Zaroff In The Most Dangerous Game By Richard Connell

First of all, General Zaroff, shows the reader he is conceited. This is explained throughout the story when the character explains his inner thoughts, and what he does. The text states, “He was a very rich man with a quarter of a million acres in the Crimea, and he was an ardent sportsman.”. This explains how Zaroff thinks he is better than everyone else, because his Father was rich, and a sportsman and he grew up to be just like his Father. The text also states, “With a deep, courtly bow, strolled from the room”. This piece of evidence explains how even what Zaroff does, he acts conceited. Zaroff is acting as if he is

General Zaroff constantly appears all throughout the story, whether it is in what he says, or the activities he depicts, that he has an exceptionally unsteady personality and is to some degree a psycho. For instance, towards the end of the extensive discussion between General Zaroff and Rainsford, General Zaroff says, "I chase the filth of the earth-mariners from tramp ships, lascars, blacks, chinese, and crossbreeds." (pg.

The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell has been a classic among bookworms looking for a short fix since the 1920s. The story is centered around two main characters, Rainsford and General Zaroff who are both worthy hunters. When Rainsford stumbles upon Zaroff, he finds himself participating in a new game, the hunt for his life. With eyes glued to the writing, someone may not even notice the discretely placed allusions. The allusions in this story are used to make connections between the text and the reader.

General Zaroffs sense of cruelty is proven when he explains that he hunts people. In the story, General Zaroff states, “I wanted the ideal animal to hunt,…“So I said, `What are the attributes of an ideal quarry?' And the answer was, of course, `It must have courage, cunning, and, above all, it must be able to reason." (pg #7) Rainsford is quick to point out that no animal can reason but Zaroff replies, “My dear fellow," said the general, "there is one that can.” (pg #7) Zaroff is implying that he hunts

"The Most Dangerous Game", written by Richard Connell, is a very riveting story with two main characters Rainsford and General Zaroff. They have many similarities in their character traits. Their traits had a major impact in the story.

Zaroff is purely unconscious, and has no compassion or remorse for his actions. His demented mind forces him to believe that it is moral to hunt all living creatures, when in reality he is actually murdering a human soul. The general is sadistic as well as arrogant. He is mentally unstable, insane, and he denies the fact that he is committing something as bad as what he is doing. According to General Zaroff, hunting for him has been consumed by boredom and he no longer sees hunting as a challenge. Consequently, he chooses to hunt a certain “creature” with a higher mental stability of the creatures he has hunted before.(Connell 21) As Zaroff became comfortable with Rainsford, he

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.

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,

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 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

To begin, Zaroff and Rainsford can be compared by their most common interest, hunting. Rainford expresses his genuine enjoyment for hunting early on as he states proudly to Whitney, “The best sport in the world.” (Connell 1) When speaking to General Zaroff for the first time, the general seems to already know who he is, justifying it due to his familiarity with Rainsford’s novel on hunting; “It is a very great pleasure and honor to welcome Mr. Sanger Rainsford, the celebrated hunter, to my home.” (Connell 5) This demonstrates Rainsford notoriety for the hunt, as well as Zaroffs infatuation with it. Furthermore, Zaroff appears to be obsessed with the hunt as he displays countless mounted heads/hunting trophies, and dedicates his entire island and life to the hunt. We see this to be further evident based on the similar skill levels displayed by both characters in the hunt. Both men appear proficient in tracking prey, identifying weaponry, techniques in killing prey, and survivalist methods. Rainsford effectively identifies the technique and weapon used by Zaroff when we awaked on the island to evidence of a hunt; “A twenty-two…The hunter had his nerve with him to tackle it with a light gun.” (Connell 4) Later within the hunt, Rainsford evades Zaroff with crude trails (recalling the lore of the fox hunt), techniques and traps learned from people of his travels, as well as logical level-headed thinking. These efforts are noted as impressive but seemingly ineffective to Zaroff , as he finds Rainsford at every turn; tracking his path in pitch black darkness within the heart of the jungle, a feat doubted by Rainsford. Finally, their common experience of war, a key factor in revealing Zaroff’s perception of human life, allows us to compare these characters. Zaroff

That night when the hunt ended, Zaroff’s hounds were chasing Rainsford. He did two things; he made a trap using grapevine and he also leapt off of the cliff into the sea where all the ships, boats, and yachts wreck. “ Then he leaped out far into the sea…” ( Connell 27). Three of the skills I talked about were all used in this short amount of time; his knowledge of hunting he used to make a trap out of grapevine and his knife, his ability to think and move quickly was used to make fast decisions before jumping off the cliff, and his activeness and fit lifestyle aided him in jumping off the cliff and into the sea. If it weren’t for him jumping into the sea, then the hounds would have surely gotten to

General Zaroff is ruthless in his hunt. He hunts sparingly with his prey, dangerous prey. ‘“Here in my preserve on this island, he said.” In the same low tone ”I hunt more dangerous game”’ (Cornell 5). Zaroff is ruthless, because he doesn’t care about the animal he cares about the kill. Even though he is ruthless he is bloodthirsty for his

Zaroff is explained to have “high cheekbones, a sharpcut nose, a spare, dark face - who is used to giving orders -- an aristocrat.” He was very protective of himself and his island when Rainsford swam up to shore, shown by having a pistol in hand pointed at Rainsford. After welcoming Rainsford to his island, Zaroff began having boastful conversations about his hunting experiences. The tone of his voices relays that he is very proud of himself when he mentions that the hunting of tigers no longer interested him. He explained there was no thrill left, no animal had a chance with him anymore, and there was no real danger in the animals that he hunted. He continues on by explaining he shot his first bear at ten years old, and confessed that his wealthy father always praised him for his killings, even when it was his father's own prized turkeys. Zaroff even mentions “[he was trying] not to be boastful” while he was speaking of his hunting experiences, even though obviously he did come off as boastful. Another characteristic about Zaroff was throughout the story, the author kept mentioning his “curious red-lipped smile”, who kept studying Rainsford’s every move. Zaroff’s smile came off as having something wicked planned, but was not going to expose it just

In his short story “The Most Dangerous Game,” Richard Connell uses character to convey General Zaroff’s disillusioned manner, and to show how this affects his ability to act and think reasonably. In the story, main character Rainsford ends up on a mysterious island. After searching the island for life, he comes across a large castle, where he encounters the antagonist of the story, General Zaroff. When Rainsford first enters the castle, Zaroff seems welcoming and hospitable. It didn’t seem at first as though there was anything amiss about Zaroff. He and Rainsford fall into a pleasant discussion, in which they begin to bond over their love of hunting. Their conversation takes a dark turn, however, and it is soon apparent that Zaroff’s passion is really an obsession-- an obsession that turned him into a murderer. Zaroff had grown up a hunter, and had hunted animals all his life. He explains to Rainsford