...the antagonist General Zaroff in the story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell. Zaroff’s position in the book started when a man named Rainsford found their shelter and needed help. General Zaroff let Rainsford into his shelter and let him have clothes and food. Zaroff then said Rainsford about his hunting career and mentioned such an insane thing to do. He said Rainsford that he likes to hunt the scum of the earth more than animals. Zaroff made Rainsford play a game and if dint he was to be executed or hunted. Rainsford played the game and ended it by killing General Zaroff. In this story General Zaroff is a hunter, an insane and quirky character. The first trait of General Zaroff is that he is a...
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...this short story. 4. In this short story Rainsford’s main characteristics shined, and one of his best characteristics is that he is intelligent. 5. The Quote, “Swam……. I found it quicker than walking,” (Connell 112) helps shows Rainsford’s intelligent. 6. The quote helps show that Rainsford was in a tough position, being hunted on the island, but he thought through his plans of survival. 7. Rainsford shows his intelligent by using the resources available to him. 8. The quote, “I’ll give him a trail to follow,” (Connell 107) shows how Rainsford is trying to lead Zaroff away from his trail. 9. The quote also helps show that Rainsford is wise about his choices on the island. 10. Rainsford’s intelligent shows as he decides to try and use the island to benefit him instead of harming him. 11. Rainsford’s intelligent really shines through in this short story....
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...In “The Most Dangerous Game” written by Richard Connell, General Zaroff is shown as high handed, inconsiderate, and dedicated. General Zaroff is shown to be high handed in the story when he tells Rainsford how he has hunted all his life, has a guy who has been in the Russian army, and is very rich with all the alcohol and food, and clothing he has to offer. Another quote to show his next characteristic is, (Connell,72)“If he does not wish to hunt, I will turn turn him over to Ivan. Ivan once had the had the honor of serving as official knouter”. This quote shows that General Zaroff is pushy because during this part, he is gloating about how he can control everyone who ends up on his island by the stuff he has at his palace. During the story,...
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...were many different hunters in this story to begin with. In the story, Whitney begins to say, “‘We should have some good hunting up in the Amazon.”’ ~ “(Connell 215.)” In this quote, Whitney, who appears to be a hunter, is talking to Rainsford about hunting in the Amazon with new guns from Purdey’s. It also shows that Rainsford is a hunter by, Whitney and himself re having a conversation about hunting jaguars. Rainsford is also a famous hunter, hunting many things and has books written about him. In the story, Zaroff is talking to Rainsford.“‘He made me a hunter.”’ ~ “(Connell 223.)” Zaroff, who says this, is telling Rainsford about how God makes some people into artists or poets, but made him a hunter. Those were the hunters...
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...Finally, general Zaroff is a victimizer and his evil powers are immense. At the table where they ate borsch and filet mignon Rainsford looked up and realized that the general was studying him which made him uncomfortable. As Rainsford and general Zaroff were at the table they started talking about hunting and big game. Rainsford mentioned that the biggest game he ever saw was the cape buffalo. Then the general puzzled Rainsford by saying: “No. You are wrong, sir. The cape buffalo is not the the most dangerous big game. Here in my preserve on this island, I hunt more dangerous game” (Connell 5). General Zaroff scares Rainsford by saying this because Rainsford has never seen a bigger game and he is wondering if this game is a threat to him. This...
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...Game by Richard Connell is a short story following Rainsford and his conflicts with General Zaroff. In the beginning of the story, Rainsford falls over the railing of his yacht and swims to the shore of an uncharted island. Travelling through the island, hungry and exhausted, he stumbled upon a large chateau. Inside, he meets the island’s sole owner, General Zaroff; an eccentric, unsurpassed hunter who’s skills in hunting is similar to Rainsford’s. However Zaroff believes that anything is game including humans, an opinion Rainsford strongly opposes. They later engage in a one-on-one hunting match which leaves Rainsford as the winner and subsequently feeds the general to the hounds. General Zaroff is a difficult character due to his swayed characteristics; at one point he is of high-class and thoughtful towards his guests, while he also can be seen as a conceited murderer. These attributes and his serious stance towards hunting leave Zaroff as a complicated person. General Zaroff is a very thoughtful man, a trait that contrasts with his other traits. The first example to show the general’s respect towards others is the following quote: “We shouldn’t be chatting here. We can talk later. Now you want food, clothes, rest. You shall have them. This is a most-restful spot.” Another instance to prove the general’s thoughtfulness is one of Rainsford’s own thoughts. During the dinner he found the general to be a respectable host, one that is very welcoming....
