Zaroff's Manipulative

The story, “The Most Dangerous Game”, by Richard Connell, is a fiction genre. It is taken place in the Caribbeans, which is a island that has a rumor that weird things happen there, but in reality it’s only someone who tricks the boats to crash. The name of the person who does that is Zaroff, and he masquerades himself as if he was a civilized person to trick people into his game, but through the conflict the reader learns that he is crazy, and not a civilized person, because of many reasons. In the beginning of the story, the antagonist Zaroff pretends to act civilized ,and uses vernacular, but later the reader learns that he’s manipulative. The author shows you this when Zaroff says, “We do our best to preserve the amenities of civilization …show more content…
Zaroff doesn’t think he is committing murder, he thinks he’s hunting. “Why should I not be serious? I am speaking of hunting” (9). His barbaric, and deplorable side starts to show because of the way he thinks of murder being hunting. The author, Colleen starts to develop the General; he tries to reason with Rainsford because he wants him to join him. He tries to show Rainsford that it's not murder, but ordinary hunting when he says, “Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong, and if need be, taken by the strong. The weak of the world were put here to give the strong pleasure”(10). By Zaroff saying this, he shows that he thinks everything is about him, proving that he has a self-centered person. Throughout the whole story Zaroff struggles with internal conflict, and Rainsford helps him realize that his actions are wrong. At the end what shows that he is barbaric is when he starts gradually moving towards his game, and what it is.
The author of “The Most Dangerous Game”uses the conflict in the story to reveal aspects of the characters’ traits specifically Zaroff. In doing this Connell exposes the personality that Zaroff has. When he exposed him the reader learned that Zaroff is a selfish, uncaring, crazy murderer. Therefore, Zaroff's personality went from being “civilized” to being crazy, a person who hunted people throughout the story. Zaroff never realized that everything is not only about him;we are all

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