Rainford's Emotion In 'Most Dangerous Game'

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Feeling is a fundamental function of all living things and the feeling fear can drive a living creature's urge to survive. In the story the "Most Dangerous Game” the main character Rainford discovers to be true. In the beginning of the story Rainsford said to another hunter " You're a big-game hunter not a philosopher. Who cares how a jaguar feels” presenting that he doesn't believe that animals have feelings or that “they've no understanding" of the fundamental idea of feeling anything, But as the story progresses and he becomes the one hunted the " new animal" he thought " The Cossack was the cat; he was the mouse ... Rainsford knew the full meaning of terror." at that moment he became the animal and he was afraid. So by the end he finally

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