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Comparing Most Dangerous Game 'And' Porphyria's Lover

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Could you believe that someone could kill someone in cold blood and not be fazed by it? In the poem Porphyrias Lover and the story The Most Dangerous Game, the two main characters kill someone they love or the person who helped them. But had seen nothing wrong with it.The Most Dangerous Game is about this hunter who lives on a secluded island. Then this other less experienced hunter falls off his yacht and is washed up at the more experienced hunters house and doesn't see the trouble that lies ahead. In the poem Porphyria's Lover there is this man (narrator) who is in love with this woman so much and wants to marry her, but the woman doesn't feel the same way. The thesis I thought Connell (author for Most Dangerous Game) and Browning (author for porphyria's lover) were trying to convey is that even when someone acts nice and kind they can always have a dark hidden side.

Connell and Browning both characterise Zaroff and Porphyria's lover as kind people at the beginning of the stories. In the Most Dangerous Game Connell has Zaroff characterised as a …show more content…

In The Most Dangerous Game Zaroff is revealed as this insane person who hunts humans. This situation comes up when Zaroff mentions this game that he wants to play with Rainsford, but the game he wants to play, is this game Rainsford has 3 days to survive on the island while being hunted by Zaroff. Just as in The Most Dangerous Game, Porphyria's lover kills the woman he loves and he believed it was what she wanted him to do. The situation where the lover was revealed of his sadistic side is where he is thinking of what to do with the thought that she basically worships him, and then he thought of something to do. So he chokes her to death with her own hair. He does this because he felt it was what she wanted. He felt that she wanted him to kill her which is why he felt he didn't do anything

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what you speak of is murder” (Connell 5). Rainsford is very astonished by this, if you couldn’t tell. The reader can infer that this isn’t the only time that Zaroff has killed a person because he made a game of it. Usually, when someone commits a murder, they are punished

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Everyday people make decisions, some are made during life or death situations. Not everyone has to go to through a circumstance that is life or death, but some people do. Richard Connell once composed a fictional short story about a life or death situation. In Richard Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game” large game hunter Sanger Rainsford is tested in the following ways: strong versus the weak, the value of life, and becoming what he fears. Nevertheless he made it through these challenges, but he also learned a few life lessons while doing so.

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“There are only two classes in the world: the hunter and the hunted.” This theme is expressed and questioned by the story The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell. But is that theme in the movie? Both the book and the movie The Most Dangerous Game are both about a man named Zaroff hunting the ¨most dangerous game¨; humans. Though the book and the movie have the same general plot, the integrity of the story is affected by the many differences and similarities in the areas of the initiating event, characterization, and plot between the story and the movie The Most Dangerous Game.

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It is very obvious that the antagonist of The Most Dangerous Game, General Zaroff, has no care for the human life. He states, while explaining to Rainsford this concept of a game that he plays, that “Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong, and, if needs be, taken by the

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In the short story “Most Dangerous Game” written by Richard Connell The main characters are Zarroff and Rainsford are similar but also different many ways. These two characters traits played a major role in the effect of the story. The two men are very similar because they have a violent passion for hunting. Neither of the characters have empathy or sympathy for the creatures of their prey.

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In comparing and contrasting there are many different ways to dive deeper to why text is different from a movie. If we look at the imagery, plot and the some of the characters there is similar and differences in both film and movie. In both versions of “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell and the film the most Dangerous game, Hunting and many other factors played a major role for the antagonist against the protagonist and both showed many ways of suspense and adventure that is behind each corner in one of many literature pieces written by of Richard Connell. When zoning into both The Most Dangerous Game text and The Most Dangerous Game film the details and imagery that forms the story and film are different.

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Personally this story was “Hunger Games” meets “Cast Away” because the main character Rainsford is on a deserted on a mysterious island and he's being hunted by a hunting expert General Zanoff. Richard Connell uses imagery throughout the story to enhance the setting and the characters. Conell sets an eerie and uncertain mood right off the bat. “...trying to peer through the dank tropical night that was palpable as it pressed its thick warm blackness in upon the yacht.” (page 17)

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This was the final step of his plan. When there are only two other people and him left on the island, he does not have to commit any more murder, for the characters do it for him. They turn on one another. Vera Clayhtorne

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The text does not quite specify what he says to her. Readers can infer it to be a divorce, or he cheated on her. While it could be either one, both answers are not what she wants to hear at all. His actions This lead to her is why she acts the way she does by killing him. While violence is not always the answer, others deal with bad news from their significant other by revenge or just avoiding it until revenge occurs.

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“The Most Dangerous Game” shows how wealth and power can change people as well as starting the downfall of civilization. General Zaroff, is a wealthy, strong man. What he does with his wealth is unheard of though. Zaroff posits that because he is strong and rich, he can do whatever he wants. The thing he wants to do the most, kill humans.

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