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The Most Dangerous Game
In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, people who refuse to be hunted are beaten to death by Ivan, a giant of a man who used to whip people to death for the Czar of...
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The Most Dangerous Game
On the yacht heading to South America where they will hunt jaguars, Rainsford and Whitney disagree over hunting. Whitney suggests that the animals they hunt have feelings such as fear and pain....
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The Most Dangerous Game
When General Zaroff explains to Rainsford why he feels justified in hunting men he is echoing the Social Darwinian theories of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Social Darwinists used the...
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The Most Dangerous Game
General Zaroff is the antagonist in this story, so most character traits that are associated with him are not positive. I'd like to go a different route with this question, though. I would like to...
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The Most Dangerous Game
Rainsford's fall from the yacht is caused by his lunging for his pipe, which is knocked from his mouth as it strikes a rope after he leaps upon a rail. Sanger Rainsford and his friend Whitney...
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The Most Dangerous Game
That's a good question. There isn't any textual evidence that directly tells readers why Rainsford doesn't simply shoot Zaroff in the back from a concealed location. I think one possible reason...
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The Most Dangerous Game
General Zaroff is Connell's antagonist in "The Most Dangerous Game." As villains normally do, Zaroff has a different perspective towards life and society than the rest of the world does. For...
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The Most Dangerous Game
During the three days of the dangerous game created by General Zaroff, who is the hunter and Sanger Rainsford the prey, Rainsford learns what it is to be "a beast at bay." "You'll find this game...
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The Most Dangerous Game
Sanger Rainsford is Richard Connell's protagonist in "The Most Dangerous Game." The reader first discovers Rainsford is a fit man at the beginning of the story after he falls off the yacht and...
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The Most Dangerous Game
When Rainsford and General Zaroff are speaking about different types of game, Rainsford says that he has heard that the most dangerous game is Cape buffalo. General Zaroff says the following: "No....
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The Most Dangerous Game
At the beginning of the story, Whitney and Rainsford are standing on the deck of a ship. It is nighttime. Whitney points out into the darkness and tells Rainsford that there is indeed an island...
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Literature
The two main characters are Zaroff and Rainsford. Zaroff has no internal conflicts. He is single-minded. He believes that he is a hunter and that role dictates his life. He has no ethical problem...
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The Most Dangerous Game
In Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game," Rainsford is the one who uses the word "superstitious," not Whitney. Whitney uses the word "lore" to explain the feeling of the "poisonous" air that he...
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The Most Dangerous Game
There are a number of times when it is clear that Rainsford survives and the last few lines of the story suggest that, in the end, he lives and Zaroff dies. First, Rainsford clearly survives after...
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The Most Dangerous Game
When Rainsford is still on the yacht with Whitney, they discuss hunting. Whitney suggests that while hunting is a great sport, it is not so great for the prey (in this case, the jaguar). Rainsford...
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The Most Dangerous Game
Like most pieces of literature, Richard Connell's tale of adventure, "The Most Dangerous Game," contains elements of foreshadowing and figures of speech such as metaphor, simile and...
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The Most Dangerous Game
In Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game," whether Rainsford is responsible for Zaroff's death or not can be argued two ways. First, one could argue that Rainsford is responsible for Zaroff's...
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The Most Dangerous Game
Sigmund Freud conveniently categorized the human psyche in the early part of the 20th century. His categories (although widely debated by subsequent psychologists) would seem to be a good way of...
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The Most Dangerous Game
General Zaroff gives Rainsford a choice between two awful potentials. Zaroff explains to Rainsford that he gives the men that are trapped on his island a choice. They can either be whipped to...
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The Most Dangerous Game
In "The Most Dangerous Game," characterization, or the way characters are portrayed through descriptions, thoughts, and actions, helps to build the theme of the story because the protagonist is...
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The Most Dangerous Game
As soon as General Zaroff meets Rainsford at his chateau, he is interested in the American big game hunter. Zaroff instantly recognizes Rainsford and mentions that he read his book "about hunting...
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The Most Dangerous Game
In the exposition of his short story "The Most Dangerous Game" Richard Connell uses both setting and dialogue to foreshadow later events. The initial setting of the story is on a yacht heading...
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The Most Dangerous Game
General Zaroff, the antagonist in Richard Connell's short story "The Most Dangerous Game," should be considered a "static" character because he never changes over the course of the story. He is,...
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The Most Dangerous Game
Toward the end of Richard Connell's short story "The Most Dangerous Game," the protagonist Sanger Rainsford leaps from a cliff across from General Zaroff's chateau in order to avoid certain death...
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The Most Dangerous Game
In the beginning of Richard Connell's short story "The Most Dangerous Game," two big game hunters sit on the deck of a yacht speeding toward South America where they will hunt jaguars. After an...
