dang game trial
Mr. Rainsford did not kill General Zaroff in cold blood, but rather in self-defense doing this world a favor by getting rid of such a beast as General Zaroff. Sanger Rainsford is not a murderer, but rather a savior. The general gets bored with hunting animals and in his words decides that he “had to invent a new animal to hunt.”(21) This “new” animal being humans, sailors who happened to have the tragic luck of running into his “ship-trap”. General Zaroff is a cold-blooded murderer who kills for sport and pleasure and plans out his murders. However his own death at the hands of Mr. Rainsford is in self-defense and in remembrance of all the men taken by the general. General Zaroff has been killing men on his island for many years, all simply for sport and his pleasure. He is a man that adamantly thinks out his murders and then makes a game, a most dangerous game, out of his victims. The threat of being turned over to Ivan forces them to run. As the general explains to Mr. Rainsford, “He need not play the game if he doesn’t wish to. If he does not wish to hunt, I turn him over to Ivan. Ivan once had the honor of serving as official knouter to the Great White Czar, and he has his own ideas of sport. Invariably, Mr. Rain
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Approximate Word count = 1372
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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