The Most Dangerous Game Character Analysis

The Most Dangerous Game is one of the most intriguing short stories ever made. The story was made by Richard Connell on September 16, 1932 and is a book generally about hunting. To go more in depth, it’s a book about hunting humans. It takes place on a Caribbean island in the early 20th century. The main idea of this story is about a man named Sanger Rainsford that fell overboard and ended up swimming to a nearby island inhabited by a man named General Zaroff and his friend Ivan both of which are Cossacks. Both characters encounter each other when Rainsford knocks of the door of Zaroff’s chateau. The two discuss about how Zaroff hunts an interesting animal, humans. Rainsford is then forced to play the “game”

All in all the author, Richard Connell, uses conflicts in the story “The Most Dangerous Game” to reveal the traits of characters and to show how they relate to the different types disputes and decisions. Rainsford battled both external and internal conflicts throughout the story but manages to make the best out of them. Rainsford also goes through many trials and decisions which show his many characteristics

What is human nature? The Bible says in Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” We are all fallen, sinful and depraved, all of us are. Humans are evil. Genesis 1-3 shows us that God made us whole and good, but we have ruined his perfect plan. The greatest of men were all sinners. Moses, the leader of Israel was a murder (Exodus 2:11-15), David slept with Bathsheba and then killed her husband (2 Samuel 11-12), Paul murdered christians (Acts 9), and the list goes on and on.

Have you ever been hunted down by a psychopath war general, rabid pack of dogs, and a giant mute knouter named Ivan, and escaped? “The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell, is about a man named Rainsford who gets stranded on an island with an insane head honcho on a small, isolated island in the Caribbean sea. Behind every work of literature, are literary elements that make it successful. “The Most Dangerous Game” is successful due to descriptive imagery, suspenseful plot, and ability to get to the point.

Rainsford is a very skilled man, with many traits, he is a round character. Throughout the book you see rainsford do many things that proves he is a round character. In the book “The Most Dangerous Game” the main character, Rainsford is trying to survive for three days in the wild with a man hunting him. We are constantly hear his thoughts and his perspective on things, we know that Rainsford is a good character because he rejects the idea to hunt with General Zaroff, ad therefore is risking his own life. Rainsford told himself “I will not lose my nerve. I will not” This quote is an example of us the reader hearing his thoughts, which is another reason I think he is a round character. In the definition of round character it says that the character

A man gets hunted by another man on the deserted Ship-Trap Island in the middle of the Caribbean. Rainsford, the protagonist in “The Most Dangerous Game”, a short story written by Richard Connell, gets hunted by General Zaroff. Rainsford abounds with fear, making him crazy. General Zaroff’s arrogance causes him to feel that he possesses the right to hunt the people he captures. His arrogance causes him to commit gruesome things; in this case, murder. Prior to becoming another man’s prey, Rainsford feels that animals have no feelings, but he sympathizes for animals being hunted after he himself becomes prey. His feelings and opinions transform after this experience. “The Most Dangerous Game” consists of three central themes: fear makes an individual crazy, arrogance causes hurtful actions, and some experiences have the potential to alter an individual’s opinion.

The short story by , “The Most Dangerous Game”, by Richard Connell deals with many external conflicts. While on a ship in the Caribbean Sea, Rainsford goes overboard after his pipe. When Rainsford is in the water he has to decide whether he is going to swim after his ship or swim to the nearby island, Ship Trap Island. After Rainsford decides to swim to the island, he “fights” his way through the jungle to come across a château who’s owner is General Zaroff who is also a hunter like Rainsford however, Zaroff hunts the most dangerous game, men. Rainsford is then given a choice to play Zaroff’s game or deal with the torturer, Ivan. During Rainsford’s experience on the island he has to deal with an external conflict while playing Zaroff’s “game”.

