The Most Dangerous Game Man and the Natural World Quotes Page 1
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| Quote #1 "Don't talk rot, Whitney," said Rainsford. "You're a big-game hunter, not a philosopher. Who cares how a jaguar feels?" (1.10) |
Rainsford definitely functions under the man vs. nature model. He does sort of concede here that a jaguar feels, just that he doesn’t care how it feels.
| Quote #2 "Even so, I rather think they understand one thing—fear. The fear of pain and the fear of death." (1.13) |
Of our small cast and crew here, Whitney is definitely the most sympathetic. So why does he hunt?
| Quote #3 “But sometimes I think sailors have an extra sense that tells them when they are in danger. Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing--with wave lengths, just as sound and light have. An evil place can, so to speak, broadcast vibrations of evil.” (1.25) |
Superstition is based on the idea that we have a sense of things that go beyond reason and rational explanation. So are the sailors superstitious—or just right?
