Zaroff Hunting Quotes

While Zaroff is explaining the rules to Rainsford, “I give him a supply of food and an excellent hunting knife. I'll give him three hours to start. I am to follow, armed only with a pistol.”’ He has the advantage of a ranged weapon while rainsford has a weapon you need to get up close for. After Rainsford decided to be hunted, “Ivan” he said to rainsford, “will supply you with hunting clothes, food, a knife.”

Zaroff has been hunting ever since he was five years old, after his father gave him his first gun. After shooting turkeys, Zaroff wanted to hunt more animals, starting his hunt. He shot his first large animal at the age of ten. “I killed my first bear in Caucasus when I was ten” (Connell 6). The general has hunted many interesting animals in his life, but now finds them all boring.

Zaroff didn’t just hunt animals, he hunted anything that moved. Then, you got Zaroff’s dogs that hunt for things too, because Zaroff has to train them. Dogs were hunting for Rainsford because he

This quote shows that Zaroff was prepared for a trap on the ground and attack from above. This proves that Zaroff knows what his attacker is thinking and anticipates it to keep himself

In this case Zaroff should've won the game, Zaroff has even found Rainsford and quotes

(Connell 12). This quote explains the main conflict in “The Most Dangerous Game”, that Zaroff enjoys hunting men. He found hunting animals to be too easy, stating that there was “no greater bore than perfection.” In the movie, the main conflict is that Frank Miller is coming back for revenge on Kane. Kane scours the town for deputies, however he gets no help.

Zaroff then says, “I see your point, but the thing is I like how the rules are right now because I always win and always will win.” Right after Zaroff said that the hounds broke in the door and got to Zaroff whn they stared to go after Rainsford he was starting to kill them but there was to on Zaroff just killing him. After Zaroff was dead Rainsford killed those two

Rainsford declines Zaroff’s invitation to join in the hunt and goes to bed. “Rainsford knew now how an animal at bay feels”(Connell pg. 235).I agree with the statement because there is two classes in this story the hunters that hunt and the huntees that are being hunted. Rainsford demands to leave the island at once, but the general refuses and forces Rainsford to be his new Prey. In the next hunt, hoping that Rainsford, as a renowned big-game hunter will provide the challenges he seeks.

Zaroff explained how he hunted the humans, a game of sorts, and invited (or rather forced) me to “play” with him. Naturally, I ran for my life and started dodging Zaroff circumspectly by using some of the hunting strategies we have learned over the years, being anything but cumbersome. I found myself in a dilemma as I only managed to mainly hurt Zaroff and one of his hounds, until Zaroff’s sidekick, Ivan, was killed by “a native trick [I] had learned in Uganda” (234). After that I bolted toward the ocean and threw myself in. While General Zaroff was sulking over his loss of prey, as he was usually such a perennial man, I swam to his mansion and hid in his room.

Others might argue that the game is fair by saying stuff like “The people that Zaroff hunts get equipment to help them out in the woods and that's pretty

This piece of text shows Zaroff studding and observing the ground trying to figure where Zarroff had

General Zaroff is an intricate person; he thrives off of competition. However, boredom consumes him entirely when he realizes that hunting has become less like a challenge and more like a childish game. He begins to ponder about what species of animal might make hunting fun again; the insane Russian feels as if hunting is his only purpose in life. No animal seems to have the mindset and intelligence to match Zaroff’s skillset, except for one. General Zaroff explains to Rainsford, “So I said: ‘What are the attributes of an ideal quarry?’

I have hunted every kind of game in every land. It would be impossible for me to tell you how many animals I have killed. " Here, Zaroff is indicating that he sees hunting humans as a greater challenge than any other animal he has hunted before and that he does so for his pleasure. Another quote from the story is at the end of the story when Rainsford has defeated Zaroff and is preparing to leave the island.

but it is General Zaroff that surpasses him. The part of the story when Rainsford asks if Ivan is Russian.... The reader now knows General Zaroff is not a mere hunter but he is out to

Also after reading up to this point in the story you know that he is planning on hunting his guest, rainsford. The reader knows that zarnoff is a twisted character and his definition of a hunt is man versus man, He is a Killer and a murderer. Later in the book though the tables turn