Dangerous Liaisons

The most intelligent, yet barbaric and aggressive character ever created, from my viewpoint and/or in my opinion, is in The Most Dangerous Game written by Richard Cornell. This character is known as General Zaroff. This character enjoys hunting human beings on his island due to loss of interest of hunting animals. Human beings that stumble upon his island have to play by his rules and are challenged to see if they can survive three days while being hunted by the master of hunting. General Zaroff…

In Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game”, Rainsford washes ashore a mysterious island habited by the strange General Zaroff. The General lives lavishly on the island and believes himself a superior being because he hunts humans for sport. Rainsford is welcomed and greeted, however later, the General hunts Rainsford but loses and Rainsford kills him. Through Zaroff and the island, Connell shows that even as civilized humans, humanity itself can never truly be maintained as it can be too…

outcome, usually accompanied by a degree of apprehension or anxiety. Most people crave suspense in literature, movies, or other forms of entertainment. Author Richard Connell uses suspense in the form of foreshadowing in the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” to pull readers in and create a certain interest and involvement in the characters and the story. In the beginning of the story Rainsford and his partner Whitney are on a boat heading in the direction of Rio. They are discussing…

“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.” -Ernest Hemingway. In the story, “The Most Dangerous Game”, General Zaroff has hunted everything in every situation that he can imagine. He found that animals are not fun to exploit anymore. He had in many situations outsmarted and out done his pray so, he creates a new game where he hunts humans. They are smarter and have the ability to reason.…

“The world is made up of two classes- the hunters and the hunted.” This famous quote can be found in Richard Connell’s short story The Most Dangerous Game. This quote is also mentioned in the film version of this short story. This is one of the similarities between these two versions. However, there are also differences between the two, including characters besides the two main, Robert Rainsford, and General Zaroff, plot events, setting, and resolution. The most differences are in the…

“The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell are very similar yet very different at the same time. In High Noon the main character Will Kane is conflicted with many miniature conflicts, but the main one is he has to take down Frank Miller and his possy. On the other side in the story “The Most Dangerous Game”, the protagonist Rainsford gets stranded on an island, and then is hunted by a man named Zaroff who is a superb hunter and Rainsford has to survive a hunt against him. “The Most Dangerous…

As stated in the article, “A Solemn Warning to Wingsuit Flyers” (by Lola Jones; Published on XtremeSport4u.com on April 28th, 2010) they have resulted in fatalities on multiple occasions in the past. In the article, “The World’s Most Dangerous Sports,” (by Claire Davidson; published on August 7th, 2008) Extreme sports have left people with life-threatening injuries. The cost of participating in these sports is quite high as stated in. All of which is true, but, one could argue that there…

Bushman psychological construction of worldview is based largely on causality and consequence- both everyday action and mythology/folklore is structured in terms of human and non-human beings' actions as a cause of an event. Take, for example, the Early Race Narrative concerning the baboon's short, crooked tail. When baboons were like people, in the Early Race times, a child went hunting with a baboon. When they returned to a group of people, the baboon told them he had brought them gemsbok meat…

Fox-hunting - A Barbaric Tradition That Should Remain Firmly In The Past Fox-hunting - “The sport of hunting a fox across country with a pack of hounds by a group of people on foot and horseback, a traditional sport of the English landed gentry” (Oxford Dictionary) Two polarised viewpoints co-exist in relation to fox-hunting, people either hate it, as they believe it is a horrendous form of animal cruelty, or they are supportive of it, believing that foxes aren’t like other domesticated…

How are murders and violence defined in societies? In both “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell acts of murder and violence are displayed. According to Kennedy and Gioia (2015), “Short stories show rather than tell” (p. 13). Both “The Lottery” and “The Most Dangerous Game” do just that. The short stories share similarities such as a common tone, shared symbolism, and violence, but differ in purpose and character structure. The first short story,…