The Most Dangerous Game

Asia Sims
Ms.Melville
English 1
Oct.3,2008

The Most Dangerous Game


In the story "The Most Dangerous Game" Richard Connell made this story to have more toward liberty than equality because all he do is pay attention to the two main character and the main characters are rich and they are hunters.There are other characters in the story,but you really don't hear from them and that's not fair to the readers. First, Connell uses the character of Rainsford to show liberty. For example he says,"The world is made up in two classes the hunters and the huntees." This quote shows that Rainsford only cares about the hunters (including himself) and not the animals. Another example is Connell makes Rainford care for himself and not anyone else; he killed two men and a dog. Another main character Connell uses to show liberty is Zaroff. Connell really uses Zaroff for liberty by making him live on island where he makes his own rules. In the story Zaroff said,"It must have courage, cunning and, above all, it must be able to reason," so he hunted humans. And that not equality when you hunt humans that don't want to be hunted. Lastly, the characters that we really didn't and don't really know about are:Ivan, the sailors and Whitney. They probably were for equality, but we will never know. So as a reader I can infer that Connell was for liberty and not equality.