The Class System in The Most Dangerous Game Essay

In the world we live in today , it is broken up into different wealth and social classes. In Richard Connells The Most dangerous Game , he uses Ivan, Rainsford, and General Zaroff to represent the state of class the narrative . In The Most Dangerous Game . Rainsford is thrown off a boat and lands on Ship - Trap Island , he then goes to a house knocks and a Cossack hunter answers the door. From this point on Rainsford is not a huntee . Richard Connell uses Rainsford and General Zaroff to exhibit a switch in huntee , hunter role .

In The Most Dangerous Game , when Whitney said The world is made up of two classes the hunters and the huntees. Luckily you and I are the hunters , it showed that Rainsford and Whitney are middle / high class and much more powerful than the animals hunted , huntees. This quote also shows that there will be a point in the story where Rainsford experiences being an animal .

When Richard Connell says Youll find this game worth playing ,your brain against mine . Your woodcraft against mine. Your strength and stamina against mine . Outdoor chess, it implies that the hunter , huntee roles have changed . Rainsford is now the animal that can reason as general Zaroff wanted . I wanted the ideal animal to hunt It must have courage, cunning and above all it must be able to reason. Now this being said , General Zaroff has turned into the hunter who will be hunting the huntee , Rainsford.

As Rainsford goes throughout the jungle trying to save his life he must use natural resources to protect his self and survive. Such as the trees in the May lay man catcher, and the quicksand and sticks in the Burmese Tiger Pit. Rainsford using these techniques explains that in the situation he is in no wealth and or money can get him out of it in the wild. This shows the poverty , Rainsford went from a middle class hunter to a poor animal. General Zaroff says , Ivan , will supply you with hunting clothes , food , and a knife , to Rainsford showing that General Zaroff can afford to give , just as someone generous would give a homeless individual money, food and support. During the whole huntee - hunter situation , Rainsford has a small hunting knife as General Zaroff has a pistol gun .

In The Most Dangerous Game , where Rainsford sets up the Ugana knife trap when his only weapon was tied to a sapling it kills Ivan , the death , dumb, Cossack assistant. Rainsford successfully killing Ivan switched the huntee hunter roles again . Ivan usually kills the men that refuses to be hunted by general Zaroff but Richard Connell switches it up , making Rainsford the hunter in this case . His purses had stopped. But the hope that was in Rainsfords brain when he climbed died , for he saw in the shallow valley that General Zaroff was still on his feet , but Ivan was not . Now General Zaroff and Rainsford could finish their unfinished business .

The knife fight between General Zaroff and Rainsford at the end of The most Dangerous Game , represents the clash between Middle, High , and low social classes in the Victorian Era . I am still a beast at bay , he said get ready General Zaroff . He had never slept in a better bed Rainsford decided. This implies that Rainsford now killed General Zaroff in the knife fight at last .

In Richard Connells The Most Dangerous Game , he uses the class system and change of roles to in the mystery . I think that Richard Connell did excellent work in blending the various literary devices in The Most Dangerous Game . But now will Rainsford take General Zaroffs place on Ship - trap Island and put General Zaroffs head on the wall ? And he had never slept in a better bed .