Compare And Contrast Montresor And General Zaroff

If you had the choice of being hunted or being chained up and left for dead, what would you choose? General Zaroff and Montresor both murdered people. Zaroff killed for the game and Montresor killed for revenge. These people both had special and unique ways of killing. But the men also both had different reasons and ways of killing. General Zaroff liked to draw the people in and make them comfortable before letting them go and hunting them like animals. Montressor would rather explain to the person what will happen and leaves them with nothing, all alone, to starve and die without brutally hurting them. Zaroff looks them in the eye as if nothing is going to happen. He gives them food, and even shows them how he kills the people. Montresor doesn’t tell them anything and

Montresor and General Zaroff live in very different worlds. Montresor, from “The Cask of Amontillado” kills a man named Fortunato because Fortunato ruined his pride. However, General Zaroff from Richard Connell's The Most Dangerous Game became bored with hunting animals and instead began to murder humans as sport on his private island. Although General Zaroff and Montresor are both sociopathic, how they killed their victims and the reasons behind the murders they commit are different.

General Zaroff and Montresor are both sociopaths who murder other people. Zaroff disregards the rights of others by forcing them to take part in his games, as seen when he says, “The weak of the world were put here to give the strong pleasure”. He is saying that only the strong people are good enough to stay on Earth and what better way to prove his strength than to murder the weak? Zaroff also feels no sympathy for those who he forces to