Fear Of The Huntie In Most Dangerous Game, By Richard Connell

Fear of the Huntie Do animals feel fear when they are hunted? Most hunters would respond with no and that they are just animals and don’t know any better. That is what the hunter Rainsford said from the short story “Most Dangerous Game” By Richard Connell. But in the story Rainsford learns the answer to the question in a way so horrific that it changes him forever. Is the world only made of of two classes- the huntie and hunter? The “Most Dangerous Game” answers this is a bizarre way. For example there is a Hunter is the story that is crazy but considers himself civilized. In the story it says, “God makes some men poets, some he makes kings, some beggars. Me he made a hunter. My hand was made for the trigger.”(Connell Pg 223)This was Zaroff

General Zaroff, what you speak of is murder.”(Connell Pg 227)Rainsford is speaking up to Zaroff and Zaroff did not like this so decided that if Rainsford isn't going to be on his side and hunt humans with him, then he might as well hunt Rainsford. Even Rainsford is the huntie now, and yet he said that the animals that you hunt actually don't feel fear. He had the option to be in the hunt and beat Zaroff in his own game or he could get torture by Ivan another Cossack that was with Zaroff. Rainsford picked the hunt because he atleast has chances of surviving it other then being torture to death. Now it is a battle of two good hunters against each other and to see who came out alive. Rainsford learned that even the huntie feels fear when they are being hunted and that he was wrong in the beginning of the story because he has felt the fear of being hunted.Even though Rainsford survived and beat Zaroff this really did change him and open his eyes about the world and the fear that is felt by

But in the short story Zaroff said to Rainsford,”Tonight said the general we hunt-you and I”(Connell Pg 228)This was a real eye opener because Rainsford is a hunter but yet now he the huntie because General Zaroff is planning on hunting him. It’s not just animals the are being hunted now it is everyone even the humans and if human are being hunted the there is no real top of the line hunter.General Zaroff doesn't even feel bad about it because he believes that he is strong and that all the rest of the humans are weak. He says that the weak is made to pleasure the strong, so he uses hunting people as pleasure for himself. No one or anything is safe anymore because now everything is consider a huntie. In other words there is only the hunties, because nothing is safe