I bet you will kill it with your pistol. In the story, “The Most Dangerous game”, the same situation has existed between two men, Zaroff and Rainsford. Rainsford changed his hunting theory after he experienced the most dangerous game. At the beginning of the story, Rainsford shows a cold-hearted altitude toward to the animals he has hunted. We can see it in his conversation with Whitney on board of the yacht He, who is cruel at beginning, thinks that the world is made up with two classes: “the Hunter and the Huntees”.
Rather than see right through this trick, Zaroff heads to his home (23). Since this will eventually lead to his death (23), Zaroff chose to give up on the most challenging hunt of his lifetime. Why did Rainsford slay Zaroff? The possibilities are endless, but what is
Characterization is the act of creating and developing a character and they can be both direct and indirect. General Zaroff, a Cossack, is handsome, well educated, conceited, immoral and above all a savage hunter. He tells Rainsford of his invention of a new animal to hunt, because he was bored with the typical sport of hunting. He explains that this invention is one that can match his wits because it can reason. Zaroff believe that there are men of lesser value, and calls them ,“… The scum of the Earth-sailors from tramp ships-lascars, blacks, Chinese, whites, mongrels- a thoroughbred horse or hound is worth more than a score of them.” Rainsford comes to understand he has no choice but to play the game.
23) Zaroff might seem like a nice guy at the beginning of the story, however he turns out to be a really cruel man. The only thing that gives him pleasure is hunting men. “I hunt the scum of the earth- lascars, blacks, Chinese, whites, mongrels- a thorough bred horse or hound is worth more than a score of them.” (pg. 18) Zaroff has planned on hunting Mr. Rainsford. “Your brain against mine.
Fear makes people do crazy things. In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell and the movie “Quarantine” people face adversity that forces them to fight for themselves by all means. The characters in both, the short story and the movie show that facing difficulties makes people stronger as they begin to value their lives. For instance, the main character in the short story- a big-game hunter from New York, falls off a yacht and swims to an isolated island in the Caribbean, where he is hunted by a Russian aristocrat. The hunt presents him with a lot of unpleasant surprises, but he does anything it takes for him to come out alive.
Violence is shown in ‘The Most Dangerous Game’ between Rainsford and General Zaroff during General Zaroffs hunt. Rainsford eludes General Zaroff twice once where he trapped him in a Malay man trap and when he used a Ugandan hunting trick which ended up killing his mute servant Ivan. The fight between General Zaroff and Rainsford although it wasn’t described also shows violence. General Zaroffs dies when he is served to the dogs while Rainsford has the most magnificent sleep on General Zaroffs bed. In ‘Quarantine’ violence is shown throughout the movie by the bloodthirsty zombies killing and being killed.
The narrator in ATTH, killed because he claimed the old man’s eyes resembled that of a vulture’s and that he felt uncomfortable because he also claimed that whenever they fell on him, his “blood ran cold”. Though the motive was not because of hatred or wealth; “I loved the old man…For his gold I had no desire”, it was more than just his eyes that the narrator despised. He could have used a quicker method of killing, instead of haunting the old man for eight days, and enlisting fear into him till his last breath. “I knew that that he had been lying awake ever since the first slight noise…His fears had been ever since growing upon him.” The protagonist in each literature share the same selfish and irrational characteristics; to take away a good leader from it’s people and replace it with a dictator is a selfish and irrational act. Taking away someone else’s life
In the beginning, they are both hunters, Rainsford hunting animals and Zaroff hunting humans. Then, in the middle, Zaroff stays a hunter, but Rainsford becomes the huntee, or the hunted because Zaroff decides to hunt Rainsford since he has hunting experience and his game of hunting humans will be more exciting. Finally, at the end, it switches and Rainsford becomes the hunter once again and Zaroff becomes the huntee since Rainsford sneaks into Zaroff's room in his house and kills him, so he can win the game and end it once and for all. Also, during the actual "game", you find out that they both are very knowledgeable about hunting, so much that they both know foreign hunting tricks. Rainsford makes a couple of the foreign hunting tricks just to find out that Zaroff easily identifies them.
Critical Analysis on: A Sound of Thunder In all of the assigned readings, I found a remarkable connection to Ray Bradbury’s, The Sound of Thunder. There is undoubtedly a powerful and underlying theme in this fictional satire that cannot be disputed. That being, the delicate balance between man and nature, and the detrimental need to preserve every aspect of our fragile ecology. In a masterful effort to support this ideology Bradbury writes to life an image of his character Eckel; an avid fan in the sport of hunting who places little value on species preservation. He places this man in a unique scenario of time travel in which Eckel and two other hunters, will have the opportunity to hunt for the most savage pre-historic reptile known to man.
We speak of destiny or fate, as if it were some external force or moral order, compelling him against his will to certain destruction." Most readers have felt that after the initial crime there is something compulsive in Macbeth's murders; and at the end, for all his "valiant fury," he is certainly not a free agent. He is like a bear tied to a stake, he says; but it is not only the besieging army that hems him in; he is imprisoned in the world he has made. Northrop Frye stresses the connection between the witches and fate: The successful ruler is a combination of nature and fortune, de jure and de facto power. He steers his course by the tiller of an immediate past and by the stars of an immediate future.