Essay Comparing The Most Dangerous Game And The Cask Of Amontillado

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Human Violence today is at its all time high and people today are becoming more ruthless towards human lives. Killing others without any regret at all and in stories the violence only escalates to the extreme. This Essay will be discussing two stories that have the most inhumane plots that have ever been introduced in a story. How exactly does “The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell compare and contrast to “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe in terms of Characterization, Plot, and Theme?
The Author of The Cask of Amontillado did not have an easy life. Poe suffered from Chronic financial trouble- well as alcoholism- for majority of his life(The Owl Eyes.com). In Fact, his history is where he got the idea for Montresor Personality …show more content…

The idea of Poe’s Story of revenge may have been heavily inspired on a quarrel Poe had with two other authors. However, Fate was much more harsh on Edgar Allen Poe then it ever was on Richard Connell. Richard Connell lived a fairly normal life. He wrote various novels, plays, short stories, and screenplays in Hollywood movies and he was a prolific writer in the first several decades of the twentieth century(Encyclopedia.com). The Most Dangerous Game however, had remained one of his best stories he had written, remaining as popular as it had been since its initial publication in 1924.
General Zaroff from “The Most Dangerous Game” and Montresor from “The Cask of Amontillado” both have mysterious back stories and a very interesting view on life and the organisms living it. General Zaroff is a manipulator, a sadist, and an intelligent fellow, whose view on human life …show more content…

Before Rainsford was trapped on Zaroff’s island, he held no sympathy for the animals he ruthlessly hunted and killed even telling his partner Whitney, “ You are a big game hunter, not a philosopher.Who cares how a jaguar feels.” However, during his time on the island while he was being hunted by General Zaroff, he knew then what it felt like to be a jaguar, running for its life(The Cask of Amontillado, page 78). Fortunato however was too trusting of Montresor and it costed him his life. Right off the bat, he got himself drunk and went with Montresor without question. He is a smart mouthed, cocky man who had done something to Montresor to get him after his blood and he had succeeded, dieing slowly in a very brutal way, in a way, he brought this onto himself for trusting Montresor too much and far too

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