The Most Dangerous Game Revenge Essay

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Revenge: Anyone Can Turn Insane in Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game”
“You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you” Wayne W. Dyer. This is relevant in “The Most Dangerous Game” because what it essentially means is what goes around comes around, which happened in the story. General Zaroff treated Rainsford badly, which resulted in Rainsford doing the same. “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell is a adventure story about a hunter Rainsford, who becomes in the care of another hunter, General Zaroff, after being stranded on “Ship-Trap Island”. It’s revealed that Zaroff wasn’t “fascinated” by hunting animals anymore, instead he began hunting humans. “The Most Dangerous Game” is a story about the fight for life or death.
In Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” implies that well mannered people can turn insane if their life depends on surviving through characterization. …show more content…

While Rainsford is trying to lose General Zaroff, he reveals qualities of a person having a rush for the will of fear to survive. Connell writes “he had plunged along, spurred by the sharp rowels of something very panic like”(Connell 28). Connell highlights Rainsfords conversion on becoming deranged with “plunged along” and “something very panic like”. While Rainsford could've chose to stay tranquill, he let his temper get the better of him. Connell includes “something very panic like” to further draw attention to how Rainsford had been driven mad. Connell emphasizes on Rainsford slowly turning savage to ensure people may become uncivilized if their life depended on

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