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The Most Dangerous Game
The natural setting of Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game" is certainly forbidding. When Sanger Rainsford falls off the yacht, he swims toward a screaming sound that he has heard in the...
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The Most Dangerous Game
Originally published in Collier's in 1924, Richard Connell's short story "The Most Dangerous Game" achieved both commercial and literary success. It spawned a number of radio and motion picture...
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The Most Dangerous Game
The setting for "The Most Dangerous Game" is an island. The island is called "Ship-Trap Island," and General Zaroff lives on the island in order to pursue hunting his favorite game animal: humans....
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The Most Dangerous Game
Richard Connell's short story "The Most Dangerous Game," was published in 1924. The short story is written in the 3rd person, limited, which means that the thoughts and feelings of one of the...
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The Most Dangerous Game
This statement, which comes while Zaroff and Rainsford are having dinner in the general's chateau, should be considered highly ironic. Even though Zaroff's island is in a remote area off the coast...
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The Most Dangerous Game
Rainsford's attitude toward the hunter and the hunted changes as the narrative develops. In the exposition of "The Most Dangerous Game," as they travel through the "moonless Caribbean night,"...
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The Most Dangerous Game
The climax in the plot of a short story is the highest point of interest. In other words, the reader should be at a point in the story where suspense has built up to an inevitable crisis. In...
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The Most Dangerous Game
On his remote island off the coast of South America the sociopathic General Zaroff hunts men for sport. He has grown tired of hunting animals because he has grown too expert in his chosen passion...
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The Most Dangerous Game
Ultimately, this question is up to you. I have seen both answers adequately defended. In my person opinion, I believe that Rainford's fall from the ship is the start of the rising action. The...
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The Most Dangerous Game
A psychopath is a person with a mental disorder highlighted by abnormal or violent social behavior. That General Zaroff hunts down and kills men for no good reason other than his own pleasure is...
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The Most Dangerous Game
General Zaroff is a Cossack who grew up in a wealthy, landed family somewhere in the Crimea, an area which has gone back and forth between Russia and the Ukraine (it is currently part of Russia)....
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Literature
The reader is expected to understand that a man who is under great emotional stress is likely to have a different subjective sense of time than what is "normal." Ambrose Bierce demonstrated this...
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The Most Dangerous Game
As the question stated, this is an opinion based question. The author does not explicitly tell readers what Rainsford did and did not learn from his experience with Zaroff. The answer could go a...
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The Most Dangerous Game
There is a menacing tone to "The Most Dangerous Game." Connell's use of dark foreshadowing with the exotic setting, the strange occurrences, and bizarre characters introduced in the exposition...
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The Most Dangerous Game
The story opens off the coast of Ship-Trap Island. This is one of those stories that really illustrates the importance of setting, because it couldn’t really take place anywhere else. Ship-Trap...
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The Most Dangerous Game
Arguably, the most effective imagery in Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game" is the light/dark imagery that prevails throughout the story. Rather than contrasting the light and darkness, however,...
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The Most Dangerous Game
Zaroff values human life differently than most people. Without human life, he wouldn't have his ultimate prey to hunt. But that is the extent of the value that Zaroff places on human life. To...
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The Most Dangerous Game
When Rainsford calls himself a beast, it foreshadows him killing Zaroff. Foreshadowing is when the author hints at something that will happen later in the story. When Rainsford first met General...
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The Most Dangerous Game
Zaroff calls the shipwrecked sailors that he hunts "specimens," because he doesn't consider them human men anymore. They are simply game targets to be hunted down and killed for his personal...
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The Most Dangerous Game
General Zaroff bought the island after he got bored with hunting ordinary game. Zaroff was an aristocrat that got forced out of Russia with the revolution. His family had been very rich, and he...
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The Most Dangerous Game
This quote is part of the last line of Richard Connell's short story "The Most Dangerous Game." The rest of the sentence reveals that it is Rainsford who is enjoying the bed. This means Rainsford...
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The Most Dangerous Game
"Ship-Trap Island" is the name of the large island in this story. We discover this name in the third paragraph of the story, as Rainsford and Whitney are standing on the yacht, viewing the island...
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The Most Dangerous Game
Rainsford falls off the yacht during the first night. He makes his way to shore and to General Zaroff's estate. Zaroff's silent assistant, Ivan, leads Rainsford to a room to change. Zaroff and...
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The Most Dangerous Game
Zaroff is described through the eyes of Rainsford, the narrator of the story, and also through his own dialogue and description. Though Rainsford's first impression of Zaroff is that he is...
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The Most Dangerous Game
One complex psychological theme is that of the superiority complex; which seems a modified representation of the Ubermensch as presented by Frederich Nietzche. Ubermensch is a German word for a man...