In search of the only prey that can make the hunt challenging, he has begun to hunt humans. Now he has become so good at it that he's bored with his beloved pastime. Zaroff explains that he is the ultimate big-game hunter he lives for his hobby, and has traveled the world and hunted every possible game animal. He knocks at the door and is welcomed by General Zaroff, a gentle and elegant man of noble Cossack heritage who apparently lives on the island alone with his powerful servant, a terrifying deaf-mute named Ivan. Moving inland he discovers a large manor-house on a cliff. As they pass through the Caribbean, Rainsford accidentally falls over the side of the yacht, but saves himself by swimming to the rocky shore of a mysterious island. Rainsford is presented as stereotypically heartless hunter, unconcerned about the life or feelings of his prey. One of Rainsford's boatmates who appears briefly in the introduction, wondering what it would be like if he was the hunted instead of hunter.Īt the start of the story, Sanger Rainsford is steaming south to Brazil to hunt jaguars in the Amazon with a fellow hunter named Whitney. This makes him ideal to Zaroff as it is impossible for Ivan to tell anyone of General Zaroff's murders if he escapes the island. Zaroff's large Cossack slave and bodyguard. The story is about a sardonic and ironic gothic inversion of the big-game hunting safaris in Africa and South America that were fashionable among wealthy Americans in the 1920s.Ī man of pre-Revolutionary Russian aristocratic background. Widely anthologized, and the author's best-known work, The Most Dangerous Game features as its main character a big-game hunter from New York, who becomes shipwrecked on an isolated island in the Caribbean, and is hunted by a Russian aristocrat. Evil West Gameplay The Most Dangerous Game or The Hounds of Zaroff (1924) is a short story by Richard Connell.
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