Summary Of Most Dangerous Game By Richard Connell

In 1924 a short story appeared In Collier’s weekly, which was a popular newspaper during that time (“The Most Dangerous Game Introduction”). This story was written by a man by the name of Richard Connell, a native man of New York State, graduate from Harvard, and military veteran from World War I (“The Most Dangerous Game”). This story is of great suspense, horror, pure weirdness, and most of all much entertaining to the reader. Despite the great story overall it was, Connell wrote this story with other intentions of referring to real life problems of the time that may be related to problems to current day. The story focuses on a character by the name of Rainsford. Rainsford is a big game hunter that is very popular all over the world for his skills at hunting. At the beginning of the story he and his friend are on a journey to Rio de Janeiro
This story is not only very entertaining, it has much more meaning to it. Connell is believed to have intended to put ideas into our head and question civilization itself. Zaroff was a cocky, largely arrogant man with the philosophy that he believed there was no different value between humans and animals. He targeted people as he said they were “I hunt the scum of the earth--sailors from tramp ships--lassars, blacks, Chinese, whites, mongrels--a thoroughbred horse or hound is worth more than a score of them” (Connell 70). It is said that he is a nicely dressed handsome gentleman, but he has a lust for hunting anything that he believes is less powerful than he is. Many people today have this same philosophy of hunt others that are less of power than them, not for survival but for the enjoyment of having that power. This is not only referring to hunting animals or to murder other humans, but also just for powerful people with the intent to bring down others for their enjoyment and the need to continue to increase that