Essays on Richard Connell

Thesis: With the help of vivid characters, unexpected plot, and stylistic devices the stories “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell and “The Child by Tiger” by Tomas Wolfe raise the question of a twofold nature of every human who lives balancing between being a victim and a predator.

Introduction

The main ideas of “The Most Dangerous Game” and “The Child by Tiger”. The theme of human cruelty and ambiguity of human soul described in two stories. The basic conflicts of the stories and the moral questions they raise. The main differences in the message conveyed by the authors. The ...

“The Destructors” – Graham Greene

“The Most Dangerous Game” - Richard Connell

Rainsford in “The Most Dangerous Game”

Trevor in “The Destructors” Brief description of both, pointing huge difference between the two protagonists – and between the location and context of each story – which influence the action and therefore, the plot - What are their outstanding qualities? Does the author give any indication as to how or why the characters developed such qualities? Rainsford – courage, intelligence, a sense of morality, resourceful, the ability to endure hardship, calm in the face of danger – previous experience and the First World War

Trevor – reticent, determined, inventive, malicious – his family’s fall in social status perhaps.

- What are the characters’ emotions, attitudes and behaviors? What ...

Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” is about a hunter seeking his prey. However, it is the great hunter who ultimately becomes the hunted. For Sanger Rainsford, the protagonist of the story, hunting is “the best sport in the world” (Connell 58). While traveling with his hunting partner Whitney on a boat to Rio de Janeiro, Rainsford gets separated after falling into the water and swimming ashore on Ship-Trap Island that has a mansion on it. Rainsford then encounters General Zaroff, the owner of the island and an avid hunter like him. However, unlike Rainsford, Rainsford hunts for humans. Raiford is ...