Comparing Lord Of The Flies And The Most Dangerous Game Comparison Essay

The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding is about a group of boys who crash land on an island and are forced to survive off the island. They struggle to maintain civilization, but in the end most turn to savagery lead by a character named Jack. In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell a hunter also crash lands on an island and is hunted by another big game hunter who has decided to hunt the most dangerous game known as humans. Rainsford then has to battle a savage character named Zaroff similar to Ralph in Lord of the Flies who have to battle Jack. Rainsford also has to live off the land to survive against Zaroff, so do the boys in Lord of the Flies. The Lord of the Flies and “The Most Dangerous Game” have many similarities and differences which include the setting on an island, the battle of man versus nature or man using nature to survive, and the characters from each text like Roger and Ivan or Jack and Zaroff. The setting of both the novel and short story is on an island, but the difference is how they get to the island. In “The Most Dangerous Game” Rainsford arrives

Roger and Ivan are both known as the savages that kill at their leaders’ command and then feel no guilt. For example, Ivan’s boss, Zaroff describes him, “like all his race, a bit of a savage". In Lord of the flies Roger’s character evolves into savagery, but Ivan’s start out as one. This is best realized when Roger begins to throw rocks at people with the intentions to harm as well as to miss and when the civilization is finally deteriorated, then he kills a character. Jack and Zaroff are both the antagonists’ leaders. In Lord of the Flies, Jack leaves everyone else and becomes the chief of those “who thinks Ralph oughtn’t to be chief” while Zaroff's position is declared as he commands Ivan and Ivan