Rainsford is justified in killing General Zaroff because Zaroff wanted to
General Zaroff is similar to Rainsford because they are both dangerous and Zaroff show this in the story because he followed the hard traps. This is seen in the story when it says, “following the trail with sureness of a bloodhound came General Zaroff (pg.54). This shows General Zaroff is dangerous because he followed dangerous traps. Howeever, Zaroff is different from Rainsford because he is carless which he shows when he hunts humans. An example of this is seen in the story, which states “I had to invent a new animal…
And why not?” (Connell 388). This shows Zaroff hunts and Purges on innocent humans for sport, and is heartless for not caring
One of the most important conflicts in “The Most Dangerous Game” is man versus self with General Zaroff being overconfident, resulting in his own death. In the story General Zaroff, in multiple occasions has the upper hand and could kill Rainsford, it keeps him alive because he believes that he could just hunt him again later. That plan fails and Rainsford with his instincts outsmarts Zaroff and kills the hunter when he least expects it. General Zaroff gets himself killed by prolonging his hunt for Rainsford when he could have killed him on multiple occasions. “The hunter shook his several times, he straightened up and took from his case one of his black cigarettes; its pungent, incelen like smoke floated up to Rainsfords nostrils.
“The Most Dangerous Game” Contrast paper The most dangerous game by Richard Connell states that there was a guy named General Zaroff who believed in hunting humans. Also there was a man named richard who was a book writer and they both had different opinions. But what the General didn 't know was that rainsford was that was very very smart.and that the book and the movie had two different sides to the story. There is a movie and and a book and the book and the movie are very different. In the movie some people will say that rainsford was dumb founded because when general Zaroff was about to hunt them rainsford
Although he can process that human beings have feelings, that doesn’t stop him from committing violence against them. Adding a villain in the story makes the plot summary more memorable and interesting; it also creates a thought-provoking story. In the end, Rainsford’s assumption is accurate; Zaroff is indeed a psychopath, labeling him conceited, unstable, selfish, pretentious and a swindler. Overall, just because someone owns an island and wears nice clothes doesn’t make him or her a good person; how someone acts and treats others is the way to tell the type of person he or she
Since Zaroff is hunting humans, one of them is most likely to die. Murder can not go unpunished. Rainsford would most likely have died if he didn’t kill Zaroff. Some may say that one should never kill no matter what. Well, if Rainsford himself never killed Zaroff, he would have died.
To begin with General Zaroff should go to jail because he murders innocent people . His problem is that he murders innocent people like they are animals . He lures them in , keeps them captive and ask to play a game . He mentions to Sanger Rainsford that he needed a new ANIMAL to hunt and that hunting animals
“I am strong, I hunt the scum of the earth”(17). He only kills them because he wants to hunt something that can reason, something that can change its mind when faced with a life or death situation. “But they are men,” said Rainsford hotly. “Precisely,” said the general”(17). Zaroff is an apex hunter, and he demands the ultimate prey.
Characterization of General Zaroff In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell the character of General Zaroff is characterized as being a thrill seeker. When General Zaroff explains to Rainsford why he hunts people instead of animals Connell writes, “No thrill left in tigers, no real danger. I live for danger, Mr.Rainsford” (5).
“The Most Dangerous Game” written by Richard Connell, is about General Zaroff hunting people for pleasure. This story examines whether or not killing people is acceptable. Some people see hunting animals as murder, General Zaroff believes that hunting is not. When General Zaroff takes the lives of the people he hunts, he has a life on his hands. General Zaroff takes the wrong approach in pleasuring himself by taking innocent lives, while Rainsford only hunts animals because he thinks hunting is immoral.
A reader's response of The Most dangerous Game Characterization: The antagonist of the story, General Zaroff, doesn't come in until the 4th page of the story, when his butler answers the door. General Zaroff, invites the protagonist in for a meal, they sit and tell stories, of hunting, something they both have in common, General Zaroff tells stories of his military background. Due to this we can assume he is a round character, a man with military background, who just wants to spend the rest of his life in peace and hunting on his private island, but that is far from the truth. He has the heads of the animals on his wall, from this we can infer that he is a skilled hunter and is proud of it.as the protaginist and Zaroff talk Zaroff tells him
The short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell is about hunting and human life, and reveals that those who are being hunted can have an entirely different perspective on hunting. For example, when Rainsford hears about how General Zaroff hunts humans he says “Good God, General Zaroff, what you speak of is murder” (Connell, 25). This supports the theme because Rainsford is relating the hunting to murder, and its much lower level of acceptance in society. General Zaroff changes Rainsfords view on hunting by turning the tables on him and hunting him. Another example is when Rainsford is escaping from Zaroff before he gets hunted, “I must keep my nerve” (Connell, 31).
In “A Dangerous Game” Rainsford is a hunter who is on a yacht, in the Caribbean sea on his way to the Amazon to hunt jaguars. On his way he ends up falling off his yacht into the warm waters of the Caribbean and as he swims in the direction he thinks his yacht should be he ends up coming upon land. As he is discovering this new land that he comes upon a house that is more like a castle than a house to him. He ends up meeting the man who lives inside and ends up being hunted by the man, and in the end, ends up getting a new perspective on how he looks and feels about hunting animals.
Millicent faces a man versus man conflict in “Initiation” when she is assigned Beverly Mitchell as her big sister. Beverly is the toughest sister and Millicent immediately finds herself being annoyed by her. Furthermore, Beverly does not seem to care about Millicent at all during the initiation, simply treating her as a servant and even disliking her slightly. As soon as Millicent reaches Beverly’s house, Beverly orders her around, giving her an almost malicious tone. She labeled Millicent as a “gopher” to which Millicent found “degrading, like being given a number.”
