Life Is Not A Game

Life Is Not A Game “The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell, is about General Zaroff and Sanger Rainsford, two men and their passion for hunting. Both men are champion hunters and become opponents in an ultimate pursuit of to death hunting of each other. The central idea of this story is hunters eventually become the hunted. There is several instances throughout this story that show the hunters becoming the hunted. The story begins with …

…significance to its theme, the place however gives the main idea validity. The isolation of the island would make it possible for two men to hunt each other as prey, without interference from the outside world. The gloomy climate in the beginning described as, “the dank tropical night that was palpable as it pressed its thick warm blackness in upon the yacht,” I believe is Connell’s way of foreshadowing the circumstances Rainsford would face.