Fear is a feeling everyone encounters at some point in their lifetime. Fear is a feeling that one’s body produces in threatening and frightening situations. It is an ability to identify danger in order to make a decision for either confronting the fear or fleeing the situation. The choice is entirely left to the victim. The stories “The Sniper” and “The Most Dangerous Game” have exceedingly similar themes, each main character within each story sets aside their fears in order to survive the cruel and senseless situations they encounter.
Where does one draw the line within hunting? Is it at the point where one feels pity for their prey? Or is it when one knows that they are stronger than their prey so it does not matter. “The Most Dangerous …show more content…
The moralities within this story are tested and learned the hard way. Rainsford, a big game hunter, is traveling by boat. He falls overboard and finds himself stranded on an Island. Rainsford stumbles upon a large home where Ivan, a servant, and General Zaroff live. They take Rainsford in. However, he learns that he must win a game in which he is the hunted! “It’s a game, you see… I give him a supply of food and an excellent hunting knife. I give him three hours’ start. I am to follow, armed only with a pistol of the smallest caliber and range. If my quarry eludes me for three whole days, he wins the game. If I find him, he loses.” (Connell 65-66) The rules to Zaroff's game are deceptively simple. The unlucky candidate will choose to participate, but if he will not take part in the game, he will be turned over to Ivan, who "has his own ideas of sport". The result is that there is no other feasible option, so the victim chooses the hunt. The act of one human hunting another for the purpose of entertainment defines this hunting game as cruel and senseless. This is form of senselessness is shown all throughout the story. Rainsford and general Zaroff are battling for different
Where does one draw the line within hunting? Is it at the point where one feels pity for their prey? Or is it when one knows that they are stronger than their prey so it does not matter. “The Most Dangerous …show more content…
The moralities within this story are tested and learned the hard way. Rainsford, a big game hunter, is traveling by boat. He falls overboard and finds himself stranded on an Island. Rainsford stumbles upon a large home where Ivan, a servant, and General Zaroff live. They take Rainsford in. However, he learns that he must win a game in which he is the hunted! “It’s a game, you see… I give him a supply of food and an excellent hunting knife. I give him three hours’ start. I am to follow, armed only with a pistol of the smallest caliber and range. If my quarry eludes me for three whole days, he wins the game. If I find him, he loses.” (Connell 65-66) The rules to Zaroff's game are deceptively simple. The unlucky candidate will choose to participate, but if he will not take part in the game, he will be turned over to Ivan, who "has his own ideas of sport". The result is that there is no other feasible option, so the victim chooses the hunt. The act of one human hunting another for the purpose of entertainment defines this hunting game as cruel and senseless. This is form of senselessness is shown all throughout the story. Rainsford and general Zaroff are battling for different