The
Most Dangerous Game
Abstract
: The
characterization analysis have many way from character the figure. The authors
have done to present the character to invited the emotional’s readers like in a
real life, or the readers also can had a finger in every condition by our
emotions when we read this. From this novel, The Most Dangerous Game,
Rainsford and general Zaroff had shows their character how to survive to
get their purpose with their own ways.
Key words: characterization, quality, attitude.
Introduction
Richard Edward
Connell was born on October 17, 1893 in Poughkeepsie. Richard Edward Connell’s
stories were published in both the Saturday Evening Post and Collier’s Weekly.
Connell’s stories ever won in award. He won the O. Henry Memorial Prize twice for his short stories “A
Friend of Napoleon” and “The Most
Dangerous Game.” He was also nominated for an Academy Award for best
original story in 1942 for the film “Meet John Doe.” Some of his most notable works include: “Centenarian” (1916), “The
Most Dangerous Game” (1924), “Heart of a Sloganeer” (1929), “Cross-Eyed
South-Paw” (1929), “Black Chrysanthemums” (1927), “Brother Orchid” (1938), The
Mad Lover (1927), Murder at Sea (1929), and Playboy (1936). He died in
Beverly Hills, CA on November 22, 1949 at the age of 56th years old.
This story takes place on a
Carribean island. This story consists of two main characters, Sanger Rainsford
and General Zaroff. Rainsford is an experienced hunter who enjoy the sport. He
likes hunts because he enjoys it. General Zaroff has been hunting his entire
life. Hunting has become dull and he needs something new to hunt who need
challenged. Then, Zaroff decided to hunt man as a his game. One day, Rainsford
will hunt by General Zaroff. It’s makes a crucial conflict there.
This paper attempts to analyze the
character of Sanger Rainsford as the ordinary hunter and General Zaroff as the
human hunter. They are as the figure in The Most Dangerous Game’s story. Also
this paper attempts to complete the task analysis one of short
story for
Introduction to English
Litterature lesson. This analysis will be supported
with the description of the characteristic individually from the figures.
Characterization
Sometimes we used the word
characterization especially for appreciating person in play. Moreover, taken
from oxford pocket dictionary,
characterization is interesting or unusual quality that a person to make a
moral strength. Especially characterization just for value the individual
character. From the characterization, we can know more about the attitude or
habbitual the figure.
In presenting his character, the
author also used many modes of characterization of the figures. Richard
Connell (1924) has presents literary devices such as habbitual, traits and
quality which reveal the underlying the characteristic of figure in the story.
It make the reader can imagine the real figure’s character.
The
story takes place on a carribean island, jungle, hill and swamp. When Rainsford
found this island, he called this island is a mysterious island. Also the
jungle it’s like forbidding place. But Rainsford can’t leaves this island until
he found the escape.
The
author invite the readers to imagine all the atmosphere there. The darkness,
the brave, the iniquity of human life. From this story, I can found the real
characterization of Sanger Rainsford as the brave man. Also Sanger Rainsford
can be a smart and man with high spirit.
It was expressed in a single paragraph:
“. . . sleep had given him new vigor, a
sharp hunger was picking at him. He looked about him., almost cheerfully.”
(Page : 3)
I also can appreciate about general Zaroff, he is very strong,
smart, strict, evil and don’t have respect for human life. It’s describe in
that stories when the general
Zaroff tells to the Rainsford. General Zaroff said that, he always
hunts humans, or we can called him a cannibal. General Zaroff is easily to hunts
him death roll. It also was expressed in a single paragraph:
“Life
is for the strong, to be lived by the the strong, and, if needs be, taken by
the strong. The weak of the world were put here to give the strong pleasure.
I’am strong. Why should I not use my gift? If I wish to hunt, why should I not?
I hunt the scum of the earth: sailors from
tramp ship--lassars, blacks, chinese, whites, mongrels--a thoroughbred
horse or hound is worth more than score of them.” (page
: 8)
The characterization of
the story also based on the direct and indirect characterization. For the
direct characterization is the character which the author tells us about the
real character of figure.
We can know about the
characteristic of Rainsford like the author’s telling, when Rainsford had meet
with general Zaroff in the general
Zaroff’s home from this paragraph :
“
He was the singularly handsome. He was an original, almost bizzare quality
about the general’s face. He was a tall man with the past middle age, and his
hair was a vivid white, but his thick eyebrows and pointed military mustache
were as black as the night from which Rainsford had come. His eyes too, were
black and very bright. He had high cheekbones, a sharpcut nose, a spare , dark
face. The face of a man used to giving orders, the face of an aristocrat.
Turning to the giant in uniform, the general made a sign. . .” (page
: 5)
From the above
paragraph, the readers can know how is the general character.
In indirect character,
the author will show character in action of figure. What the figure do in every
ways.
Indirect character, the
reader can know when general Zaroff planned to kill Rainsford, he has a target
in this case, for three days general Zaroff must get Rainsford. As time goes by
Rainsford, he becames attracted to the dark side. He still keep his nerve when
he got the terrible problem. Than, Rainsford becomes more brutal during the
hunt when he makes a traps, killing all dogs, and general Zaroff’s servant. At
the end, Rainsford turns for completely.
The
general sucked in his breath and smiled. “I congratulate you,” he said. “You
have won the game.”
Rainsford
did not smile. “I am still a beast a bay,” he said, in a low, hoarse voice.
“Get ready General Zaroff.”
The
general made one of his deepest bows. “I see,” he said. “Splendid! One of us is
to funish a repast for the hounds. The other will sleep in this very excellent
bed. On guard, Rainsford.”...
He
had never slept in a better bed, Rainsford decided.
(page : 15)
From the above diologues Rainsford is
not much different than general Zaroff’s character. Raisnford be a strict
person, because he has to killed the general Zaroff to make him survive for a
living. Finally, Rainsford can switches roles with the general.
Conclusion
The Most Dangerous Game
is one of the short story of Richard Connell. It was published on 1924. This
story tells about Sanger Rainsford is the main character in this short story.
He is a hunter on a Carribean island with his friend,Whitney. Sanger Rainsford
is an excellent hunter and he is very clever man. Sanger Rainsford had met with
General Zaroff in the middle of jungle or in a ship-trap island. General Zaroff is a
hunter also. When General Zaroff tell to Rainsford what he hunts,him theme is
“hunting animals may be considered sporting, but killin another human being is
murder.” There is why, it makes a human conflict between them. General Zaroff
then makes Rainsford be a part of his game resolution. Finally, Rainsford can
wins the game and he can free from
General Zaroff. Because
General Zaroff was killed by Rainsford’s trap.
The conclusion is that
brave n nimbleness of Rainsford can accompany him to successful to won this
dangerous game. Rainsford can survive until he found the escape and killed the
general Zaroff. Like Rainsford, everyone has some small problem of darkness in
their live, and how us to became a good one to solve the problem with every our
circumstance.
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