Analyzing Conflict in The Most Dangerous Game

Analyzing Conflict in the Most Dangerous Game
There are many ways to learn a lesson in life, however they are never painless they just
don't exist, but if you can endure that pain and walk away from it, you'll find that have a heart
strong enough to overcome any obstacle. Now, pain I meant not necessarily physical but
mentally as well, experience from this could result a shock of change from one character to
another. Referring to the Most Dangerous Game the effects of the amount of conflicts that
the main protagonist, Sanger Rainsford is in conflicts with the antagonist General Zaroff shows
character shifts and development that leads to the resolution. For this story there are four
conflicts that changed the course of the story as well as the character.
The first is during the beginning where Rainsford and fellow hunter Whitney was
heading towards a ill named and rumored island known as Ship-Trap Island, both including the
crew were hoping to pass it unharmed. Now here our protagonist gets his first sense of
character, as the ship is taking its course, Whitney sparks a discussion by stating a
counterstatement that the perfect sport is for man not for the jaguar, which was a response
to Rainsfords statement that hunting is the perfect sport. During this discussion we learned
that Rainsford does not believe so, or rather he found the notion to be a joke. They concluded
with Rainsford stating that in this world there are two classes, the hunter and the huntees
and that lucky for them, they were both hunters. This tells us that Rainsford believes that man
is the alpha of animals since they have understanding and animal are lesser to not. This was our
first conflict, which acts more like a foreshadowing and an obvious one at that, and that not
that it is a negative thing, but it is clearly left there to make the reader aware what to look out
for.
The second conflict was presented during and after the character was trapped on the
island, he presented himself to General Zaroff who knows of Rainsford from his reputation on
hunting Snow Leopards, which solidify Rainsford back ground. The General gave him a proper
hosts treatment. Now as Rainsford learns more of Zaroff, it is revealed that he was a former
member of the military and his reasons for leaving his start of the sport of hunting. He speaks of
hunting as though he seem bored, by stating that the Caf Buffalo isnt the most dangerous and
that he hunts a more dangerous one. This is where the start of the conflict when Zaroff reveals
that humans are the best prey to hunt and that the same discussion that Rainsford and Whitney
had earlier, only this time the roles are reversed and now the discussion isnt if animals have
feelings but if humans are really above that of animals and not to be hunted. Of course
Rainsford didnt agree, Zaroff stated that he was native and his experiences in his war tell
different.
Rainsford still believes that it is murder but had no choice but to participate in the
game. This is the second conflict, where the character is presented with a role reversal, where
he is faced with situation where he is clearly arguing with a madman. For Zaroff, it is explained
that he clearly thought that if anyone would understand his blight it would be a man like
Rainsford, evidence of this is shown due to him attempting to compare him to Rainsford. This
most clear motivation of this conflict is that its a setup for the next one where Rainsford
himself becomes the huntee where obviously with purpose contradicts Rainsfords belief that
he is a hunter.
The hunt is the third conflict it tells us a lot of the characters, first if Rainsford reputation
was solid and that he had and can think under pressure. In reality the entire game is that of cat
and mouse, but the cat is armed to the teeth, still this shows that Zaroff was putting the odds in
his favor though, the game is completely rigged. The reason is because he had home field
advantage, he has the weaponry, and help from a man and hounds. This shows that the
character is not as powerful as he believes, to resort to tactics such as these he is either at this
point of the story, overdoing himself or using these advantages because he has to. Being that
this a game and that Zaroff was the cat he was able to know where Rainsford is with ease but
decides to let it last a little longer, Rainsford was able to strike back by making traps. Three
traps to be exact, the first was a mancatcher trap that was able to wound Zaroff shoulder and
symbolizes that Rainsford was on the offensive as well as the defensive. Next his second trap is
a tiger trap that manages to kill one of Zaroffs hounds. Lastly he used the knife that supplied to
him by Zaroff to make a trap that kills his assistant Ivan. Afterward it is revealed that he jumped
in the ocean and Zaroff was disappointed that his game was cut short and ended incomplete.

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