skewed. For example‚ Rainsford uses the same traps during the game in both the short story
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murder verses hunting‚ and the characters‚ General Zaroff who is a crazed man-hunter and Mr. Rainsford‚ his prey. Irony is essential to the plot of the short story‚ “The Most Dangerous Game”. It can be recognized multiple times throughout the duration of the story‚ particularly within the literary elements conflict and characterization. The conflict is contradictory or off in many instances. Being that the hunter‚ Rainsford‚ becomes the hunted. Zaroff identifies the conflict as he states: “ You’ll
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Dangerous Game” Essay Hannah Thompson Rainsford washes up on the shore of General Zaroff’s island. He meets Zaroff and finds out that he has been hunting humans for sport. When Rainsford refuses to hunt with Zaroff‚ he turns against him. Now Rainsford is the one who is being hunted. This story is trying to point out that life is made of the weak and strong and in the end‚ you become as dangerous as the thing you once feared. First off‚ Whitney and Rainsford speak about the idea of weak and strong
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the name of Sanger Rainsford. As Mr. Rainsford gets stranded on the Island of Ship Trap Island‚ owned by a Cossack by the name of General Zaroff‚ he discovers a game that he dares not play. As General Zaroff eases Rainsford into his “more dangerous game” (8)‚ Rainsford “[wished] to leave this island at once” (15). After many hints he realizes that the biggest game had to be humans‚ which were brought in by the great seas or hashes of light leading to humongous rocks. After Rainsford denies Zaroff’s
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delayed by action. For example‚ in the conversation by Rainsford and General
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hunter named Rainsford‚ who is from New York‚ falls aboard and swims to the island. He gets trapped on the island of a sadistic fellow hunter General Zaroff‚ who bored with conventional prey‚ has come to see humans as the only quarry worthy of his skill‚ hunting man. Plays his hunting games with Rainsford. Connell creates suspense through grammar‚ cliffhangers and holding the resolution until the last sentence. Richard Connell uses grammar to create suspense. For Rainsford‚ when he was
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a person hunting not animals‚ but people. General Zaroff remarks‚ “It had become too easy.” This means that the General wants an animal who has courage and the ability to reason. Rainsford is shocked at the idea of murder‚ and condones it immediately saying‚ “Hunting? Great Guns‚ General Zaroff‚ what you speak of is murder.” Since the majority of stories do not speak of a person hunting people‚ “The Most Dangerous Game” should be read. Rainsford appears to be shocked at the idea of murder‚ saying
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happened. Perhaps the two most common inferences would be that either Rainsford realizes that he is becoming like Zaroff‚ or Rainsford realizes that he is nothing like Zaroff and takes comfort in this. There is much evidence that supports both of these theories. First of all‚ one of the possible endings is that Rainsford realizes that he is becoming like Zaroff and grows a desire to hunt humans. Right from the start of the story‚ Rainsford shows in his conversation with Whitney that the quarry is meant
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played perfectly by Marshal Will Kane from High Noon‚ and hunter Sanger Rainsford from "The Most Dangerous Game." High Noon is a western movie about a newly married Marshal by the name of Will Kane‚ who finds out that his enemy‚ Frank Miller‚ is coming back to town from jail‚ to get revenge and eliminate him since Kane put him in jail. "The Most Dangerous Game‚" is a short story about a hunter by the name of Sanger Rainsford who realizes the true emotion of the hunted
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friends. How does this apply to this story? Read and find out: An example of Zaroff being wealthy would be when he had offered Rainsford the clothes‚ and just by the way Zaroff’s room and house looked demonstrates the wealth that Zaroff obtained. They also owned three hound dogs. General Zaroff was very wealthy because him and Ivan both lived in an elaborate mansion. They had plenty of everyday necessities to spare with Rainsford‚ like water and food. They had plenty
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