Literary Elements Of The Most Dangerous Game

Literary Element Analysis The literary element setting can affect the theme of the story in many different ways. As the theme in a story can be different things, the setting of the story can still have some type of impact on the theme of the story. The following stories hold examples of the setting changing or evolving the theme of the stories. In the story, The Most Dangerous Game, the setting impacts the theme. The setting affects the theme because The Most Dangerous Game setting is creepy and dangerous as the characters have to use the environment to hurt others. As this goes back to the theme of where you have to go against your morals to kill others to survive. The quotes on page 11 help support this claim, “With a violent effort,

He knew where he was now. Death Swamp and its quicksand.”-“he heard the sharp scream of pain as the pointed stakes found their mark.”(Connell). In the first quote it helps describe the setting of the death swamp. In the second quote it shows how someone was killed. For example how Rainsford is using his environment to try to kill someone. Though Rainsford does not want to do this, but he has to do this if he wants to live. He kills a dog while he is hiding in a bush nearby, which goes back to one of the themes of where sometimes you have to go against your morals to survive. Another example is on page 14 when the text says “He caught hold of a springy young sapling and to it he fastened his hunting knife, with the blade pointing down the trail; with a bit of wild grapevine he tied back the sapling.”(Connell)In this quote, Rainsford is setting up a trap using the environment surrounding him. He uses this young sapling tree in the hope that it would kill his pursuers who are trying to kill him. As in the beginning of the story he did

Like the dark waters of the liffey, it is describing the water as dark, but in this case it can help with the effect of these certain words. The word dark, sets a gloomy tone over the story and what it is describing. . War is a dark thing and the use of the word in the short story helps depict the somber mood of the subject. These descriptive words of the setting help the author get their message of the theme across to the readers. Another story where the setting impacts the theme of the story is in the Story of an hour. This is because the setting helps build up the theme of freedom. A piece of evidence is in the quote “There were patches of blue sky showing here and there through the clouds that had met and piled one above the other in the west facing her window.”(Chopin 1) The saying “patches of blue sky” usually symbolize hope because it means the sun is shining and letting the light through. The theme of freedom is a good thing and ties in through hope. This theme is helping the reader understand that the death of her husband was not a bad thing. As the story hasn't even started to discuss the theme it starts to show that the theme isn’t as sad as it was from the beginning of the story. A different piece of evidence is in the quote “She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air.”(Chopin 1) This helps