Compare And Contrast Montresor And Zaroff

Zaroff and Montresor In the story “The Most Dangerous Game”, and the other stories based of “The Most Dangerous Game” there are lots of characters but, the two murderers are Montresor and Zaroff they are equally cunning, manipulative, determined and indifferent to human life. Montresor gave no chances for his victim, and Zaroff played with his victims. In the end, Montresor was successful and most likely won't kill again, Zaroff,on the other hand, ultimately failed, and if he had the ability to kill, he probably would take the opportunity and do it. Both Montresor and Zaroff had their own motives to kill. The only …show more content…
When Montresor decided to kill it was planned and his very first time, and he was pretty successful with it. Montresor is not a classic murderer, he has chosen his victim for a specific reason so he is not crazy, just filled with purposeful revenge. What he has done is not normal,but it is easier to understand than Zaroff's. Zaroff is motivated by his desire to be entertained through the sport of hunting humans. Zaroff has grown bored with hunting animals, so he has decided to hunt down humans. It's too bad he does gives them a chance to defend themselves so it’s not too easy for him. In the end is definitely not ok to kill anyone just because you want to get back at them or because you think it's fun. Montresor and Zaroff both assassinate on their own time. Zaroff is malevolent kills whenever he's in the mood to do so, and Montresor did the killing in the moment. Zaroff unfortunately kills for fun he started off as a kid as a big game killing and probably When Zaroff got older things started to progress until he started to sadly killing a lot more. Each time Zaroff kills he gets a rush of excitement and happiness he basically lives to kill others. The sad thing is each person to go on his island has no