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Comparing Shrek And The Most Dangerous Game By Richard Connell

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In the Dreamworks film, Shrek 3, Shrek starts a family with his wife, Princess Fiona although he is known for a very monstrous ogre everywhere he's ever made an appearance. It takes Shrek some time to accustom to the fact that he is a father and people do not see him as a scary man because he now has kids. Unfortunately, Shrek does not want to accept that he is not viewed as a frightening figure anymore and that his ogre reputation has been abolished. However, throughout the movie Shrek reveals character traits through the trials he goes through as a father which gives him a new reputation. Shrek reveals that he is very caring, loving, compassionate, and considerate person through the experiences he underwent. Likewise, in the short story, …show more content…

Additionally, General Zaroff hunts everything that washes up on his island, Rainsford being one of the victims which consequently takes him lots of character to survive. Throughout the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game,” written by Richard Connell, Sanford Rainsford’s character is revealed as he undergoes trials throughout his journey being pitted against his host, General Zaroff, in a fight for his life.
In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell, Rainsford is wise and self sufficient enough to help him get by the hounding of General Zaroff. In the beginning of the story, Rainsford unfortunately finds himself being shipwrecked on Ship Trap Island. Consequently, Rainsford is automatically being hunted in a fight for his life with the owner of Ship Trap Island, General Zaroff. …show more content…

When General Zaroff took Rainsford into his home they communed about hunting. Furthermore, Rainsford became aware of the fact that Zaroff know desires to hunt humans, and not animals anymore. Consequently, Rainsford states, “‘I can’t believe you are serious, General Zaroff. This is a grisly joke… Hunting? Good God, General Zaroff, what you speak of is murder… Thank you, I’m a hunter, not a murderer (25).” This quote suggests that Rainsford is strictly opposed to hunting humans which reveals that he is a man of moral standing due to the fact that he refuses to hunt humans. In addition to that, Rainsford prefers to put his life on the line and risk it instead of hunting humans for just a sport or hobby. Moreover, towards the end of the story, Rainsford encounters himself with a decision to either jump into the sea or let General Zaroff get a hold of him and kill him. Connell states, “Twenty feet below him the sea rumbled and hissed. Rainsford hesitated. He heard the hounds. Then he leapt far into the sea (34).” Evidently, this quote reveals that Rainsford had to be valiant rather than fearful. With this in mind and all things considered, it also took Rainsford to be brave and ready to face danger since he was jumping twenty feet into a rumbling sea. Near the final events of the story, Rainsford hides in Zaroff's house to get back at him for good and end

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Rainsford sets several traps as he is chased harming Zaroff or one of Zaroffs’s men/dogs. He is finally pined and jumps into the ocean from a cliff. Zaroff thinking he has won heads home but Rainsford beats him there confronting him. Zaroff challenges Rainsford saying whoever wins gets

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people are in pain. In the text this is shown when it says “he saw the lean figure of General Zaroff just ahead of him Rainsford made out another figure.. It was the giant Ivan. General Zaroff was still on his but Ivan was not” (pg.53). This shows General Zaroff is selfish because he made I van go first which had killed him.

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In the story “The Most Dangerous Game,” Rainsford was guilty of cold blooded murder when he killed General Zaroff. Rainsford is a man that fall off a boat and landed on an Island called “Ship Trapped Island.” Rainsford heard a gunshot so he knows someone else is there. This when Rainsford mate General Zaroff, General Zaroff is a man who got tired of hunting animals so he hunts humans. Rainsford and General Zaroff ended up in a kill or be killed situation.

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Rainsford is a clever guy. Especially when he is in trouble… In “ The Most Dangerous Game” Rainsford is hopeful, clever, and brave. Rainsford is hopeful because he keeps trying to beat General Zaroff. In the story “ The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard connell, it says “‘He shinned excitedly up a tree and looked back.’

