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General Zaroff In The Most Dangerous Game By Richard Connell
General Zaroff in the story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell is a narcissistic-psychopathic devil. One quotes that shows this is when the General says, “I hunt the scum of the earth: sailors from tramp ships- lassars, blacks, chinese, whites, mongrels- a thoroughbred horse or hound is worth more than a score of them.” This shows that General Zaroff was narcissistic because all of the people he lists as scum of the Earth take up the entire population of the world. He believes that he is better and more powerful than anyone else and that is the personality of a narcissist. Traits of a psychopath include: inflated self-worth, need for excitement or often bored, manipulativeness, and lack of remorse or guilt. General Zaroff possesses
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