The Most Dangerous Game Setting Analysis

The setting of Richard Connell’s “ The Most Dangerous Game” is important to the plot. For example, an isolated island is harder to leave. The island is isolated which makes it impossible for the humans to escape because it is enclosed by sharp dark rocks and blue blood-warm ocean. The author says, “ And growling of the sea breaking on a rocky shore” (3). The rocks make it harder to escape and the ocean is too far from any land besides the island. Another reason why the setting is so essential to the plot is because Zaroff changes the channel to make big boats crash into the rocks. General Zaroff tells to Rainsford, “” They indicate a channel,”””he said, ‘“””Where there's none; giant rocks with razor sharp edges crouch like a sea monster with