Conflict In The Most Dangerous Game

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All stories must have conflict, either between man vs. nature man vs. man or even man vs. himself. “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, is a story where a man named Rainsford, falls off his yacht and falls into water with sharp rocks lying beneath. He swims to the shore of the island and gets stranded there. Being stuck on the island causes many conflicts including being with one of the most dangerous and soon to be found out a murderous hunter, named General Zaroff.
Rainsford is convinced that animals are not scared and “they’ve no understanding”(1) when they are getting hunted. Rainsford disagrees with Whitney, his company on the yhat, that animals do know the fear and Rainsford does not believe her till he is being hunted himself on the island. Battling the sea tires rainsford until he gets over the sharp rocky shore “a jungle came down to the very edge of the cliffs” and “all he knew is that he is safe from his worst enemy, the sea.” The sea is not his worst enemy all though it could have been, “giant rocks with razor edges” lay under water. While being hunted Rainsford, realizes that “the …show more content…
Rainsford decides to try to trick Zaroff by giving him a complicated trail to follow but it failed. Rainsford decided to try to struck the general out by making a dead tree fall on him, the tree “crashed down and struck the general a glancing blow on the shoulder as it fell” (12). The general is impressed with Rainsfords work. Rainsford again set up a trap, but this time it is a pit with sharp points at the bottom. Hoping to get the general, he instead got one of the generals most vicious dogs. Rainsford made another trap that killed Ivan, the general's guard. After a day of hunting the general goes into his room to go to bed until “ a man who has been hiding in the curtains of the bed”(14) jumped out, it is Rainsford challenging the general for a dual, Rainsford
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