The Most Dangerous Game Comparison Essay

Have you ever noticed some stories or movies, etc. have very similar points about them? High Noon is a movie of slow-paced action. "The Most Dangerous Game" is the story of a game no one wanted. Both of them have a very similar plot and dynamic. You just have to look really closely. The main characters have a very similar way of viewing things. At the heart of both these stories, they are really quite similar, with a few distinctive differences. The plot of both have a dynamic that is very similar to each other. Both of the characters are being hunted in some form, and by murderers. To be more specific, the main character of High Noon, Will Kane, is being hunted by his past. "They — they pardoned Frank Mitchell" (Foreman 299). The main character of "The Most Dangerous Game", Sager Rainsford, is being hunted by his
Just because the plot of a story is very similar to another, does not mean the message they are trying to get across is the same. These two stories just happen to be the perfect examples of how the plots can be similar at heart, but getting across a different message. High Noon's theme is you can't run from your problems. "If he does, and we run — they'll just come after us. Four of them, and we'd be all alone on the prairie" (Foreman 296). That is very different from "The Most Dangerous Games"'s theme because there was no one for Sager Rainsford to count on. He was completely alone and isolated. Physically, not figuratively, like Will Kane was. The theme of "The Most Dangerous Game" is the strong outlive the weaker. The hunters hunt the huntees. "This hot weather is making you soft Whitney. Be a realist. The world is made up of two classes — the hunters and the huntees" (Connell). Now I might not particularly agree with either theme of the two stories, but that is the message the author and the writer of the movie were trying to get across to the