The Most Dangerous Game Literary Analysis Essay

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“‘I’ll wager you’ll forget your notions when you go hunting with me. You’ve a genuine new thrill in store for you Mr. Rainsford.’ ‘Thank you, I’m a hunter, not a murderer’” (Connell, 70). Richard Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game”, portrays a hunter, one who feels no pity for the ones he hunts, who is suddenly in their shoes. He becomes the huntee when he meets a psychopathic murderer, and declines to hunt with him. However, he will not be let off the hook that easily. He gets three days to hide from his hunter, and if he’s discovered, he loses the “game”. It’s a game of cat and mouse, where at times the hunter will be underneath his prey, but with a gun in the hunter’s hand, the prey can’t retaliate. In “The Most Dangerous Game”, Richard Connell uses setting, characterization, and conflict in order to convey an anxious, haunting mood. …show more content…

When Rainsford first encountered the château, “His eyes made out the shadowy outlines of a palatial château; it was set on a high bluff, and on three sides of it cliffs dived down to where the sea licked greedy lips in the shadows” (Connell, 64). The description of the hungry lips causes a sense of anxiety because it feels like it could engulf you suddenly and erase your existence permanently. Furthermore, the details of where the château is located gives off the effect that the château could possibly be a haunted house; and something evil could be lurking inside, causing the mood to become haunting and

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