Did you know even though nature can be beautiful it can sometimes be deadly.In The Most Dangerous Game, Rainsford begins to see the awe-instilling power of nature and how it can hurt us. The Most Dangerous Game Written by Richard Connell is a story about the dangers of nature and the ethical question of if we should kill animals. Connell uses irony to instill a question in the mind of the reader”Is killing animals moral?” In “The Most Dangerous Game,”Richard Connell uses a flip between man and animal to convey irony in the story while also using the dangerous environment of the Island to show suspense. One way Richard Connell uses suspense to convey the power of nature and to prove the struggle between man and nature is by …show more content…
When Rainsford is playing The Most Dangerous Game with the general he realizes something major. Connell writes,”I have played the fox, now I must play the cat of the fable”(Connell 32). Connell illustrates the irony of this phrase because he has always “played the fox” (the hunter), but now that he is playing the most dangerous game with the general the tides have turned. Redford now must “play the cat of the fable”(the hunted). This Redford an insight into the animal 's perspective and it helps him to realize the hardships animals have to face when they are being hunted by a human. Through Connells use of irony the reader can learn that we to are animals we to can be hunted the only thing that separates us from animals is our intelligence ,but that does not give us the right to kill them unnecessarily ,but if it comes to the matter of life and death it is ok to kill. We need to kill for food ,but not when we are hunting for game. Irony is displayed in the story by the topic of what to hunt. Rainsford is talking with the general about the best game to hunt and is astonished by what he is hunting …show more content…
We can see that Rainsford was intrigued with the general until the point when he realized that the general was hunting humans.”But no animal can reason” here Rainsford still does know but then when he says this “but you can 't mean” he then starts to piece it together and begins to realize that he was wrong. He was killing animals recklessly but when it came to humans he stopped
The most dangerous game began as a sport for one man. His name is Sanger Rainsford. In Richard Connell’s story “The Most Dangerous Game,” Sanger Rainsford, an avid hunter, is lost at sea, stranded on “Ship-Trap” Island-every sailor’s worst nightmare. Rainsford goes through a series of events that prove to be life-altering. Even though Sanger Rainsford went through many trials and tribulations, he never lost his intelligence, composure, or his bravery.
Where does the line of sport and murder intersect in hunting? Is it when the species being hunted is able to reason? Or is it when the species being hunted looks just like the hunter? In both movie and film, we see a man fight for his life and another going against all codes of ethics. While Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” and Ernest B. Schoedsack’s film adaptation both have several similarities, the difference are also apparent in each respective media.
Billy and his hounds face unexpected struggles each time they hunt. For example, there is always a battle to catch the coons. The first time Billy goes hunting, the hounds tree a coon in the biggest sycamore tree in the forest. For two whole days, Billy chips away at the tree until it finally falls down and the coon is caught. Billy is hot, exhausted, and aches all over. Another example of man versus nature is the weather during the Championship Coon Hunt. During this hunt, Billy and his hounds face a terrible blizzard. The winter weather is described as roaring and “the north wind seemed to be laughing at us” (202). The wind blows and the snow falls so fast that the Earth is instantly covered. Even the hounds have to stay in constant motion to keep from freezing to death. The biggest conflict occurs at the end of the story. Billy and his hounds encounter their biggest opponent, a mountain lion. All alone, they struggle with the wild creature that Billy refers to as a “devil cat” (226). The mountain lion has “yellow slitted eyes that burned with hate” (226). Billy watches as his hounds and the mountain lion tear at each other and fight till the end.
A skilled hunter sprints desperately through the woods, realizing the futility of hiding from his greatest foe: his own kind. Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” is the story of a hunter that becomes the hunted. The story explores the sense of extreme terror the protagonist feels being pursued by a psychopath living on a mysterious island. This protagonist, Rainsford, has many traits that aid him in his battle with the general. By demonstrating his cunning, sly, and remorseful traits, Rainsford shows the story’s theme of “walking a mile in someone else’s shoes”.
“You’re a big-game hunter, not a philosopher. Who cares how a jaguar feels?”. The story “The Most dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell introduces an adventurous type of thriller with two main characters named Sanger Rainsford and General Zaroff. Both of which are hunters who in the story play a “game” invented by General Zaroff out of pure fear of becoming bored of the hunt. General Zaroff is a big fan of the hunt and everything he says about the hunt is to be taken serious. Rainsford and General Zaroff are described to be excellent hunters through the traps Rainsford makes, all the big game Zaroff has hunted, but Zaroff is better at hunting through the fact that the hunt has began to bore and he needs more of a challenge hunting humans.
In Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game”, he uses several literary devices to keep the reader interested. During Rainsfords journey to and through the island of General Zaroff he partakes in an adventurous journey filled with mystery, suspense, and dilemma. These devices are used to keep the reader interested throughout the story.
The author of “The Most Dangerous Game” is Richard Connell. Richard Connell is an American author and journalist, who wrote a lot of short stories and few novels. His short stories appeared in the Saturday Evening Post and Collier's Weekly. While he was still in high school, Richard Connell was hired as the city editor for sixteen dollars a week. He studied college at Georgetown University, while working as a secretary for his father, who had been elected to Congress. After his father’s death, he moved to Harvard, and started writing for two college newspapers. After graduating, he transferred to New York, but he also left a brief stint in the army during World War |. After that, he moved to Los Angeles and began to write screenplays for major Hollywood movie studios. Richard Connell’s most famous story is “The Most Dangerous Game”, which is still widely read, even nowadays. It has inspired many movies and it’s probably the most frequently anthologized American story.
Many great authors that study human nature stood out the most during the period of time between the Imperialism and World War II. Among these authors were George Orwell and Virginia Woolf. Their study of the human nature is especially visible in certain short stories that each author respectively did. Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant” and Woolf’s “The Death of the Moth.” In either of these stories the respective author uses animals to depict their complex ideas about the nature of life, men, and the whole world.
Rainsford never really cared how the hunted felt because he was always the hunter and knew that he could kill his game he was hunting and Zaroff changed that. Rainsford was forced to play Zaroff’s game so he could be entertained and to test Rainsfords survival and hunting skills. Rainsford had the difficult choice to either play Zaroff’s game or he gets kill on the spot and is not given a chance to survive. What Rainsford learned made it much better for him to survive Zaroff’s game while being hunted in a jungle. If Rainsford never changed during his experiences he might have not even survived and would have been killed by Zaroff if he never
Man versus nature makes multiple appearances in “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell. In the passage the nature plays a major role which helps the plot become more adventurous and exciting. “Rainsford struggled up to the surface and tried to cry out, but the wash from the speeding yacht slapped him in the face and the salt water in his open mouth made him gag and strangle” (2). Rainsford fell overboard and into the water, the rocks put him in the water. If the rocks were never there, then Rainsford would have never had to swim towards the island. This passage proves that Man versus nature does exist in this short story.
Richard Connells “The Most Dangerous Game” is a short story which illustrates how calm analytical thinking can increase your odds of survival and controlling panic. We are introduced to the protagonist and main character, Sanger Rainsford, who is a big game hunter and a WW1 veteran. The story starts off with a conversation between Whitney and Rainsford discussing the island, so we can understand the reputation it holds. Whitney is a fellow hunter, a flat character and used mainly as a plot tool.
In the story The Most Dangerous Game a character named General Zaroff has a passion for hunting. He has been hunting since he was born. He has hunted every animal known to man, but, then he gets tried of hunting the same animal over and over. So he discovers a new animal human flesh. General Zaroff is person of bad character because he is cruel, cowardly, and untrustworthy.
Connell, Richard Edward. The Most Dangerous Game. Mankato, MN: Creative Education, 1990. Web. 2 Feb. 2014.
The Most Dangerous Game is a great story filled with action and suspense. The author does a top-notch job by building up to the events in the end. I loved all the imagery in that they used in the story, it made me feel as if I were in Rainsford shoes. I felt that the best element of the story was the suspense that the author used. They always kept the reader on edge and you almost never knew what to expect during the climax. The mystic surrounding the island made the reader all the more eager to see what was so bad about it. The story introduced the characters exceptionally well and it established their demeanors in ways that made you understand them. You saw in Rainsford that he was a bit edgy and awfully brave. You saw that in
... Nature, including human beings, is `red in tooth and claw'; we are all `killers' in one way or another. Also, the fear which inhabits both human and snake (allowing us, generally, to avoid each other), and which acts as the catalyst for this poem, also precipitates retaliation. Instinct, it seems, won't be gainsaid by morality; as in war, our confrontation with Nature has its origins in some irrational `logic' of the soul. The intangibility of fear, as expressed in the imagery of the poem, is seen by the poet to spring from the same source as the snake, namely the earth - or, rather, what the earth symbolizes, our primitive past embedded in our subconsciouness. By revealing the kinship of feelings that permeates all Nature, Judith Wright universalises the experience of this poem.