...Rainsford Justified Rainsford was justified in killing Zaroff because the general killed several people before attempting to kill Rainsford. Many more people would die if Rainsford didn’t kill him. While Rainsford and the general sat at the great table in general Zaroff’s palatial chateau. The two men start to talk about hunting and how the general has found a new animal to hunt when Rainsford figures out that he is hunting humans. So then Rainsford confronts him by saying, “But they are men” and the general replies with, “that is why I hunt them. It gives me pleasure” (Connell 4). This quote proves that the general hunts humans for pleasure and that he is crazy. As a general rule, no human with a right mind hunts humans for pleasure. They...
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...Rainsford was justified in killing General Zaroff and these facts will prove why. After Rainsford found General Zaroff’s enormous building on the palatial chateau he went in and was treated very well due to them knowing who he was by his book. After a while of talking Rainsford exclaimed, “I can’t believe you are serious, General Zaroff...”. “ Hunting? Great guns, General Zaroff, what you speak of is murder!” (Connell 9). Zaroff got tired of hunting animals because he was perfect at it. He lived by the sea and had the technology to crash ships and he took the people who were on them as his “game”. By Rainsford killing Zaroff, he took one life but he saved many lives by doing this. If Zaroff lived many more innocent people would die....
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...property, this act of murder is accepted as human rights. If we wish to distinguish between the two, we must look at underlying causes of such heinous actions. In Richard Connell's short story “The Most Dangerous Game” and Saki’s short story “The Interlopers,” the main character General Zaroff and Ulrich von Gradwitz are alike in the following ways: Both men engaged their prey on his own land, both men stalked a human being, and both men met their demise prematurely. Both men hunted on their own land, searching for a trophy unlike any other. One of the common characteristics between these two men were the fact they chose their own land as their hunting grounds. General Zaroff scoped in on a big game hunter, Sanger Rainsford, and his desire for this trophy outweighed all his other trophies combined. On the other hand, Ulrich von Gradwitz chose vengeance over a trophy. He longed for justice and wished to have all his land undisputably. If both men were to receive what they longed for, they must take the life of a fellow man. This led to the attempted murder of two men, one...
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