Comparing The Most Dangerous Game And The Veldt

If you had to pick between getting chase by man eating lions or being hunted by a general, which would you pick? "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell and "The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury both contained many dangerous elements. "The Most Dangerous Game" contains physically dangerous elements while "The Veldt" contains psychologically dangerous elements. Out of the two, "The Veldt" has the most dangerous elements of the two short stories. "The Most Dangerous Game" is a short story that has many dangerous elements. One example of an element that is dangerous is the character Ivan. The main character, Rainsford is first introduced to Ivan when he walks to the castle. Rainsford sees Ivan guarding the door, and he learns from Zaroff that Ivan is his blind and deaf Russian guard. On the top of page 4, the narrator says "In his hand the man held a …show more content…
Another example of a dangerous element in "The Most Dangerous Game" is General Zaroff. In the short story, Rainsford meets Zaroff when he arrives at the castle. Zaroff is a general that became a hunter, and he was tired of hunting normal animals, and he said he found a new game to hunt. He decided that he would hunt humans that were forced to participate in his game. On the top of page 8 Rainsford says "Hunting? Great guns, General Zaroff, what you speak of is murder." This shows how Zaroff doesn't think hunting humans is a big deal and is a big threat in "The Most Dangerous Game." One last example of a dangerous element in the short story is Zaroff's dogs. In "The Most Dangerous Game," Zaroff owns a pack of hounds that would