Cossacks

“Civilized, and you shoot down men?” (P. 8). In The Most Dangerous Game, written by Richard Connell, Sanger Rainsford, a well respected hunter falls off his yacht in the caribbean while passing Ship Trap island. He swims to the island and comes across a cossack named General Zaroff. Coincidentally, Zaroff is a hunter himself and invites Rainsford to come along with him on a hunt. Zaroff is not a traditional hunter though, he became bored of hunting traditional game and instead moved on to…

He’s survived numerous near-death experiences, from fighting on the frontlines during World War I to hunting dangerous animals in some of the world’s most exotic locales.“General Zaroff a Russian Cossack and expatriate who lives on Ship Trap island and enjoys hunting men. “The Most Dangerous Game” General Zaroff grew up wanting to hunt no matter what anyone did or said he was going to hunt someone.’When I was five years old he gave me a little gun…

kept coming back to two things while I read this. The first a quote from the beginning of the titled story. “Against the popular misconception, cowboys never did own ranches. They were not much more than the expert, wandering hippies of their day, Cossacks of the range who knew animals much better than each other.” (152, Harrison) I think this quote really sets this story off, the cluelessness of the men in the family, and their actions throughout the book. The second was John Fogerty’s song…

In 1908 Israel Zangwill updated the story of Romeo and Juliet to the love story between lovers from Russian Jewish and Russian Cossack families. In his play he illustrated that America was a place for new immigrants to end their old hatreds while they were being molded into being a sole entity : American. That was when the 1908 play The Melting Pot popularized the image of the United States as a melting pot. The metaphor "The melting pot" has been used to describe the differences in racial and…

The continuous struggle of powerful Russian interests attempting to impose control on the restive North Caucasia region, define the Russian-Chechen relationship and associated policies. Since the beginning of the 10th century, Russian influence has been resisted by the indigenous Chechen people. The persistent militancy in Chechen opposition leaves little room for doubt in the general wishes for independence and autonomy. Despite this, Russian governments ranging from the Tsarist rulers of the…

In comparing Graham Greene’s “The Destructors” and Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game”, I see a characters that are faced with complication for their age and lively hood. Trevor in “The Destructors,” is a young man who is degraded into a lower social class than he was used to before the war. He has to find a way to belong or be subjected ridicule and unwelcomed by his peers. Contrarily, Rainsford from “The Most Dangerous Game” finds himself secluded on an island inhabited by a hunting…

overthrow the Tsar. They believed that Tsar did not know of their plight. instead they blamed the Tsarists ministers ad officials. This demonstration of factory workers was brutally put down by Russian soldiers. Up to 200 were killed by rifle fire and Cossack charges. While the events of Bloody Sunday were occurring Tsar Nicholas II was out lunching with his mom and his response to the events of Bloody Sunday was Depicted in a diary entry where it is mentioned ‘’ There were many killed and…

How far would you be willing to go to preserve your life and well being in a difficult life threatening situation? How willing are you to let your primitive instincts take control of your mentality to do everything you need to do in order to survive. We have been programmed as humans being from our past ancestors to do anything and everything for survival. We are animals. Fear, anxiety, anger, are all things instilled in us to survive since the beginning. In the adventure fiction short story by…

“The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson and “The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell are both suspenseful and horror-based fictional short stories. “The Lottery” gives the reader a chill when one of the main characters is brutually stoned. However, “The Most Dangerous Game” will send shivers up the reader’s spine when the hunter gets captured by the game- human vs. human. The eloquent style and visually precise depictions in “The Most Dangerous Game” makes it the most enthralling. Both books have…

1904, St Petersburg What has happened to the powerful, almighty, motherland Russia? Since 1893, Finance (?) Minister Witte’s successful economic reforms to industrialise the nation encouraged my family and I to move to the city in the late 1890s; the promise of work and better standards of living too enticing for us to refuse as peasants. Upon arrival, the industrialisation of St Petersburg was obvious and astounding, the economic reforms that have strengthened Russia’s place as a country of…