High Noon Literary Analysis

Death; a terror of fear Sanger Rainsford and Marshall Will Kane experienced as that got caught up into a bundle of panic. To start off with, in the film High Noon written by Carl Foreman we quickly find out that Frank Miller is coming back to town with his gang to get revenge on the Marshall Will Kane. Unfortunately Will Kane has trouble finding deputies and has to take on this challenge alone. As we read the novel, The Most Dangerous Game written by Richard Connell we observed that the protagonist Rainsford fell off his yacht to next wake up on the mysterious Ship Trap Island. With no one around to call for help he comes into contact with General Zaroff and is forced into playing a terrible "game". While analyzing both of the stories, High
"I'm not trying to be a hero! If you think I like this, you're crazy! Amy, look. This is my town. I've got friends here. Tony and Harvey'll be here. I'll swear in a bunch of special deputies. With a posse behind me, maybe there won't be any trouble (Foreman)." One major theme that High Noon portrayed was the responsibility to society verse self interest. As we can tell from this citation Will Kane didn't stay so he could be the star of the show, he stayed because he knew he was doing to right thing by protecting and standing by his town that he built up. He knew that there was a great chance of him possibly being killed but he didn't let that thought get in the way of his decision to support his town. On the other hand The Most Dangerous Game conveys a different major message of theme. "At daybreak Rainsford, lying near the swamp, was awakened by a sound that made him know that he had new things to learn about fear (Connell)." Although High Noons theme was responsibility to the town verse self interest, The Most Dangerous Game theme went towards a different direction that fear really can change a man. In the beginning of the novel, Rainsford and Whitney had a discussion on animal emotions and Rainsford believed that animals have really no fear and they don't fully understand they are being hunted, while Whitney believed
Both of the main characters have many similarities as well as the setting, while the theme has many differences. Even though we never found out the physical appearance traits of both main characters, In the end, both protagonist from both novels High Noon and The Most Dangers Game conveyed strong, brave, tough, courageous personality traits that allowed them to revive the best outcome for the both of them in the conclusion which they were exceedingly critical in the final result. Although both High Noon and The Most Dangerous Game shares many similarities throughout the difference in theme was significant to the plot and conclusion. High noon portrayed a theme of the responsibility a person has to society verses self interest and how Will Kane knew he was doing the right thing by staying by his town to protect them from the harm that was coming even though there was a great possibly of him getting killed While on the other hand went towards a more subtle theme which was how fear can really change a man. Wrapping up everything, the desolated, remote, isolated qualities both the setting of the Western town of High Noon portrayed and the jungle of The Most Dangerous game portrayed were extremely compatible with the antagonist of both novels in the beginning because the lawless effect of both the town and the jungle made it possible for them