The island is called Ship-Trap island because its where General Zaroff misleads, and trips the ships. How does Rainsford come to the island? Rainsford comes to the island when he hears gunshots. His pipe falls out of his mouth and he reaches to get it but he falls off the boat.

General Zaroff’s island has been named “Ship-Trap Island” because a significant number of ships tend to wind up running into the island’s rocky shores. It is as if the island somehow can lure and trap ships and sailors.

The sailors are afraid of the island because there are rumors of mischief. It seems that any ship that travels too close to the island is never seen again. Later in the story, General Zaroff reveals how such a thing could happen.

The name of the island in this story is Ship-Trap Island, and it is located somewhere in the Caribbean. Rainsford passes by this island at night on his way to Brazil for a hunting trip. It is described as a “closely knit web of weeds and trees.” Finally, readers are told that the island also has a swamp.

“Fractured my skull. But I got the brute.” “I’ve always thought,” said Rainsford, “that the Cape buffalo is the most dangerous of all big game.”

Q. What does Rainsford see that he thinks is a mirage? a lake in the middle of the island.

The main conflict in “The Most Dangerous Game” centers on Rainsford being forced to take part in a deadly hunt against Zaroff and Ivan. Zaroff has been looking for a human who was worthy of his skill and prowress, so you can imagine his delight at finding someone as good as Rainsford to hunt.

Rainsford evades Zaroff by making a complicated trail, setting traps, and using weapons. Rainsford accidentally ends up trapped on Ship-trap island with the sociopathic hunter General Zaroff when he falls off his ship one evening. He is an expert hunter, and so he should get along with Zaroff, who is an avid sportsman.

At daybreak, Rainsford hears the baying of the hounds and spots Zaroff and Ivan with a small pack of hunting dogs in the distance. Rainsford fashions another trap by tying his knife to a sapling. The trap kills Ivan, but the hounds push on, cornering Rainsford at the edge of a cliff.

Rainsford sets four traps in total: the Malay Mancatcher, involving a large tree falling on anyone who sets off the trigger; the Burmese Tiger Pit, where someone falls into a camouflaged hole with stakes at the bottom; the Ugandan Spring Trap, where a knife is tied to a loose sapling that springs forward; and finally …

The General accepted his challenge, adding that the winner would sleep in the bed. At the story’s end, Rainsford claims he had never slept in a better bed. Though not specifically stated, it is implied that Rainsford killed General Zaroff.

While it is clear that Rainsford did kill Zaroff, this killing was not murder, but rather an action of self-defense because Zaroff was a psychotic and deranged killer who would have killed Rainsford if he had not defended himself.

Yes he does get killed because in the story he is like on guard and rainsford was in zaroff’s bed so he won by killing him. The ending of the story bears questions about the true nature of Rainsford, who is implied to have killed Zaroff in order to secure his own safety.

The Most Dangerous Game Symbols

• Blood and the Color Red. In “The Most Dangerous Game,” references to blood and red imagery are used as a warning of coming dangers and to reinforce an atmosphere of violence and death.
• The Island.
• Zaroff’s Mansion.

Rainsford symbolizes logic and emotional ignorance.