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The Most Dangerous Game: Theme and Irony

The Most Dangerous Game: Theme and Irony. By Marni Lorenz, Amy Smith, Matt Schafer, and Mitchell Kent. Theme.

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The Most Dangerous Game: Theme and Irony

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  1. The Most Dangerous Game: Theme and Irony By Marni Lorenz, Amy Smith, Matt Schafer, and Mitchell Kent

  2. Theme • Theme: Theme is a repeated idea that is expressed through literature. The theme has to be taken out of the writing as the reader goes through the literature. The reader has to use the character, plot, and other literary devices to explore through the text. Each person gets a different theme out of any piece of literature. There is more than one theme per writing. The theme is the main or central idea about life.

  3. Theme in “The Most Dangerous Game” • The theme of the story: Walk a mile in somebody else’s shoes before you judge them. In the story, Rainsford said that the animals do not care that they are being hunted; it is just a part of life. When Rainsford was being hunted by Zaroff he began to understand how animals feel.

  4. Irony Irony: A literary term referring to how a person, situation, statement, or circumstance is not how it would usually seem.

  5. Irony in “The Most Dangerous Game” Irony is one of the many literary elements that Richard Connell beautifully wove into the story of “The Most Dangerous Game.” Irony was used in this short story a great deal of times. The biggest example of irony I had found would have to be the views Rainsford had about the hunted. At the beginning of the story, Rainsford had boldly stated that he didn’t think that “the hunted” had any feelings towards being hunted. However, by the end of the story Rainsford’s opinion had changed, because he had moved from “the hunter” to “the hunted.” Another example I thought of as irony during the story was the fact that Rainsford happened to be a well known hunter, to be found by this man, General Zaroff who’s greatest passion was hunting. These were just some of the many examples of irony I had found through this wonderful short story.

  6. Sources http://www.tnhttp://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/general/glossary. htmellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/ httphttp://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/lit_term.html ://www.virthttp://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/lit-elements/overview/ualsalt.com/litterms.htm

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