talk about hunting the next day, while Rainsford accused Zaroff for murder, Zaroff is endangering basically innocent sailors, and explains, “Sometimes and angry god of the high seas sends them to me.” When he turned on the lights to show Rainsford, he explains, “They indicate a channel, where there’s none; giant rocks with razor edges crouch like a sea monster with wide-open jaws. They have crush a ship as easily as crush this nut,” (9). So he uses a machine which no one could see, then crush the ship to bring them on to the

The setting of the story is dreamlike; the magnitude of Zaroff’s wealth is unrealistic, and the lengths he goes to kill people are unbelievable. He even has a “‘training school… in the cellar’” (Connell 9) where he trains humans to be better prey. This takes the reader away from the real world. The theme that humans lose their innocence with experience and time is nothing new, and affirms conventional views of the world. When Zaroff cites that his “‘whole life has been one prolonged hunt” (Connell 7) as his reason “hunting was beginning to bore [him]” (Connell 7), it re-enforces an overdone theme. There is a strong element of suspense throughout the story, starting with the mentioning of “a God-foresaken place” (Connell 2) and continuing when Rainsford is hiding in a tree and “The general’s eyes had left the ground and were travelling inch by inch up the tree.” (Connell 13). Scenes like this, where the reader does not know what is going to happen next, create a tension and suspense characteristic of commercial fiction. The fanciful setting, commonplace theme, and strong element of suspense make Connell’s story best designated as commercial

The main character which is Rainsford is a big-game hunter, Rainsford doesn’t care about his prey. All he wants is to kill and hunt. Now from that point of view, readers can see the little bit of insanity in Rainsford by all that aggressive hunting stuff that he does. Rainsford was on a yacht and fell off of it, he ended up swimming to a rocky shore which was called Ship-Trap Island. This island was all about hunting which basically what Rainsford is, a hunter. Before Rainsford fell from the yacht he was with his friend name Whitney, saw an island which was the Ship- Trap Island, this island was a bad and unlucky place for many thing that happened. As Rainsford and Whitney were passing the island, Rainsford said, “I hold the jaguar guns have come from Prudey’s. We should have some good hunting up the Amazon. Great sport, hunting” (Connell, 1). Throughout the part when Rainsford is on the island he saw the general and his name was Zaroff. Zaroff was those types of general that always wants to win, Zaroff read Rainsford’s hunting book and told him “ I’ve read your book about hunting snow leopards in Tibet, you see”(4). As for Rainsford all he wants is for him winning the game. The only thing that could make Rainsford escape is to hunt and try to win, when actually Zaroff wants him to lose. As days passed by, the insanity of