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...Is Rainsford and General Zaroffs personality so different? The Most Dangerous Game is about a man named Rainsford who falls into the Caribbean Sea and meets a man named General Zaroff. In this story Rainsford and General Zaroff are two characters who are different. In “The Most Dangerous Game” Sanger Rainsford can be described as a brave, clever, and dangerous person. Rainsford is brave because he takes and does things on his own even when it’s scary. This is seen in the story when it says “he caught a hold of a springy young sapling and to it he fastened his hunting knife with the blade point down the trail with a bit of grapevine he tied back the sapling, then ran for his life.”(pg. 53) This shows Rainsford is brave because he had a chance...
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...As the great author Richard Connell once said “sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing--with wavelengths, just as sound and light have. An evil place can, so to speak, broadcast vibrations of evil. Connell and Browning use characterization and imagery to show mankind can become so attached to something or someone that they could become psychotic. General Zaroff shows imagery by talking about his house on his island and saying that nobody shall leave. Connell uses the characterization of Zaroff in “The Most Dangerous Game” to show how hunting turned him into who he is now, very psychotic.”if anyone should try to get into my house-or out of it-something extremely regrettable would occur to him. He hummed a snatch of song from the folies bergere.”(Connell P#36) This quote proves how absolutely psychotic General Zaroff really was especially with killing/hunting.Zaroff has a lot of characterization that is used on him by Connell such as him being a hunter and how “his whole life is hunting.” In this quote Zaroff shows kind of what hunting is to him. “My whole life has been one prolonged...
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...In most cases hunting is acceptable when done legally. But in the story “The most dangerous game” by Richard Connell, a man named general Zaroff entraps and hunts shipwrecked sailors. The main character, Rainsford, gets on an island called ship trap island. Rainsford refused Zaroff’s offer to go hunting with him so zaroff decides instead, he will hunt Rainsford for 3 days of running, hiding and setting up traps. In the story Rainsford’s most important traits are that he is brave, cunning and resourceful. In the story, the main character Rainsford is very brave. In the story Rainsford meets a man, he turns out to be a murderer. The man tries to convince Rainsford to go “hunting” with him, but in this case they weren't gonna be hunting deer. In the story it says “Rainsford shook his head ‘No general’ he said ‘i will not hunt’”(pg 10). This quote shows that Rainsford is brave because he knows general Zaroff could kill him but he stands up for what he believes in anyways. The word cunning describes Rainsford in the story “the most dangerous game”by Richard Connell. In the story Rainsford has to escape a man named general Zaroff, who is trying to kill him, for 3 days. He was in the woods and knew he had to throw Zaroff off so he made a bunch of tracks going in all...
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...was about a hunter and a man who fell out of a boat. He than swam to a little island in the middle of nowhere, with a guy named General Zaroff who lived on it. Then Rainsford went into it and meet General Zaroff and found out how crazy he was and he was frightened. He found out that General Zaroff liked to hunt but not animals he liked to hunt men. “Damn it feels good to be a gangsta.” (Geto Boys. Song Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta) After that when he found out Rainsford flipped and was worried. Then General Zaroff decided to make a game with him and he says, “ I have never l. So from this short story you will see that Rainsford gets a in a tough predicament. For this paragraph it will be about who was the hunter in the story. My thought was that General Zaroff was the hunter obviously. Like he says in the short story, “ My hand was made for the trigger my father said.” (Connell, Pg 223) He said this because his way of having fun was by hunting. He enjoyed the rush the power and the fun. He was the hunter he chose to hunt people or men in his case. General Zaroff was naturally a killer. Especially when he tried to get Rainsford and how he made that bet....
