Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Are the main characters in "The Most Dangerous Game" static or dynamic?

The two main characters in Richard Connell's "The Most
Dangerous Game" are both world-class hunters--Rainsford and General Zaroff.  Characters
can be either static (remaining relatively unchanged) or dynamic (undergoing change)
throughout the course of a story.  In this case, there is one of each--Zaroff is static
and Rainsford is dynamic.


The General is the same at the
end of the selection as he is at the beginning:  sophisticated, cultured, cruel,
sadistic, and self-absorbed.  Rainsford, though, does experience a change both in
circumstances and in thinking throughout the course of the story.  Initially he was
insensitive to the feelings of the hunted, uncaring about anything but his own pleasure
in hunting.  Once the great reversal happens and Rainsford becomes the hunted, his
perspective on everything changes.  That is a perfect description of a dynamic
character--someone for whom everything changes. 

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