Compare And Contrast The Most Dangerous Game And Full Circle

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Both “Full Circle” and “The Most Dangerous Game” have many differences with how the murder is presented in the story, but both also have many similarities. In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” the murder was done for fun and sport, General Zaroff killed his victims to fulfill a hunting sensation. But in the short story “Full Circle”, the murder was done out of jealousy, because the Terry was rejected. Throughout my paper I hope to show the similarities and differences of the murder cases within the two stories.
The two short stories had many differences like time period, but had a huge common similarity, murder. The murder in the “Full Circle” was done out of jealousy and “The Most Dangerous Game” was done for sport. Some of the most

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