The Most Dangerous Game Analysis

The works “Song of the Powers,” “Consolations for Unpopularity,” “The Most Dangerous Game,” and The Imitation Game presented new, insightful ways to view power. There are a couple of overlapping messages and themes that the works portrayed about power. Reading the literature and watching the film can develop the way that one regards power.

The works show that power can be gained and held through fear, influence, or the truth. These three powers are starkly different. Power gained through fear has no emotion behind it. People obey power due to fear because they have no choice. Something bad may happen to them if they choose not to listen to the person in power. On the other hand, influential power is the power that people choose to

He would threaten the lives of those he held hostage on his island to maintain his power. Since General Zaroff had access to the weapons, he could make his prisoners do anything he wanted them to do because they were fearing for their lives. He got them to agree to be hunted because their was a minute chance that they would make it off of his island alive compared to no chance at all. In their afraid state, the prisoners gave General Zaroff a large quantity of power. General Zaroff turned the extreme terror his prisoners were facing and turned it into dominance over his large

Power is most often used to destroy others instead of working together for the greater cause, especially when one feels threatened that his/her power may be overtaken. For example, in “Song of the Powers,” each superpower, the stone, paper, and scissors, was primarily focused on destroying the other two major powers that were posing as threats to the amount of power they held. They would have had ample potential if they united and worked together, but they were too caught up in destroying each other. Also, in “Consolations for Unpopularity”, Socrates was picking apart the structure of society as well as who was powerful and proving them to be illogical. The government must have seen him as a threat because he was executed. In “The Most Dangerous Game,” General Zaroff and Rainsford could have gotten to know each other and exchange hunting tips. Instead, General Zaroff hunted Rainsford for the fun of it. Finally, in The Imitation Game, Alan Turing’s fellow workers were aggravated at him that he was spending all of his time building a machine that they did not think would work. Meanwhile, they were wasting away their days trying different enigma combinations, hoping to get lucky and choose the right one. Rather than yelling at Alan for making his machine, the workers would have made a better use of their time if they united with him. Overall, many people see uniting as a loss of power