Theme Of Irony In The Most Dangerous Game
The short story "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell, the poem "Batter My Heart three-person 'd God" by John Donne, and the drama "Les Miserable" by Victor Hugo are all masterpieces created in different eras that have a couple things in common. All three pieces of work are primarily made up of a great deal of irony. By irony, each story is unique but also calls attention to the authors' points. The Webster Dictionary defines irony as "a situation that is strange or funny because things happen in a way that seems to be the opposite of what you expected" ("Irony"). Irony is what fills each of the masterpieces of work and therefore makes them have something in common.
There is a handful of irony in the great drama "Les Miserables". …show more content…
In the beginning of the story, Rainsford wondered what it would be like to be the jaguar that he were about to hunt. Rainsford, stating no pity for the hunted, showed that for him, what he as a hunter was doing, was all that mattered. The ironic part is that Rainsford ends up having to be the hunted. He had to fight against himself as he was in the past. He had to think like a beast. After changing roles from hunter to hunted, Rainsford changes roles yet again. He changes to being a hunter, but not an ordinary one. He changes to be just like Zaroff: hunting humans. He tells Zaroff, just before he kills him, that "I am still a beast at bay" (Richard Connell 85). Also, one of Zaroff's servants names Ivan, was a very tall, muscular man with a scary face. At first, he was feared by Rainsford, was actually both deaf and mute. Ivan was, in a way, useless. The irony of this story is key because without irony there would be not point or purpose to this work, which for this particular short story was to expose an aspect of the human …show more content…
In the grand drama "Les Miserables", along with many other though provoking points or morals, the irony is key. It is the ironic changes of the characters' path of life that leads to the next change that become examples of heroism and makes this masterpiece praiseworthy. Same with the poem or as some call it a hymn "Batter my heart, three-personed God". Through such an ironic prayer, the author chose the need for a different type prayer in Christians' life. And in the well-known short story "The Most Dangerous Game", irony was used to show an aspect of the human condition.
The irony in each story is they channel the authors used to bring forth there points or morals. Although each story has a different point or moral, "Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo, "Batter my heart three-personed God" by John Donne, and "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell have a handful of irony which links these three pieces of work created in different eras by different
Main Themes In The Most Dangerous Game By Richard Connell
Another one was Zaroff hunting just plain out humans. On the other hand General Zaroff himself is hunted in which he gives the person playing a knife to help defend him from what Zaroff has in store. Another thing that was hunted was humans but not by General Zaroff himself but by the menacing dogs. When Zaroff couldn't find the person he was after or was running out of tie he simply let out his dogs and the dogs would then lead Zaroff to the person. In the beginning of Zaroff's life he was a big hunter and hunted only animals, but as he grew up it started to bore him.…
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Another instance of Rainsford experiencing the concept of being the hunted, instead of the hunter, is, "Then it was that Rainsford knew the full meaning of terror," (Connell 34). At this point, General Zaroff has began hunting Rainsford. Rainsford is being forced to think like the hunted, instead of the hunter. Eventually, Rainsford processes how unpleasant it is to be the hunted. In other words, Rainsford is able to understand how difficult it is for the hunted to survive.…
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Rainsford now understands how the animals he hunts feel. How their life is constantly in danger and how they have to fend for their life. He realizes how it feels to become helpless and how hard it is to fight back. Zaroff has never experienced that because he would always be the hunter, until Rainsford came along and actually fought back. He used his wits and used the material he was given to beat Zaroff in his own game.…
Compare And Contrast The Movie And The Most Dangerous Game
"'Even so, I rather think [the prey] understand one thing -- fear. The fear of pain and the fear of death,'" said Whitney, a character in the story of The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell. Whitney's companion, Rainsford, disagrees, saying that the hunted can not think or reason. When the roles are switched, Rainsford learns quickly how it feels to be stalked ceaselessly through the night by one whose only intentions are to capture and kill. As with many famous pieces of literature turned film, the movie version differs from the written.…
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