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The Most Dangerous Game Vs Cask Of Amontillado
In every story, there is one character who gets on the reader's bad side: the antagonist. In Connell's, "The Most Dangerous Game," General Zaroff, a world renowned hunter, kills the smartest prey in the world: humans. On the other hand, Montresor from "The Cask of Amontillado" plays the evil character as he kills Fortunato, a fellow member of a secret organization. But between the two, Zaroff is the more evil character because he kills people for entertainment and feels no remorse for his actions
The first way that General Zaroff is a more evil character than Montresor is because of his motives to kill people. In "The Most Dangerous Game," Zaroff explains to Rainsford that he hunts humans over a drink. He says, "It's gives me pleasure. They

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