Thesis Statement For The Most Dangerous Game

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Humans have a natural tendency to act violent the majority of the time, no matter the position they are in. By simply looking through time there are truly savage events such as Gladiator fights. Bloody and gruesome battles that don’t end until one is dead but why was this done? For enjoyment, the people at the time loved to see the gladiators clash their swords together, hoping for a swift cut. Further through time there is America’s attacks on Japan, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two atomic bombs were dropped killing a population of over 200,000 including innocent japanese citizens. America’s reasoning was because they felt threatened by the attacks that were made on Pearl Harbor, America did it to protect itself from the outside threat. The early 20th century had one more extreme example of violence and that was the Holocaust. Hitler's and the rest of the Axis Powers’ …show more content…
People may say the present is filled with mainly philanthropists but, it is not. The statement as a whole is immensely false because the present mirrors the past. People will commit acts of violence for their own enjoyment, when they feel threatened, or if they experience intense emotions.

To obtain a feeling of enjoyment people will go as far as to commit acts of violence. This is evident in the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” where the author Richard Connell uses General Zaroff as an expert on hunting who eventually became so skilled that he had to resort to hunting humans for sport. “‘I wanted the ideal animal to hunt,’ explained the general. ‘So I said, What are the attributes of an ideal quarry? And the