High Noon And The Most Dangerous Game Comparison

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change" said the great naturalist, Charles Darwin. The two stories that I have read, High Noon and The Most Dangerous Game both demonstrate this quote perfectly. Their themes are different, but the message is the same. Do what you have to do to survive.Both stories contain similar plots and general ideas of survival. There are many different parts that contribute to the understanding of the stories."It's high noon. It's a showdown. It's a question of who will flinch first" said a movie critic. High Noon, written by Carl Forman, is an action packed film that will have you on the edge of your seats the entire time. It's conflicts, setting,

and characters distinguish it from other stories, and they also closely resemble other stories with similar plots. Another story, The Most Dangerous Game, written by Richard Conner is another story that has a lot of the same ideas as High Noon. It reflects some of the plot while being a completely different story.High Noon and The Most Dangerous Game, though different stories, share very similar conflicts and characters; however, the settings are vastly different which affects the plot of both stories.
The conflict of High Noon and The Most Dangerous Game seen to reflect some of the same ideas as each other. There are many conflicts in both stories, but the major conflicts of each story will lead to death. The antagonist in both also have a highly unfair advantage, being the fact that both antagonists have people or animals to help them kill the protagonist. Time is also a conflict in both stories. Helen Ramirez, another important character in High Noon says "Kane will be a dead man in half an hour and nobody's gonna do anything about it. And when he dies, this town dies too. I can feel it" (Foreman). Kane is racing against the clock to save his town and protect himself against Frank. He has a very short amount of time to do many things to prepare for Frank's arrival on the Noon Train. In The Most Dangerous Game, time is also an issue, but it is the opposite. General Zaroff tells Rainsford, "I'll cheerfully acknowledge myself defeat if I do not find you by midnight on the third day" (Connell 17). In this story, Rainsford has a lot of time, which makes it more likely that Zaroff will find him and kill him. If he had a shorter amount of time, like Kane did, the story wouldn't be as suspenseful, and it would have been easier to win the hunting game. Even though the stories are vastly different, the main conflict was the same in both stories--facing life or death. The conflict both demonstrate the same common theme of survival of the fittest. Both Kane and Rainsford seem like the underdogs in their respective stories. They seem weak compared to their antagonists, but in the end, they will win. Sometimes, the winner is not the biggest and most powerful, but the smartest and the one with the best instincts.
Both the film, High Noon, and the story, The Most Dangerous Game, contain characters with eerily similar personalities.

Despite the differences in conflict and setting, Will Kane and Rainsford share the same determination and the same common goal--survival. In High Noon, Will Kane states " They're making me run. I never run from anyone before "(Foreman). This proves just how resilient Will Kane really was. He wasn't going to back down and run just because he was scared. He knew the right thing to do, and he did it. He didn't care what his wife said, he knew he made a promise to keep his town safe, and he wasn't going to run from anything. This is similar to when Rainsford prepared himself for the hunt by saying "I will not lose my nerve. I will not lose my nerve" (Connell 17). Rainsford knew he couldn't give up now and prepared himself to face the animals' point of view of hunting. He was being hunted, and he was determined to survive. The characters are identical in their personalities and their feelings. They are both scared to face the antagonist in their story, so terrified that they almost gave up, but in the end, their determination and natural instinct to survive takes over. They know what they have to do to survive, and they will knock down any obstacles in their way to stay alive. They are prepared for a fight to the death. Both Kane and Rainsford are ready to enter the ring with two competitors and emerge with one

victor.
The conflict and characters' personalities of both stories may be similar, but there are many other parts of the story that are different from each other. The setting is one example of how both stories are unalike. Each stories distinct setting helps contribute to its separate themes and backstories that set the stage for the whole story. "This is just a dirty village in the middle of nowhere. Nothing that happens here is really important" (Foreman). The setting in High Noon is very different from the other story's setting. First of all, it is set in the Western part of America, and it is in a small town. The protagonist and antagonist are not the only people in the town, there are other townspeople. Will Kane is familiar with the setting, he has lived in that town (Hadleyville) for many years, and he was the marshall there. In The Most Dangerous Game, it is set on an island with a dense jungle, which is different from Hadleyville's flat plains with no trees. Rainsford, Zaroff, and Ivan are the only ones on the island, so Rainsford can't get help from anyone. Rainsford has never been on this island, and he has never seen anything like it. This gives Zaroff an advantage, having known the island, compared to Rainsford's newfound knowledge about the layout of the land. Despite each story's likeliness in character and conflict, the settings of each story is extremely distinct. Both Hadleyville and Ship- Trap Island both are lawless, there are different altercations that make each setting unique. This gives a certain element of surprise when you learn that both stories' themes are trying to convey the same messages and lessons, but with two completely different stories. The setting is extremely essential to both stories for those reasons.