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...“The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell is a short story about conflict. The two main characters are the world renowned hunter, Mr. Sanger Rainsford, and Russian Cossack General Zaroff. In the story, Rainsford is on a friend’s yacht, and while he is on the yacht he is smoking a cigar. He hears a sound that intrigues him. He is curious because it sounded like a gunshot. Curiously, he hops on the railing. While teetering on the yacht’s railing, his cigar falls out of his mouth. He tries to catch it, but it falls into the ocean and he falls off the railing. While struggling to keep afloat in the ocean, Rainsford yells at the top his lungs hoping that someone aboard the yacht will hear him and tell the captain to turn the yacht around. However,...
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...hunter/hunted ideology is a prominent component. In the story, General Zaroff actually hunts Rainsford in a sort of game, hence, “The Most Dangerous Game.” Though this story is a clear example of the hunter/hunted complex in action, it is only one example. In another circumstance, the hunter/hunted complex would be irrelevant and therefore absent. In this particular story, a man called General Zaroff serves as the hunter. In the beginning, and even before the game begins, Zaroff boasts about his intelligence against the animals he’d hunted before. One example of his gasconade would be “Simply this: Hunting had ceased to be what you call ‘a sporting proposition.’ It had become too easy. I always got my quarry.(pg 234)” This quote portrays Zaroff’s pride and skill in being a hunter, along with his detachment to the game he hunts. Preceding this event, Zaroff himself states, “God makes some men poets. Some He makes kings, some beggars. Me He...
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...share two conflicts, a struggle for survival. In Jack London’s “To Build A Fire” the main character, not named, thinks in his head, “Without doubt he would lose some fingers and toes and some of his face…” (London 703). In the same manner, the main character, named Rainsford, kills a dog and the “bad guy” says to him “… I’ll see what you can do against my whole pack” (Connell 28). However, the two stories differ in what they struggle against. In “To Build A Fire” the conflict is person versus nature. For example the guy builds a fire and from the spruce tree falls some snow and puts out the fire; to quote “He should not have built the fire under the spruce tree” (London 700). Meanwhile, in “The Most Dangerous Game” the conflict is person versus person which is Rainsford being hunted down by General Zaroff-the “bad guy”- in the middle of a baron island. To quote from General Zaroff “Your strength and stamina against mine” (Connell 24). Secondly, literary item number two is setting. In both stories the setting is set in isolated places. Like in “To Build A Fire” its set in the Yukon in the middle of winter. To validate that “The Yukon lay a mile wide and hidden under three feet of ice” (London 694). Also in “The Most Dangerous Game” the setting is in the Caribbean on an island. To go with that from the story “… even you can’t see four miles or so through a moonless Caribbean night” (Connell 14). Also in contrast with the stories is temperature. In “To...
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...General Zaroff Character Analysis In “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, General Zaroff is shown as insane, cool, and as a savage. Zaroff is shown to be insane in the story when he says he got bored of killing animals so he kills humans.’’My dear fellow, there is one who can.’’ said the general. “But you can’t mean--” gasped Rainsford. “And why not?” asked the general (Connell 69). This quote shows that Zaroff is insane because during this part, he confesses he kills people for sport. During the story, Rainsford is also Cool because he lives on his own island with a mansion and a buttler. He shows that he is cool when his butler answers the door for Zaroff and then he comes down his stairs and introduces himself and Ivan. The...
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...Dangerous Game” to investigate rather hunting humans is murder. Some people see hunting animals as murder, but Zaroff thinks hunting anything or anybody is the same. Rainsford thinks hunting animals is okay, but hunting humans is murder. These two hunters had completely different ideas of hunting and murdering. Rainsford did not like the fact that General Zaroff thought hunting men was right. Rainsford quotes “I cant believe you are serious General Zaroff. This is a grisly joke.” Zaroff said “Why should I not be serious? I am speaking of hunting.” Then Rainsford says “Hunting? General Zaroff what you speak of is murder.” In the story General Zaroff hunts people because he got bored of hunting animals. He liked to trick people with the channels and direct them in another direction which makes them wreck and make them swim to his island Ship Trap....
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