A long time ago back when people were naïve and ignorant. Wealth controlled and dominated the low class. People of high royalty controlled the world. When someone had a large amount of money they were considered the top dogs of society. The roles have been reversed the hunter is the hunted! The once known predator is know prey, which is describing the situation in Richard Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game” Rainsford the racist highly praised hunter finds himself on the wrong side of the food chain. He’s being hunted like the animals he loves to hunt and kill by the classist General Zaroff. The author uses experiences to say that some people think that being of a different race they have more power than others, why having a lot of money isn’t a good thing, and why being a classist, or high royalty doesn’t make you better than others .
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General Zaroff believes that some races have no value when he says “I hunt the scum of the earth: sailors from trap ships lassars, black, Chinese, whites, mongrels—thoroughbred horse or hound is worth more than a score of them” This demonstrates that General Zaroff ideal is that other races are useless to him and thinks that a horse and a dog are more valuable than people. People in modern day society also have the same mindset of General Zaroff and that isn’t good. A lot of people in our government have the same beliefs of
General Zaroff believes that some races have no value when he says “I hunt the scum of the earth: sailors from trap ships lassars, black, Chinese, whites, mongrels—thoroughbred horse or hound is worth more than a score of them” This demonstrates that General Zaroff ideal is that other races are useless to him and thinks that a horse and a dog are more valuable than people. People in modern day society also have the same mindset of General Zaroff and that isn’t good. A lot of people in our government have the same beliefs of