Dangerous Liaisons

1. What is the significance of Man the Hunter? Where else does Brazier assert gender clarity? - The significance of man the hunter is to naturally kill animals for food and use women to please his sexual desires. Brazier asserts gender clarity by depicting man as the hunter, provider, and overall the boss. Women were a property of the man, only used to serve his needs. 2. What theories might be put forward to explain the staggered development of civilizations? - A theory that may…

To the northwest of the Wastelands lies a shattered neighborhood originally a warehouse district. No longer visible are the street grids parallel and perpendicular to one another. The bars, nightclubs, restaurants, and residential lofts, have become infested with creatures performing camouflage defenses. Suburban neighborhoods had become dwelling grounds for the lower, less dominates species. A Caucasian male ventures through the ruins of a neighborhood mounted on a biped,…

Is General Zaroff guilty in the name of the law? General Zaroff: a skillful, innocent hunter, or a deranged, guilty murderer. In “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, General Zaroff descends from a family of aristocrat Cossacks described as nothing short of savages. Savages are violent and uncontrollable, similar to Zaroff when he is hunting his most precious prey, humans. He is a man who expresses levity on the value of human life and views them as items used to relieve his boredom…

First and foremost, General zaroff is a better hunter when comparing to rainsford because he has more experience of hunting, he always embraces challenges and he is an insensitive character. On the other hand, Rainsford does not carry any of these qualities because he is much younger, is not always ready to accept such challenging obstacles and he is less insensitive than Zaroff. General Zaroff is a more skilled hunter than Rainsford because he simply has more experience of hunting than…

One smouldering day in Toronto, Bill decided to sail all the way to New York. He invited his best friends, Jack and George, to join him on this epic adventure. Both agreed to join him; in fact, they started packing the same day the idea was thrown out. The next day, Bill arrived to the boat rental place hoping for his two other friends to arrive. After about half an hour of waiting, they both arrived with their big, bulky bags, and all set sail on their huge, luxurious boat. Although they knew…

He could hardly understand a one of them. “Who are… happening… why… I thought!” they shouted. “Everyone quiet!” Rainsford exclaimed. “I am here to set you free. My name is Rainsford and I won The Most Dangerous Game against the general and he is recently deceased. I will need some of your assistance to get us off of this trap of an island.” He and all of the people he rescued walked down to the shore to see if they could see any near islands. When the reached…

Richard Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game,” is about a hunter who is wants to hunt down another ultimate predator, a man.The main character, Sanger Rainsford, is hunted down like an animal by General Zaroff. He must survive the hunt for three days, using a combination of his intelligence, strength, skill, and instincts in order to survive the General’s deadly game, and win back his freedom. He is given only one tool, a knife, and then released into the forest to be the prey.…

overwhelmingly sure of yourself and the solid ground you stand on, but in an instant it turns to water, and you cannot swim. You begin to drown, because you do not know how to react, and suddenly all of the confidence you once had vanishes. In “The Most Dangerous Game” the setting both forges and develops the characters’ traits and inspires their actions. Rainsford, an elite, skilled hunter finds himself seeking shelter in an island he stumbles upon after his fall into the ocean. To his…

Rainsford changed over the course of the story for several reasons. One way Rainsford changed during the course of the story was Rainsford thoughts on if the animal being hunted feels something when they know they're being hunted. At the beginning of the story, Rainsford strongly expressed his opinion that an animal, specifically a jaguar, has no sense of fear of pain or death and that you are either a creature that hunts or one who is hunted and the ones who are hunted do not have fear. However…

First, throughout the whole story Zaroff can be characterized as confident. The first reason he can be called confident is that he gives his prey a three-hour head start. Zaroff says, “I give him a three hours’ start.”(Connell 50). This shows that Zaroff is confident because he is sure that if he lets the get a three-hour head start that he can still catch them and find them. The second reason Zaroff can be characterized as confident is that he traps sailors’ ships and has them washed ashore.…