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.
In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, Zaroff and his accomplice, Ivan, hunt an innocent man named Rainsford. Zaroff, a psychopath, intends to have fun hunting Rainsford because he “wanted the ideal animal to hunt”(p. ). After Zaroff states that he wants to hunt an animal that has “courage, cunning, and, above all” (p. ) ability to reason, Rainsford understands that he has no other choice but to kill Zaroff to survive. His motive is similar to a lion killing a zebra as food for survival. Rainsford’s murder is more of a cycle of nature than corruption.
At first we think he may have some mercy when he tells one of his men he wants Jaguar Paw alive and tells one of the warriors off for pushing a hostage off a cliff, but as the story progresses he becomes more and more violent. His son Cut Rock (Ricardo Diaz Mendoza) is murdered by Jaguar Paw as he attempts to kill him and that sends Zero Wolf into a frenzy of wanting to get revenge on Jaguar Paw. He even kills one of his own men for suggesting that rather than jumping after Jaguar Paw into the
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.
The beautiful island becomes a hell at the end of the novel. Finally, when Ralph is escaping from the hunting of other boys, he is saved by a navy officer who takes all boys back to the ship. Towards the end of the last chapter, the passage "Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man' heart, and the fall through the air of his true, wise friend called Piggy" demonstrates the main theme of this novel: man is evil by nature. The three things that Ralph weeps for are the lessons he has on this island: innocent boys become savage; all human beings have evil deep inside their hearts and the fall of science and rationality before the evil of human. These three issues are developed throughout the whole novel with this passage as the conclusion of the main theme - human beings are evil by nature.
Ralph represents the goodness left on the island, while Jacks worst got the best of him. He then becomes very violent “He's like Piggy. He says things like Piggy. He isn't a proper chief.”(Gift for the Darkness, p.138) Jack challenges Ralph whom he calls a coward; Ralph had insulted Jack's hunters as "boys with sticks”. He wants to turn everyone against Ralph so they join his tribe and become hunters leaving Jack in charge and chief of the island.
The mad man killed the old man and then cut him up and put him under the floorboards of the house. In 'The Tell Tale Heart' the main character remains nameless, genderless, and ageless, he thinks that he has done the right thing by killing the old man and that he got rid of the 'evil eye'. The main character is very confident about what he has done and think that he had a very good reason for killing the old man which was, he didn't like the way his eyes looked and because he thought that the one eye was evil. We can see evidence of that in lines 10 - 14 where he says: 'I think it was his eye! Yes, it was this!
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. As the hunters make their way through time, Bradbury begins to foreshadow the underlying plot through his character Travis. Using relevant moments of history and hypothetical situations, this safari leader begins to elucidate the delicate equilibrium of time travel and the ecological need for each hunter to remain on the man suspended path at all times. As the safari progresses, Deckle’s soon realizes that in his wasteful need of sport he has in fact put himself in a dangerous and life threatening situation. At first encounter with the Tyrannosaurus Rex, Eckel's immediately disobeys the safari leaders warnings and jumps from the suspended path; planting his feet into the earth of time passed.
Philosopher Jackues Barzun compares such criminals to wolves. He said : “the uncontrable brute whom I want put out of the way is not to be punished for his misdeeds nor used as an example or a warning, he is to be killed for the protection of others.” Some of the brutes themselves agree with this prescription. Westley Alan dodd, who was executed in 1993 asked for the
Beowulf plunges into the lake and swims for almost a day before reaching Grendel’s mother. They engage in combat, but Beowulf’s sword fails him. He sees another sword among the treasures in the lair and uses it to kill Grendel’s mother. The sword blade melts upon her death but Beowulf takes the sword’s hilt and the severed head of Grendel back to greet his men. They celebrate again later that day and give him more gifts and riches to take back to the Geat nation.