Analytical Essay: Characters in Conflict: “The Most Dangerous Game”
Rubric Score: 3-
This is the 3rd essay this year. I chose the ESLR of “Productive Individual because I believed that I am able to be creative in my essay that shows that it is my style in writing. I was successful in this essay in stating the thesis very well and I am able to support it. My weakness in this essay is my grammar. I tried to put a wider range of vocabulary in my essay. My next goal for is to be more explanatory.
The Emotional and Physical Clashes in Rainsford
In the story “The Most Dangerous Game”, Rainsford goes through both mysterious and frightening experiences. In the beginning, Rainsford is in a ship passing by a strange island. He falls down and swims to the island’s shores not knowing what will happen to him. Being stranded in an island and being hunted, Rainsford must over come as well as dominate his wits but at the same time try to subsist the island while being hunted. The more significant of the two is his conflicts inside him.
In order for Rainsford to stay alive spiritually, he must keep his wit intact. Rainsford just finds out he is about to be hunted, “Rainsford had fought his way through the bust for two hours. “I must keep my nerve. I must keep my nerve.” He said, through his teeth.”(Page 802). Rainsford must not let go of his guys and he must concentrate where ever he goes. Rainsford does bequeath he is wits, his control will be gone; fear will come into play and he will be able to think about how to survive. After Rainsford avoids General Zarroff the first time, “His face was set, and he forces the machinery of his mind to function.”(Page 803). Rainsford will loose his nerve almost to the point of completely leaving it behind. Fear strikes him, he is brain dead and now he has to revive it again or he will pay the price of death. His surroundings contributed to scaring Rainsford, but it also endangered him.
Persisting in order to live, Rainsford quarrels the island and at the same time adapt to it in order to prevent being killed. Rainsford runs away and he feels the floor beneath him, “The ground grew softer under his moccasins; the vegetation grew ranker, denser; insects bit him savagely.”(Page 805). Rainsford gets into heavier conditions of the jungle that he must adapt to. He has to use surrounding conflicts of nature against his hunter. Rainsford sleeps after his second day, “At day break, lying near the swamp, was awakened by the sound that made him know that he had new things to learn about fear. It was a distinct sound, faint and wavering, he knew that it was the baying of a pack of hounds.” Besides the encounters with nature, Rainsford must now face General Zaroff and his menacing pack of wild dogs. The three forces of external conditions are greatly affecting Rainsford’s nerve and guts, which can cause him his life. Rainsford must overcome these forces and be able to keep his body moving.
Internal and external conflicts going on Rainsford affected his mind and his body as well. Rains ford’s ideas towards hunting get modified to a safer setting. He then will overcome his hears and problems. Rainsford will tackle both of his conflicts dealing with his life and his emotions.