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The sea’s waves took him to the beach of the island and there start another survivor story for Rainsford. General Zaroff refused him to be the hunted after he used to be the hunter. After a nice night, Rainsford had spent it

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The Most Dangerous Game     In the story, “The Most Dangerous Game” two characters, Rainsford and General Zaroff Somehow meet after Rainsford falls off of his yacht and after these two characters meet General Zaroff explains how he plays a game of hunting humans and somehow forces Rainsford to a piece in this particular game. In Richard Connell’s Fictional story, The Most Dangerous game He Demonstrates two characters where one in particular is faced with a difficult task and is able to overcome it and through these events both characters revealed traits in which showed who their true characters were. Both Characters, General Zaroff and Rainsford revealed different character traits through events in the story as it progressed. General Zaroff proved himself to be a clever, smart, skilled, evil person while, Rainsford expressed himself to be intelligent and smart-minded when it came to his encounters with Zaroff. Many events in the story allowed the main characters to show their true attributes.

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The Most Dangerous Game In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, the protagonist, Sanger Rainsford, and the antagonist, General Zaroff, are similar characters. Both Rainsford and Zaroff share common passions, skills and ideology. Initially, there is admiration between both characters, because Rainsford is Zaroff’s hero and Rainsford is grateful for Zaroff being welcome to him. However.

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Zaroff thinks what he does is not murder however, Rainsford thinks it is murder. “Dear me again that unpleasant word.”(70) General Zaroff does not see him killing people as murder, he sees it as sport. Zaroff grows bored of hunting animals so he has moved on to harder hunting. He sees it as him giving the people that wash up on his island a chance at living and making it back home.

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Being hunted Rainsford poses many questions regarding Zaroff and his survival. As stated, “Rainsford second thought was even more terrible. It sent a shudder of cold horror through his whole being. Why had the general smiled? Why had he turned back?”

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When Rainsford begins setting traps, the general also unleashes his dogs. Zaroff sees that his prey has evolved, and therefore he too must change to continue the hunt. When Rainsford survives three days, the general congratulates him, saying he has “won the game”. Rainsford, unamused, does not smile. He responds hoarsely, “I am still a beast at bay.

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In Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game,” Sanger Rainsford is forced to test his survival skills while he is intensely hunted by an experienced war general named General Zaroff. In this story, Rainsford exhibits some very helpful characteristics like his resourcefulness, his strategic planning, and his ability to reason. As a result of Rainsford’s questioning the validity of General Zaroff’s hunting methods, he ended up playing in the game. Although I believe Rainsford is a very helpful, interesting, and dynamic character, at the end of the story, he must give up his own personal morals to win the game.

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Also, General Zaroff is an extreme hunter and doesn’t find pleasure in hunting regular animals. Zaroff says the most dangerous game is humans because they have the ability to reason. Rainsford is going to be hunted and is given a certain amount of time to survive. Moreover, while Rainsford is being hunted Zaroff

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Therefore, Rainsford won’t ever hunt again because he is traumatized by his experiences on the island. With all his experiences on the island Rainsford became traumatized. For example when Zaroff tells Rainsford about the type of hunting he does, which he hunts actual men. “Hunting? Good God, General Zaroff, what you speak of is murder” (Connell 23).

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However, it does not change for the better. In the middle of the story when he finds out Zaroff hunts fellow human beings, to Zaroff's surprise, Rainsford’s thought and reaction is utter shock and disbelief. “‘But you can’t mean-’ gasped Rainsford. ‘And why not?’”(10). Zaroff knowing Rainsford was a great hunter he hoped that Rainsford would accompany him on a hunt; however, Rainsford accuses him of being a cold-blooded killer.

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Firstly, in the story The Most Dangerous Game, Rainsford is justified in killing General Zaroff because on the island the only way to live is if the stranded people hunt or the stranded will in contrast become the ones being hunted. In the beginning of the story Rainsford is talking to Whitney about jaguars. Whitney is stating that the jaguars must feel some sort of feeling like fear or terror but in contrast Rainsford states that the jaguars have no understanding of feelings. Then Rainsford is put on a island where he symbolically represents the jaguar and General Zaroff would symbolically represent the hunter.

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