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General Zaroff Morals
In this story, General Zaroff doesn't realize that what he is doing is wrong. What he is doing is killing people, and he seems to think it is the same as hunting normal animals. He got “bored” of normal animals, because they couldn't reason with him. Humans give him a more exciting hunting experience, according to him. Zaroff doesn’t understand that it is wrong to kill humans, and he shows this misunderstanding when he says “There is one [animal] that can [reason]” and Rainsford says back “But you can’t mean… I can’t believe you are serious”, To this Zaroff replies: “Why should I not be serious? I am speaking of hunting... I had to invent a new animal to hunt...I found one... it supplies me with the most exciting hunting... the value of human
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