Compare And Contrast Rainford And General Zaroff

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I Strongly Agree that General Zaroff and Rainsford are completely different. General Zaroff is a Russian Big game hunter. Zaroff begins to get bored with just killing tigers, elephants and water buffalo. So then he decides to hunt the ultimate trophy animal “men”. A Cossack commands the cavalry division of the russian army until the bolsheviks revolted in 1917. They then installed a communist government and the class system. General went off and established a new world for himself on the Caribbean Island. And there he stay maintaining his lifestyle. As he is called a civilized savage. Rainford is an American who is a big game hunter and someone who got to see action in france in the first world war. He shows no sympathy for the animals he

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