Foreshadowing In The Most Dangerous Game By Edgar Allan Poe

How would you like to make $50,000 a year all while sitting in bed? Every minute someone writes a prose, it could make them thousands. Anyone can do it; they just need the right role model. Richard Connell, a paper editor who wrote in his free time, got his stories published in Saturday Evening Post which immediately won him much acclaim. Connell and many other authors like him make exceptional idols to those who already have a job and wish to earn some extra cash. But, who wants two jobs? Edgar Allan Poe, the first great American author to live solely off his words, makes for a remarkable idol to all who wish to merely write for a career. In two of these authors most prominent literary masterpieces “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell

At the beginning of Poe’s electrify story Montresor “vowed revenge” on Fortunato foreshadowing that he will do just that (58). Likewise, in Connell’s enigmatic prose, Rainsford makes a living off hunting, yet when he arrived at the island “He did not recognize the animal that made the sound” despite being a professional tracker and all his skill as a hunter (12). This ultimately foreshadows the unaccustomed game Zaroff hunts on his island for the animal turned out to be a human. The family crest in Poe’s work also foreshadows his revenge. The quote “Nemo me impune lacessit” and the lurid graphic in which a “foot crushes a serpent rampant whose fangs are embedded in the heel” display that if someone betrays Montresor, he will get revenge for “Nemo me impune lacessit” means “No one can attack me without being punished” (Poe 60). The foreshadowing refuses to end there and in Connell’s prime foreshadowing the reader must know their bible characters, for Zaroff has many dogs and “Lazarus; he was the finest hound” (12). Lazarus, a figure risen from the dead in the Gospel of John, foreshadows the return of Rainsford after his fatal jump. Even though both author’s pieces show exemplary usage of foreshadowing, Connell’s ability to embed another literary element into his foreshadowing makes his work a better model of using foreshadowing to add meaning, however the perspective of a piece makes or breaks the meaning for it determines how the reader understands the