General Zaroff from the short story the most dangerous game is different than most other characters. He is a middle aged male who is a very experienced hunter. Zaroff is very intelligent, energetic, talented in a couple different ways, but also inconsiderate. The main thing that General Zaroff wants is a harder game to hunt, a game that will give him competition since he has mastered everything else. When he meets Rainsford and tells him about his idea for the most dangerous game, he tells him that he is going to hunt him.
The next example of iron is when General Zaroff reveals his unnerving secret: he hunts humans! Rainsford says, “Hunting? Good God, General Zaroff, what you speak of is murder,” with disgust thickening his tone (13). This is suppose to catch the reader by surprise. In the middle of “The Most Dangerous Game” Zaroff
Rather than ending the “game” as the victorious hunter as Zaroff would have liked, the murderer becomes the hunted, Rainsford’s victim. Although a wise and brave man, Rainsford falls right into the trap the general has set up for him. The two men prove to be equal in a few aspects: intelligence, strategy, size, skill, and experience, while their breach lies in question of morality. What is murder? Zaroff and Rainsford are on the same page when it comes to hunting animals; they do not view hunting as morally wrong.
The only good human being is a dead one.’ Snowball is a ruthless leader who is committed to the revolution, so committed in fact that he indicates he’d be willing to die for Animal Farm. This arrogance towards the distressed horse Boxer and the commitment he displays mirrors that of Leon Trotsky in Russian society, it is this lack of empathy that differentiates him from the others animals, yet his hope and high ambitions ultimately contribute to his exile, but these traits are initially what made him a good leader. Orwell is using the character of Snowball to reflect the ideas that essentially, knowledge and ruthlessness is power. Trotsky was intelligent and ruthless just like many
He painted his face like a barbarian. When he saw his face, he "began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling" (Golding 64). Jack lost interest in civilization, which is why he didn't feel guilty for not keeping the fire going and help improve the survival of the tribe. He lured the group of boys by the promises of meat, play, and freedom. Jack represents the irrational nature of the boys, while Ralph represents common sense.
Crazy Horse’s forces didn’t have advanced arms, but he had better wisdom and tactics of war. He defeated extremely arrogant Custer. While at the end of the poem, Custer said that he would be reborn whenever dictators need him or whenever movie-goers want to watch him. This is an ironic and humor ending. Through this ending, Alexie indicates his view on Custer: he was standing on the side of dictators; he was a bad guy.
They appear to go through the traditional murder of one of their own; for the mere preservation of tradition. Jackson highlights this in the following passage, “no one like to upset even as much tradition as was represented the black box.” (Jackson 251) Whereas in “The Most Dangerous Game” the antagonist character of General Zaroff decides that the natural progression of sportsman hunting inevitable means the hunt of human prey. He literally states in order to satisfy his need to hunt he “invented a new animal to hunt.” (Connell ) In both stories the narrator limits what the characters are actually thinking and their true motives. In “The Lottery” having this information would prematurely divulge the context of the actual “Lottery” and in “The Most Dangerous Game” having knowledge of General Zaroff true intentions and the truth about his new animal; would reveal of the conflict and content of the story. One would venture to say that most of town ship in The Lottery was anxiously anticipating the “lottery”.
The reflection story I choose is called Why I Hunt: A Predators Meditation by Rick Bass. The short story tells of Bass’s love of hunting for both elk and deer. However, the significance of the story goes far beyond merely killing an animal for its meat, as it tells mostly of the emotional struggle he feels as a hunter. Bass acknowledges the fact that he is a predator but wonders if his insatiable need for meat will somehow affect him in a later life. He questions whether or not he will have to pay for all of the innocent animals’ deaths that he has caused.
Hayley Sabatini Period 3 Lord of the Flies The symbolism of Jack in William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies”, is a predator. Jack believes himself to be a hunter, and thinks he is better than most of the other boys. In his own way of ruling, he acts like he is a tyrant. Although Jack is a boy who tends to fool around and is not very serious, sometimes he can be respectful. “We’ve got to have rules and obey them.
First of all the storyline and plot are completely different because they are at different locations and they are about totally different subjects. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a mystery/suspense type of story. The Most Dangerous Game is mostly an adventure or action story. Mr. Rainsford is also slightly different from Dr. Jekyll because at the end of the story he overcomes his fears of General Zaroff and faces him in a challenge and wins, so that General Zaroff gets eaten by hounds. General Zaroff is also different from Mr. Hyde because Zaroff gets joy from hunting people but he doesn’t care about when he kills them.