Dwight Lyman Moody once said, " character is what you are in the dark," to me that means that when someone is in the dark and they start to become afraid. The reaction to their fear reveals the type of person they are. In the Short story "The Most Dangerous Game," Richard Connell shows that Rainsford reveals his character when he is in the "dark" being hunted by the General. His reaction or his instinct to this internal conflict is to reveal is hunter self and turn the hunter into the hunted.

How do the hunted feel? In the story ¨The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell Rainsford is the most dynamic character because at the beginning he believes that you are either a hunter or a huntee but at the end but at the end he learns that you can be both. In the story Rainsford is a hunter who meets General Zaroff -another hunter- who admires him and his skill. Rainsford soon learns that Zaroff is a monster who hunts and kills people. He tries to get away but soon realizes that he is forced to hunt with Zaroff resulting in his change in opinion about the world.

Due to curiosity he goes to the edge of the yacht where he subsequently falls off and is washed ashore an uninhabited island named Ship Trap Island where he meets General Zaroff. Rainsford is invited to General Zaroff’s mansion for a good meal. While eating, the two talk about hunting and the joy of it. Rainsford asks, “What have you imported, General? Tigers?”(68). “No”, General Zaroff replies, “Hunting tigers ceased to interest me some years ago. I exhausted their possibilities you see. No thrill left in tigers, no real danger. I live for danger, Mr. Rainsford” (68). Later he says, “I always got my quarry. Always. There is no greater bore than perfection...I had to invent a new animal” (69). After minutes of talking, Rainsford realized that this rich, elegant man was actually a cruel, murderous maniac who hunts humans for sport. What happens next is what changes Rainsford forever. Now we are reaching the actual point of which Rainsford changes his philosophy on hunting. Without much reaction time, Rainsford is casted out into the island where he only has certain supplies and must survive against the tormenting general and his menacing hounds. During the chase, Rainsford experiences fear and pain. At one point in the short story it says, “He stood there, rubbing his injured shoulder, and Rainsford, with fear again gripping his heart, heard the general's mocking laugh ring through the jungle” (77). From reading this we can see that

In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell the main character, Rainsford, is confronted by many difficulties prior to and throughout his stay on the feared, Ship-Trap Island. These include both physical and mental challenges, and are affected by the antagonist of the story, General Zaroff.

In Richard Connell's short story “The Most Dangerous Game,” he characterizes General Zaroff indirectly through Rainsford’s thoughts. The General feels that hunting is his life, and so when he becomes bored of hunting animals, Zaroff decides to abandon his morals and make his prey the smartest of them all; fellow humans. Zaroff challenges Rainsford, a renown hunter trapped on Ship Trap Island, to a hunt to the death. After many close calls, Rainsford kills Zaroff, winning the competition. Rainsford has a near miss with Zaroff that fills him with dread and makes him think,“The General was playing with him. The General was saving him for another day’s sport,” (pg 9). This quote shows one of Zaroff’s traits, his confidence, which is implied because

The question that is usually asked is a one human life more valuable than another. To me the answer is no, you can’t really say that one is by the money they make, who they know, or how old they might be. In the short story The Most Dangerous Game General Zaroff said he hunted the “scum’ of the earth. He also said they need to live because what are they going to do for the community.

At the end of “The Most Dangerous game” by Richard Connell Rainsford finally gets the upper hand of General Zaroff by appearing in his room, but then it leaves off at a cliffhanger and the story ends. I believe that when Rainsford surprises General Zaroff he does not kill him. I say this because once Rainsford hears about what general Zaroff is doing makes him disgusted. When Rainsford is being hunted by Zaroff he sets two traps that could definitely kill Zaroff but Rainsford sure knows that Zaroff is a smart man that wouldn’t let those traps get him. So I believe that they were both just there to try and scare rainsford.

“‘I must keep my nerve. I must keep my nerve.’” (connell 24). Rainsford was having a Character vs. Character conflict at that moment. He did not want to lose his nerve and go crazy because he had a greater ability to die if he did that. He continued to say those words to himself over and over again so therefore the internal battle continued.