The Most Dangerous Game Literary Analysis

Authors use many literary elements, such as figurative language, to write out the theme of their stories. In the two short stories, “Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe and “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, the themes are described by literary elements. “The Cask of Amontillado” is about a man trying to get revenge by tricking another man telling him about having expensive wine. “The Most Dangerous Game” is an eccentric short story about a General who lives on an island and hunts humans. The theme of irony delineate the themes for both of the short stories. “The Cask of Amontillado” is a short story about the narrator, Montressor, trying to get revenge for an unknown reason towards a man named Fortunado. Irony is used throughout the story to support the idea of Montressor’s revenge on Fortunado. Poe uses dramatic irony for Montressor’s revenge because the readers know how he is trying to get revenge, but Fortunado does not. “The cough is a mere nothing; it will not kill me. I shall not die of a cough” (Poe 60). This is another ironic event because Fortunado is telling himself he should not die from a cough, but later on, he is killed by the narrator, Montressor. Also, the name “Fortunado” is an ironic name because it means “fortunate”
Zarhoff is an evil man who hunts humans as his “games” because he was bored of hunting animals. In this story, irony is used when Rainsford is hunted by Zarhoff. “The world is made up of two classes- - the hunters and the huntees” (Connell 1). This is ironic because Rainsford is on a hunt as a hunter to look for jaguars, and ends up to be the hunted one by Zarhoff. From the beginning, Zarhoff was planning to hunt Rainford because that was his pleasure of hunting. Similar to “ Cask of Amontillado,” “The Most Dangerous Game” uses irony throughout the short