...Rainsford’s Most Dangerous Game Good vs. evil is a widely known prompt in stories, movies, TV shows, etc. The villains and the heroes fighting to be the victor. It’s a dangerous game to play. Although for Mr.Rainsford, General Zaroff’s game is the most dangerous he will ever play. Throughout the time Rainsford spends on the lost island, he shows some traits that prove to be the undoubtful reasons he was able to break free from General Zaroff’s “hunting” trip. In The Most Dangerous Game, by Richard Connell, Rainsford is a intelligent, moralistic, and strong willed character who shows us that if you stick to your beliefs, good will always triumph over evil. Rainsford is an extremely intelligent character in the story, The Most Dangerous Game....
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...Essay ENGL 102 Composition and Literature APA Abstract Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” and Thomas Wolfe’s “The Child by Tiger” have many similarities in the stories. Two men face conflict of good and evil, but in different perspectives because the two types of literature are wrote differently. “The Most Dangerous Game” is escape literature; it’s adventurous and unrealistic, written for pleasure, while “The Child by Tiger” is interpretive literature it teaches about the world around us and helps one understand deeper issues. In both stories, the characters show different sides to themselves they show their good side and fool people thinking they are someone they are not and eventually show their evil side. Fiction Essay In both “The Most Dangerous Game” and “The Child by Tiger” both men are portrayed very civilized and kind, but both authors show how people can change in an instance and become murderers. In “The Most Dangerous Game” Sanger Rainsford is the story protagonist he is an intelligent renowned hunter who believes the world consist of only predators and pray. As he is traveling on a yacht for Rio de Janeiro with a friend named Whitney she points out a mysterious island that people named Ship-Trap Island. Whitney becomes tired and wants to go bed, but Rainsford stays ups to have another smoke. While he is up, he hears gunshots in the direction of the island. Rainsford leans to far over and falls overboard, he calls for help no one hears him to save...
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...The Most Dangerous Game The story The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Cornell states that “ The world is made up of two classes-- the hunters and the hunted.” The hunters are strong and are looking for the hunted. The Hunted are week and are hiding from the hunters. Hunter and hunted do not get along, the hunted are like lions and hunted are like zebras always looking behind every corner to look for a hunter because they are afraid. In the story people were hunted by the General because he got tired of hunting plain animals like lions zebras and other animals. The hunted was mr. Rains ford, he was hunted by the General. In the story the General hunted animals but then he moved on to hunting people because he became bored of animals...
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...Crime and Punishment Outline I. Introduction A. “What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind -- then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should be." Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment. B. In the short stories, The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell and The Destructors by Graham Greene, we will look at the similarities and differences in the characterization element of fiction as they relate to the crimes committed in the stories. II. Body A. The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell 1. Characters 2. Qualities and Motivations B. The Destructors by Graham Greene 1. Characters 2. Qualities and Motivations C. Comparisons of the Short Stories 1. The Most Dangerous Game crime 2. The Destructors crime III. Conclusion A. In the end of these two stories, “justice” was served. B. As the protagonists of the short stories, Rainsford and Trevor succeeded in “punishing” General Zaroff and Mr. Thomas for the crimes they committed while they in turn committed crimes themselves. Crime and Punishment “What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should be." Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment. When a crime is committed usually punishment...
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...“The lottery” and “The Most Dangerous game” are similar, both writer stress on conflicts and struggle main character experience in the story to protect their lives. The Introduction of the stories tells the setting, the villagers of a small town gather together in the square on 27 June to participate in a lottery that took two days. While the most dangerous game, it took place on an island with few people. Thesis statement is that a tradition can be detrimental to your lives. According to “The Lottery” written by Shirley Jackson, it was about a villager. In fact, about 300 people lives in the villages who might have forgetting tradition lottery which were play long time age and blindly accepted the game without asking question about the rules and regulation to enable all villages understand the consequence of the game. Where as in “The most dangerous game” written by Richard Connell in an island. Few people participated in the game. The general, zaroff along with his friend Ivan, as well as his dog, team against one person to play a hunting game. Both people understood the danger of the game very well, but one refuse to play while the other person finds pleasure in playing the game. The Major Character “The Lottery” written by Shirley Jackson it seems that the characters were very happy to participate in the events. The villages were rejoicing to play the game; however, the game has been around for years, but some villages has stop playing the game. Prior to the lottery,...
