The most dangerous game is a perfect example of the "golden rule". Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. General Zeroff enjoyed hunting so much that he reverted to hunting humans when regular animals started to bore him. To Zeroff all creatures were just specimens whom he judged by how much he enjoyed to kill them. When the hunter Rainsford feels how it is to be hunted, he realizes how it must feel to be the hunted. I would think that even Zeroff would not like to be hunted like he hunts his prey, if he would consider that it could be him being hunted, he would probably be more understanding to the value of human life. .
The main characters in this story are Rainsford, and General Zeroff. I don't know why Rainsford didn't accept to hunt with Zeroff, and when he got a gun or knife kill him and take his boat or whatever. I don't think hunting should be a sport because it is kind of dumb, unless you are hunting due to necessity of food. That's the main reason I don't like General Zeroff. I think Zeroff should have gone into marksmanship rather than hunting humans. Rainsford point of view must have changed through his experience as being the hunted, but he was more concerned with staying alive than feeling bad for the animals he killed, and his new sympathy towards those animals was not expressed in the story. .
The story was written in a semi-omniscient fashion and very straight forward. There are no metaphors or symbolism that I encountered in it. Even the title has nothing special about it. .
The story takes place in an isolated island owned by General Zeroff. This is the only setting possible for such a story, because the victims have no place to go, but stay in the island. The setting was not described in detail, because it didn't need to be.
I didn't like this story very much, because I could not relate with any of the characters. There wasn't much detail about any of them, and I would not have cared if Zeroff did manage to kill Rainsford.
