How Does General Zaroff Value Human Life

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They cried for freedom, they screamed for the chance to go their own way. Over the years, they have suffered and suffered because of the ignorance of their monarch, because of his disregard for their welfare. The civilians of this fair nation wanted someone who would bring change, they wanted someone who listens to the people. Overall, they wanted someone who would treat them as how they should be, not a ruler who let them wallow in their own filth and die of easily treatable illnesses. That was only half of it though. Millions of people died daily from being tortured by the very men who were supposed to protect them. Pogrom after pogrom arose over the years, resulting in the deaths of everyone who was considered different. This is not what …show more content…

It is very obvious that the antagonist of The Most Dangerous Game, General Zaroff, has no care for the human life. He states, while explaining to Rainsford this concept of a game that he plays, that “Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong, and, if needs be, taken by the …show more content…

Someone who actually cares for humans at all would never call them “specimens”. This type of behavior, a general lack of care for the human life, is saddening. To compare Zaroff to someone like Hitler or Stalin would not be uncalled for. Hitler and Stalin referred to people with the same amount of care that Zaroff does, next to none. Instead of wanting to help people, both Zaroff and dictators like Hitler would rather see the strong survive and the weak die off. This is one of the main ideologies of Adolf Hitler. “Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.” Quotes from Adolf Hitler, like this one, sound very similar to what General Zaroff was saying before. Neither man, neither person in power, seems to care at all about what happens to those who are under them. Both of these men only seem to care about those who have power like they do. Everyone else who does not have power, or anything close to power, is just left to die because they are seen as a nuisance, an impure

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