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...essay examines the villains from “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell and “The Destructors” by Graham Green. By comparison and contrast, it is found that Trevor and General Zaroff possess different temperaments and behavioral traits, and yet have many similarities in method, background, and morality. Both villains are motivated by boredom and a need to express their superiority. Many parallels can be drawn from “The Most Dangerous Game” byRichard Connell and “The Destructors” by Graham Greene, especially between Trevor and General Zaroff. Both of them are flat characters and both are the villains of the stories in which they reside. Trevor is the protagonist of “The Destructors” and General Zaroff is the antagonist of “The Most Dangerous Game.” Trevor and General Zaroff posses different temperaments and behavioral traits, and yet have many similarities in method, background, and morality. Both villains are motivated by boredom and a need to express their superiority. General Zaroff is an older, white-haired gentleman who is affable, hospitable, and good natured, while Trevor is a young gang member who is brooding and silent. General Zaroff is a hunter, and as such is a man of action – he enjoys the chase, the hunt. The boy prefers to sit quietly while planning and scheming. Trevor does not show even “the smallest flicker of glee” (Greene, 1954), while Zaroff openly shows his amusement with the game by smiling when he finds Rainsford in a tree, and by verbally stating his...
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...Irony, Conflict and Theme in “The Most Dangerous Game” and “The Destructors” English 102 Composition and Literature Spring 2016-D15 LUO Belinda Joseph–L27213212 APA Thesis Statement and Outline “The Most Dangerous Game” and “The Destructors” Thesis Statement: Connell and Greene reveal with the use of irony, conflict and theme, mankind’s human nature, exposing man’s most primal instincts and desires through their characters. I. Irony A. The hunter becomes the hunted. 1. In a conversation about Jaguar hunting with Whitney, Rainsford exclaims, “You’re are a big game hunter, not a philosopher, who cares how a jaguar feels?" (Connell, 1924, p.1). 2. Rainsford is in the place of the prey and Zaroff has the advantage. “It was Rainsford who knew the full meaning of terror”. (Connell, 1924, p.11). 3. Roles reverse and Rainsford kills him in the end. “He had never slept in a better bed”. (Connell, 1924, p.13). B. Unexpected behavior. 4. Trevor the son of an architect becoming a gang leader. (Greene, 1954, p. 1). 5. Moral about Old misery’s money “We aren’t thieves....Nobody is going to steal anything from this house.” (Greene, 1954, p. 6). 6. Food and a blanket is taken to Old Misery “We don’t want you to starve Mr. Thomas” (Greene, 1954, p. 10). II. Conflict C. Rainsford struggle with “Man vs. Self” 7. Rainsford’s survival to stay alive. 8. Rainsford’s wits and state of mind...
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...sappy love story. In the book, The Most Dangerous Game written by Richard Connell, General Zaroff is hunting Sanger Rainsford throughout the woods. It starts out by Rainsford falling off a yacht and swimming to an island that is said to be haunted, he finds himself in front of a huge mansion where General Zaroff lives. Zaroff later tells Rainsford he hunts humans because it is a greater satisfaction than hunting animals. Rainsford refuses to hunt with Zaroff so as punishment, Zaroff hunts Rainsford. In the story, The Most Dangerous Game, Zaroff’s character is very knowledgeable, devoted and demanding. Throughout The Most Dangerous Game, the main character Zaroff demonstrated that he was a very knowledgeable person. Even though he is secluded on the island, he is still in the know of all the famous hunters in the world. “It is a very great pleasure and honour to welcome Mr. Sanger Rainsford, the celebrated hunter, to my home.” (17) Zaroff portrays knowledge when he admits to Rainsford that he has read all books on hunting in three different languages. “I read all books on hunting published in English, French and Russian.” (18) Lastly, when Zaroff makes his way through the woods at night, this is showing he knows his way around the island. “The general could follow a trail through the woods at night; he could follow an extremely difficult trail; he must have uncanny powers. Zaroff is a very knowledgeable man in the story The Most Dangerous Game and it is demonstrated well throughout...
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...“The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell is a short story about conflict. The two main characters are the world renowned hunter, Mr. Sanger Rainsford, and Russian Cossack General Zaroff. In the story, Rainsford is on a friend’s yacht, and while he is on the yacht he is smoking a cigar. He hears a sound that intrigues him. He is curious because it sounded like a gunshot. Curiously, he hops on the railing. While teetering on the yacht’s railing, his cigar falls out of his mouth. He tries to catch it, but it falls into the ocean and he falls off the railing. While struggling to keep afloat in the ocean, Rainsford yells at the top his lungs hoping that someone aboard the yacht will hear him and tell the captain to turn the yacht around. However,...
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...about Mr. Sanger Rainsford is that he is a smart and quick witted man. I think he is smart because he sets all these booby traps for Ivan and Zaroff, something other people may not do. I think he is quick witted because he came up with the booby traps so fast and they were efficient and they worked. (a) The most dangerous game, according to Zaroff, is to hunt human beings. (b) I do not think Zaroff is civilized because he is hunting real life humans beings. I don’t believe a civilized person would casually hunt a human. It’s not civilized behavior. (a) Rainsfords feels that hunting animals is acceptable. Because he doesn’t care how the animal feels once he kills it. He doesn’t feel guilty. (b) Rainsford doesn’t approve of Zaroff's hunting method. Because he is hunting people and Rainsford believes it’s murder, while Zaroff views it as a sport. That nothing is wrong with...
