Literary Devices Used In Richard Connell's The Most Dangerous Game

There, off to the right! The mysterious island was noticed by the two hunters. The island was named Ship-Trap Island. Little did they know, the island was perilous and if they only knew, Rainsfords whole night was about to become The Most Dangerous Game.. The Most Dangerous Game written by Richard Connell, gives a man vs. man conflict that is very intense. Rainsford and Whitney are traveling to the Amazon by boat. As he hears strange things over by a mysterious island,he looks over and finds himself falling overboard. Whitney does not hear a thing while she is deep asleep. Rainsford swims to the island and explores around the island looking for shelter. He finds a large home where Ivan, a servant, and General Zaroff, a Russian aristocrat, live. They take Rainsford in. In the story “ The Most Dangerous Game,” Connell uses imagery to make the story more suspenseful, alarming, and descriptive.

Hunting big game animals for sport was a popular pastime with the wealthy classes following World War I. The morality of killing for sport was not questioned in reality, but in this short story the author does question it by taking it a step further and having the protagonist, Sangor Rainsford, hunted by the antagonist, General Zaroff.In a short story full of irony, one of the greatest ironies of Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” is that General Zaroff repeatedly tells Rainsford that he maintains a sense of civilization on his island.

Richard Connell in the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” claims that there is a deeper connection between the hunter and hunted that people don't realize exists. Rainsford and Zaroff were equal and both enjoyed hunting until Rainsford became the hunted. Zaroff’s morality is now deeply questioned. Connell uses symbolism and foreshadowing to express his thoughts and create suspense. First off, Connell makes the reader anticipate what will be happening to Rainsford by giving them clues; this is also known as foreshadowing.

The definition of foreshadowing according to Merriam Dictionary, foreshadow is best described as a, “representation, indication, or to typify beforehand. In the book The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell, he is able to use foreshadowing to create suspense and draw the reader in. Richard Connell uses foreshadowing many times in the story. To begin the story, Sanger Rainsford, a world-renowned hunter, is traveling on a boat to Rio with his hunting partner, Whitney. Rainsford's friend, Whitney calls the island they are passing, “Ship-Trap Island” (Connell 19).

There are two ways. Two ways to foreshadow that someone’s going to die, or another person is going to run away, or anything else that’s unexpected in a novel. Different ways of foreshadowing are used in all kinds of genres and books. It urges the mysteries to be solved. Rainsford from “The Most Dangerous Game” is taken to an island that many sailors have superstitions about.

¬¬Don’t you wish that life was as good as books made it seem. The use of figurative language in books make them seem almost real. When an author uses figurative language really well in a story or a book, it makes them come to life and interest people more. In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game” Richard Connell used his literary devices very well. He helped the reader really picture the story with the use of personification and metaphors.

To begin with, Richard Connell successfully writes a compelling short story through plot. One example of the exciting plot used in “The Most Dangerous Game” is when it states, “You'll find this game worth playing," the general said enthusiastically. " Your brain against mine. Your woodcraft against mine. Your strength and stamina against mine.

In Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game”, readers learn that you never know how someone feels until your out into their shoes. In life you don’t know how someone feels until your put into a similar situations. For example if someone is getting made fun of and then someone else is getting made fun of both of these kids know how it feels. In Richard Connell story it takes place at Ship Trap Island where the protagonist Sanger Rainsford fights the antagonist General Zaroff. Rainsford doesn’t believe that animals don’t have emotions and don’t feel pain but when Rainsford is being hunted by Zaroff a tattented hunter Rainsford starts to realize that animals do have feel pain and they also have emotions. Richard Connell used foreshadowing, irony, and dialogue to show that Rainsford realizes that animals do have emotions and feel pain.

In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game,” author Richard Connell expertly exploits foreshadowing and vivid imagery to emphasize danger and suspense. Many authors attempt to do this, but only a small few succeed. Everyone who has stayed up past their bedtime reading a book will tell you, they stayed awake because the book they were reading was filled with suspense. It is suspense that separates the great stories from the good stories. And “The Most Dangerous Game” is definately a great one. By using foreshadowing and utilizing his characters five senses, Connell keeps readers at the edge of their seats, eagerly waiting to find out what comes next.

In “The Most Dangerous Game,” Richard Connell correlates three common literary devices especially well: setting, suspense, and plot. Connell makes use of an appropriate setting, the literary element of suspense, and an interesting plot in order to strengthen the story’s recurring theme of reason versus instinct within humans, and to blur that line between reason and instinct.

In “The Most Dangerous Game” Zaroff’s perspective on the hunters and huntees is taken very literally in the sense that he is at the point where he would kill humans for fun, but Rainsford would only kill animals, and according to these perspective it can be assumed that Connell’s view on human nature is that there can be a dark side to human nature when they are removed from society to a place with no restraints. “I needed a new animal. I found one. So I bought this island, built this house, and here I do my hunting.(Connell 18)” This quote explains what people would do to others when there is no one watching. Zaroff buys a whole island just to hunt what he refers to as “new animals” but are humans. When in a place with no restrictions, people

Richard Connell’s The Most Dangerous explains multiple theories, such as nature versus nurture, and survival of the fittest. This short story also seems to have an underlying theme of Social Darwinism (Of Two Classes). Throughout the entirety of the short story, Connell shows a character change of a main character, Rainsford, who is at a constant battle with General Zaroff, the antagonist. This character change shows the importance of the mindset of characters, and how it can be applied to everyday life.

Have you ever been hunted down by a psychopath war general, rabid pack of dogs, and a giant mute knouter named Ivan, and escaped? “The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell, is about a man named Rainsford who gets stranded on an island with an insane head honcho on a small, isolated island in the Caribbean sea. Behind every work of literature, are literary elements that make it successful. “The Most Dangerous Game” is successful due to descriptive imagery, suspenseful plot, and ability to get to the point.

In Richard Connell's short story, "The Most Dangerous Game';, the use of literary devices, found blended with other literary devices, gives the story an inner meaning. The blending of literary devices effectively expresses the intentions of Connell to present contrast between the antagonist and protagonist points of view. As a result, the reader can gain insight on the good and evil sides of the story to enhance the purpose of his interpretation. "The Most Dangerous Game'; by Richard Connell presents literary devices such as foreshadowing, setting, and irony which reveal the underlying meaning of the story.

In “The Most Dangerous Game”, author Richard Connell uses a variety of literary device to depict the theme. He uses the main character, Rainsford, to be the character which unfolds the theme as he goes through the experience of being treated like a wild animal and becoming the prey of another human for sport. Connell uses three literary devices frequently including foreshadowing, irony and symbolism in order to support the main theme, put yourself in the shoes of the animals you hunt.