The Most Dangerous Game Zaroff Character Analysis

Rainsford says to Whitney, "the world is made up of two classes- the hunters and the huntees" (Connell 216). Rainsford doesn't realize it but in time he becomes similar to the blood-thirsty man who hunts "the most dangerous game." To understand the content of this essay one must be informed on what kinds of people are involved in The Most Dangerous Game. Sanger Rainsford is a hunter who is travelling to Rio on a yacht. He is travelling with his friend Whitney so that they can both hunt the animals living in the Amazon. Rainsford sees the island that they are passing by and he leans too far over the edge. Once he hears gun shots he decides to swim to the island where he meets General Zaroff. General Zaroff hunts "the most dangerous game" which

Thesis: General Zaroff is the main Antagonist in The Most Dangerous Game. General Zaroff shows an affection for chasing, a frail and unremorseful personality, General Zaroff also shows pride and arrogance. These three character attributes

Zaroff makes sure that he can play the game with an opponent but he also makes sure that the opponent does not win. He thinks he is playing fair but the truth is, he does not play by the rules, as players of a game should. Zaroff uses his wealth to get whatever he wants to please himself. He has a butler named Ivan, who is a Cossack, which are strong yet deaf and dumb Ukrainians. He also knows his way around the island so he will know which direction to go and he has his home as a safe house. He has about a dozen dogs for even more protection and a gun. As a result, if anything might happen to Zaroff while playing the game, he will result in receiving help from his advantage.

Then Zaroff explains the rules of the game to Rainsford; the prey is given food, clothes, a knife, and three hour head start, if Zaroff doesn’t catch his prey within three days they’re is declared the winner and is sent home on a boat, so long as Zaroff’s game is not shared with others. If Zaroff catches his prey before the three day are up, they get kills and their head gets mounted on his wall. Then Zaroff tells Rainsford that anyone who refuses to be hunted gets tortured by Ivan and that he hasn’t lost the game yet because he is extremely skilled and uses his dogs if the game starts to look like a loss. Without this scene Rainsford wouldn’t have learned what “the most dangerous game” is; he wouldn’t have figured out why Zaroff created and plays this game, how the game is played, what happens before and after the game, and what happens to the people who refuse to play. Therefore without this scene the story wouldn’t make sense; without this scene there would be no story. That’s why this scene is the most important scene in “The Most Dangerous

The Book the most Dangerous Game is about Rainsford who is a hunter that got stranded on an island. He looks around the Island in search of other people so he can get food and a place to sleep for the night. While searching he is able to find a manor of sorts that has General Zaroff, a man who says to him that the only way to escape the island is to beat him in a hunt. What kind of characters are Rainsford and General Zaroff though? Both General Zaroff and Rainsford are similar in a few ways but they are both very different kinds of characters.

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

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

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.

Ryan Derry Mr. Jones English 9 13 October 2015 Who is General Zaroff? Imagine being hunted and attacked by a near perfect, possibly better, reflection of yourself. Rainsford fought through this against General Zaroff and his cossack partner in crime, Ivan. In the amazing short story,” The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell, General Zaroff displayed to the audience that he is an unruffled, yet deceptive man. He exposes that he is unruffled by staying completely calm, even in the face of danger.

In the story "The Most Dangerous Game", the two main characters, General Zaroff and Rainsford, met on an island and from there the conflict takes off. Rainsford is a world renowned hunter who has hunted game all across the world. He has also written several books about hunting, which General Zaroff had personally read. General Zaroff, on the other hand, was Russian nobility. He and his assistant, Ivan, were both Cossacks who had fled Russia after the Russian Revolution. Zaroff, who had hunted since he was young, then used his fortune and skills to hunt exotic game all across the world. Eventually, he became bored with animals that lacked the ability to reason, so he turned his hunt toward the one animal who could reason, humans. He then

“The Most Dangerous Game,” centered around Sanger Rainsford, an American hunter, separates characters through distinct views and symbolism. Richard Connell inscribes the mind and thoughts of Rainsford as he fights against a seemingly invincible opponent. While illustrating Rainsford’s feelings, Connell describes the characteristics of various personalities such as Whitney, Rainsford’s hunting friend, and General Zaroff, the antagonist. The remainder of this essay will outline the differences between the characters Connell introduces in a short story,

After capturing the sailors on the island he was able to track them down easily on the island. Zaroff say, ““To date I have not lost,” he said. ”(7). This shows that General Zaroff knows his island amazingly well. To aid him Zaroff also has a pack of dogs, “One almost did win.

In the dire situation of being thrown into the hunt, when most would have reacted irrationally in blind panic, Rainsford regains his calm quickly and immediately sets out to create a complex trail, telling himself repeatedly “I must keep my nerve.” (6) Moreover, it is clear from the conversation between Zaroff and Rainsford regarding the general’s new, disturbing hunting sensation that Rainsford has strong morals and values human life. Rainsford’s scruples give him the bravery to heavily imply that Zaroff is a murderer and to question the general’s claims of being civilized, even as Zaroff becomes increasingly annoyed (4). However, Rainsford’s hunting career made him, above all, a survivor, and it seems that his morals are conditional to his own survival. This is shown most clearly at the frankly shocking events that unfolded at the end of the story, when Rainsford leaps off the cliff and finds his way back to the château to lurk in Zaroff’s room, and upon the general’s return, they dueled to the death (8). A darker aspect of Rainsford’s character is revealed in the last three paragraphs, and he even refers to himself as a cornered animal

When the game starts to come to an end, important choices are starting to have to be made. Whether or not Rainsford should stay on the island when trying to escape is an example of a choice that is ideal to his continuation as a character. Rainsford does decide to stay and return to the chateau before Zaroff makes it back. When they meet each other in one of the bedrooms, Zaroff recognizes his defeat as he says, “I congratulate you. You have won the game.”

We see this from the beginning of the story, Zaroff is cold, cruel, and dishonest from the start of the story until the end we can never truly trust what he says. We see examples of his dishonest behavior when he tells Rainsford that he won’t use dogs then he inevitably does. Rainsford on the other hand is a more compassionate individual although he hunts and kills animals for sport we see early in the story he questions these actions when he realizes how the animals might feel when he is put in the same situation as them. Despite the fact he is actively trying to kill Zaroff during the story, he’s only doing it for self-defense even at the end when he willingly chooses to duel and kill Zaroff we can still see he is trying to protect the life pf the next poor soul to come to the island by ending Zaroff’s reign of