Compare And Contrast Rainsford Vs Zaroff

When you first read the most dangerous game you are automatically faced with the question of the two men’s humanity. Are they barbarians? Are they completely sane? The main question is, are either of them civilized? When you think about it Sanger Rainsford is clearly more civilized compared to General Zaroff. I know this because he is with the common folk, he can tell that killing is immoral, and acts in a mature respectful way.
When you picture someone uncivilized you often link immaturity, lack of wealth, non polite, showing no concern for others, or the proper way to behave. They have the mind frame of a child and display it through their actions. A child is excused because they don’t know any better, but an adult who does and chooses not to is a different story. When we first meet Rainsford he is having a nice time with his friends on a yacht. We can infer that he came from a port filled with people and is returning back to those people. Zaroff might have started living in a town, but he doesn’t plan on returning. Instead, he wishes to live on an island with nothing, but Ivan, his dogs, and random prisoners. When you look up the definition of civilized you get “bring (a place or people) to a stage
Even if you asked a child about killing a human they see it as a bad thing. Why? Because, they have been taught that it is wrong, and unsound. Zaroff disregards this and treats the humans he murders as a simple game like he were playing checkers. Zaroff is so uncivilized and twisted that he doesn’t even see as murder. It is just a game to him. If he had lived in a regular town and tried committing the acts he does on the island people would certainly be after him. So, he lives on an island. I think, deep down, he knows that what he is doing is wrong, but he doesn’t want to see that so he calls it a game. By calling it a game it can feel morally safe to