Characters General Zaroff. Previous section Sanger Rainsford. Popular pages: The Most Dangerous Game. Take a Study Break. Over the next two days, Rainsford is able to build traps that give him the advantage.
One of them cripples Zaroff's arms, and the other kills Ivan and the dog. Zaroff corners Rainsford at a cliff edge, but Rainsford jumps off before the general can shoot him. Zaroff returns home, but he cannot enjoy dinner because he is worried about replacing Ivan and Rainsford's fate. He goes up to his bedroom and finds Rainsford there.
Zaroff is surprised and says that the hunt is over, but Rainsford says that he is now a beast. Zaroff zealously prepares for a man-on-man fight with Rainsford. In the end, it is implied that Zaroff was killed by Rainsford.
Zaroff is an insane, heartless, and psychopathic man with a thirst to hunt human beings. Despite his sociopathic and dishonorable state, he acts like a kind and chivalrous gentleman and is extremely friendly and hospitable to Rainsford when he is washed up on the shore.
He considers "human hunting" to merely be a game for his own amusement, and he sets up the island as an arena for the unlucky soul who crosses his path. Villains Wiki. Villains Wiki Explore. Finally, general Zaroff makes his victims experience a level of terror that they have never experienced before. When Rainsford wakes up from his great sleep he looks out his window and he can see his own ship is crashed up on the rocks….
Both want to have the upper hand in an argument or situation. These two characters are on opposite sides of the spectrum. Zaroff is the hunter and Rainsford is the prey in this story. Also, General Zaroff has very unethical ideas and hobbies. This is very different from Rainsford's humane beliefs. Lastly, Zaroff…. The Most Dangerous Game Analyzing Conflict I find that the most important part of this story is how the plot moves along so quickly.
It also manages to describe successfully each conflict or major part of the story. The key element of the plot is when Zaroff and Rainsford play the game. The main conflict would be external which is man verses man, or Zaroff verses Rainsford.
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These characteristics make the character in the short story a less likeable character. Throughout the story General Zaroff showed how heartless he was by stalking his island with people he could hunt. He did this because hunting animals began to bore him so he wanted to find something better, new and improved and was more exciting to hunt. In the short story, Zaroff is a hunter who faces an issues, there is nothing challenging enough that he can hunt and still get a thrill, he needs something more challenging.
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