The most important event in the whole story has to be when Rainsford finds out that Zaroff is a human hunter for fun because he is bored from the fact that animals have no reasoning. The other important event is when Rainsford is the one being hunted and it may change his reasoning to hunting and scar him for life.

Ship-Trap Island

Thus the island as a whole acts as a kind of microcosm for the world, in which both wild places and supposedly “civilized” places can be sites of danger and human cruelty. The island also serves as a metaphor for General Zaroff himself.

So, his living within a tropical island is fitting because he is, at heart, both a beast and worse than a beast. And of course, the isolation of the island means Zaroff can get away with murdering other people for sport. It also could be seen to illustrate just how far he’s fallen away from…

The theme of “The Most Dangerous Game” is civilization versus savagery. Its main characters, Sangor Rainsford and General Zaroff, are both hunters, and Rainsford justifies killing by claiming that animals can’t feel.

The setting is very important in a short story. It sets the stage for how characters act and feel and provides a backdrop for the plot. This affects the story because General Zaroff is hunting Rainsford. …

The story features a big-game hunter from New York City who falls off a yacht and swims to what seems to be an abandoned and isolated island in the Caribbean, where he is hunted by a Russian aristocrat.

The setting of the story is Ship-trap Island. Much of the story takes place in the jungle of the islands itself, but the story begins on a boat and then continues to General Zaroff’s house. At the beginning of the story, Rasinford and Whitney are on a ship talking about Ship-Trap Island.

The resolution is that Zaroff is dead, Rainsford is alive, and Rainsford sleeps really well in Zaroff’s bed. He had never slept in a better bed, Rainsford decided.

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Rainsford symbolizes logic and emotional ignorance.

Zaroff is characterized as selfish and deviant (meaning what he does is not acceptable by society). This characterizes General Zaroff because it shows that he considers ideas of human decency and civilization, like not killing people, quaint and old-fashioned.

For example, in “The Most Dangerous Game,” the narrator says of Rainsford, “The Cossack was the cat. He was the mouse.” This metaphor indicates Rainsford’s position of helplessness and being toyed with as he was hunted by Zaroff.

“The Most Dangerous Game” By: Richard Connel It quotes, “that i could sleep without closing my eyes; the night would be my eyelids–“. It quotes, “The lights of the yacht became faint and ever-vanishing fireflies”. This is a metaphor because it is comparing the yachts lights to fireflies without using like or as.

In the dark of night, when Rainsford was talking about falling asleep, he says, “… the night would be my eyelids.” He was saying that the night was so dark, it was as if his eyes were closed.

In the story, “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, one of the first similes is something that evokes an extremely clear mental image. Whitney is describing the “moonless Caribbean night” and notes: It’s like moist, black velvet. Note the use of “like,” comparing the night to a heavy wet material (velvet).

Why does the General seem to be studying Rainsford during their first dinner together? To see what kind of foe he is. In addition to being defeated by Rainsford’s hunting skills, Zaroff is also defeated by his own …? What occurs at the resolution of the story?