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...same. As "The Lottery" deal with winnings by stoning people, but when the winner are chosen it is a different ball game. I. The Lottery Fictional story setting is normal people from a small village. A. The Lottery story takes place on the sunny summer day on June 27th. B. The place represents normal business places such as post office, schools, and a bank. C. The story takes places around ten o’clock in the morning. II. The main characters are the 300 people of the village. A. Mr. Summers is a jovial man that conducted the lottery. B. Tessie Hutchinson, who was stoned. C. Old man Warner, who was the oldest person in the village, III. The people from the village seem happy to be gathering around for the lottery that takes up to two hours since it was only about 300 people in town. IV. The most dangerous game story settings take place late at night in a yacht on an island, known as Ship-Trap Island. A. General Zaroff’s home. B. Jungle V. The main characters are the General Zaroff’s and Sanger Rainsford. A. Whitney B. Ivan VI. Sanger Rainsford thought hunting animals was all fun and games until he become the victim, and he had to fight for survival while playing a mouse and cat game with General Zaroff's. Analyzing the two short stories, The Lottery by Shirley Johnson and The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell, It seems that both stories have no moral of what is right, from what is wrong. The fictional...
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...MLA Nick Barbir Mrs. Horne ENGL 102-B19 6 February 2012 The Most Dangerous Game vs. Young Goodman Brown In two of the most well-known short stories, “The Most Dangerous Game” and “Young Goodman Brown”, there are ironic similarities portraying evil between their settings, characterization, and plot. I. There happen to be different settings in both of the short stories but both of the settings adapt well with their plots. a. In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game” the setting takes place in the early 1920’s after the First World War on a small tropical island somewhere in the Caribbean, known as Ship-Trap Island by the sailors. b. Whereas, in the short story, “Young Goodman Brown” the story is set in the late seventeenth century in Salem, a small town northeast of Boston in Massachusetts around the time of the Salem witch trials. II. The characters in both of these short stories have close similarities to each other as they both demonstrate good and evil traits, which help the plot flow. a. The main characters in “The Most Dangerous Game” are Sanger Rainsford, General Zaroff, Whitney, and Ivan. b. The main characters in the story “Young Goodman Brown” are Goodman Brown, Faith, The Old Man/Devil Figure, The Minister, Goody Cloyse, and Deakon Gookin. III. The plot of the short stories, although they are different, both exhibit evil conflicts that develop throughout the story. a. The plot in “The Most Dangerous Game” is about hunting. b. In...
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...“The Most Dangerous Game” and “The Interlopers”, are short stories that are suspenseful, as well as breathtaking. The setting in both of these stories impact the plot by adding conflict and excitement. Both stories have a setting that tests their mental and physical strength. However, the setting in both are so different it leaves the ending unpredictable. In the two stories that we read both of their settings caused conflict. In “The Most Dangerous Game”, they talk about how tropical and vibrant the rainforest is, “The vegetation grew ranker, denser, insects bit him savagely. Then as he stepped forward his foot sank into the ooze.” The complex setting cause Mr. Rainsford to have greater challenges, as he had to fight against the animals, the vegetation, and more, while still trying not to get hunted. On the other hand, in “The Interlopers” one monumental thing happened to the setting that changed the entire tone of the story, “A fierce shriek of the storm had been answered by a splitting crash over their heads and eve they could leap aside a mass of...
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...General Zaroff Character Analysis In “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, General Zaroff is shown as insane, cool, and as a savage. Zaroff is shown to be insane in the story when he says he got bored of killing animals so he kills humans.’’My dear fellow, there is one who can.’’ said the general. “But you can’t mean--” gasped Rainsford. “And why not?” asked the general (Connell 69). This quote shows that Zaroff is insane because during this part, he confesses he kills people for sport. During the story, Rainsford is also Cool because he lives on his own island with a mansion and a buttler. He shows that he is cool when his butler answers the door for Zaroff and then he comes down his stairs and introduces himself and Ivan. The...
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...The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell 1. Sanger Rainsford- A big-game hunter who has survived numerous near death experiences such as fighting on the frontlines in World War 1 to hunting unique and skilled animals in some of the most remote and enticing places in the world. General Zaroff- Zaroff has been a prominent hunter since his childhood. His first experience was learning to shoot a gun, and using it to kill his father’s prized turkeys. Later in his life, he commanded cavalrymen in Russia, and this helped him familiarize himself with the horrors of warfare. This experience made him accustomed to death and making him lose the ability to distinguish humans from beasts. Now he has bought an island and uses it to fulfill his hunting...
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