The Most Dangerous Game: The Evil Side Of Human Nature

Human Nature is the way a person thinks, feels, and acts that are common to most people. It can be described as a way people act on instincts. We can appreciate and talk about the good side of human nature, in that, humans attribute positive actions, however there are also people who can cover up their evil side of human nature. In the stories “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell and “The Child by Tiger” by Thomas Wolfe, we can see the secluded evil side of human nature is acknowledged through both the characters Dick Prosser and General Zaroff. Each of these evil sides are prompted by two different influences. In “The Most Dangerous Game”, a gentleman named Sanger Rainsford is a hunter and is traveling on a yacht. Rainsford was being careless while looking over the boat, after he heard 3 gun shots. He dropped his pipe, which caused him to fall overboard. The engines were so loud no one could hear him and the only option was to swim to the nearest shore, where he ended up on an island. This is where he comes encounter with General Zaroff. To Rainsford, Zaroff is a …show more content…
Both characters, in the beginning, portrayed good human nature. They were both admired and were strong men, but throughout the stories they both drastically changed to evil men. Also, in both stories, each of the men became the ones that were hunted and were both killed at the end. However, the motives of evil were not the same for each character. General Zaroff was an animal himself, who hunted and killed people, because it was thrilling to him. On the other hand, Dick Prosser started killing people because he was constantly abused by the society he lived in. One was a crazy mad man who was twisted and found joy in killing and the other is someone who had strong faith in God, but could not handle the difficult life he was dealt and snaps of not being treated fairly and seeing others not get treated