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“The Most Dangerous Game ” Richard Connell

Setting: 1920’s – a little over three days Caribbean Island: Ship-Trap Island Dense jungle; primitive; uninhabited except for Zaroff and Ivan who live in a lavish chateau Plot:

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“The Most Dangerous Game ” Richard Connell

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  1. Setting: 1920’s – a little over three days Caribbean Island: Ship-Trap Island Dense jungle; primitive; uninhabited except for Zaroff and Ivan who live in a lavish chateau Plot: Rainsford falls off his ship and finds himself on a deserted island. After arriving at a large chateau, he meets General Zaroff who, in order to keep life exciting, hunts and kills people. He decides to hunt Rainsford who ends up using his skills to defeat Zaroff. Killing him in the end. “The Most Dangerous Game” Richard Connell

  2. Characterization • Rainsford: Skilled hunter and author who initially believes animals cannot reason or feel. He is disgusted by Zaroff’s game. He uses strategy and instinct to survive. • General Zaroff: evil genius, cosmopolite, looks like an aristocrat used to giving orders, hunts men for sport, believes “life is for the strong…”

  3. Conflict and Resolution • Type: man vs. man: Rainsford vs. Zaroff • Develop: Rainsford must survive Zaroff’s barbaric game of life and death • Resolve: At first, Rainsford’s fear makes him run from Zaroff, but then he realizes that he must use strategy to win the game. He plans and executes three traps. He kills Zaroff. • Type: man vs. self: Zaroff vs. his need for a challenge • Develop: Zaroff has grown bored with hunting animals • Resolve: Uses man as quarry, because man can reason and give Zaroffa better chase

  4. Theme • Appearance vs reality: things are not always what they seem • Survival of the fittest: “Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong, and if need be, taken by the strong.” • Fight for what you believe in: stand up for what you think is right

  5. Literary Elements and Techniques • Foreshadowing: “Ship Trap Island,” Whitney replied. “A suggestive name, isn’t it? Sailors have a curious dread of the place. I don’t know why. Some superstition…” • Situational Irony: • Rainsford and Zaroff’s role reversal. The hunter becomes the hunted. • Zaroff gets his exciting and challenging hunt, but it leads to his death

  6. Literary Elements and Techniques • Verbal Irony: • “This is a most restful spot” • “We do our best to preserve the amenities of civilization here.” • “I refuse to believe that so modern and civilized a young man as you seem to be harbors romantic ideas about the value of human life.”

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