The Most Dangerous Game Theme Essay

As Donnie Vincent once said, "The truth is... I'm always saddened when I kill an animal. It's not remorse I feel. I know why I'm a hunter. It's out of respect." But not always do the roles stay the same, sometimes, the tides turn and the hunted become the hunters.This story is so thought provoking, because of its classic theme that anyone can become the hunted. When one looks at “Hungry Like The Wolf” by duran duran, one can see that this theme is still pertinent to today’s world because even in music they show that anyone can become the hunted. One example is when in the duran duran song, they say “Straddle the line, in discord and rhyme, I’m on the hunt I’m after you.” The use of mood, suspense and setting are expertly crafted to support the theme of The Most Dangerous Game”.
Setting is often used to create a canvas on which to paint the art that is literature. In The Most Dangerous Game, the author utilises this element to explore the skills of the characters, and their traits. For example this passage demonstrates how skills are demonstrated from setting “Following the trail with the sureness of a bloodhound came General Zaroff. Nothing escaped those searching black eyes, no crushed blade of grass, no bent twig, no mark, no matter how faint, in the moss. So intent was the Cossack on his stalking that he was upon the thing Rainsford had made before he saw it. His foot touched the protruding bough that was the trigger.” (Glencoe 30). As seen in this example, the author again reiterates the current theme shown in “The Most Dangerous Game” by employing the literary element of setting to reveal the level of variance in style between the two hunters, while still having equal skill, for example Rainsford has a sort of precaution and fidelity, while General Zaroff has an aggressive meticulousness which perfectly compliments the murderous nature of the russian