The Most Dangerous Game

In The Most Dangerous Game  symbolism, foreshadowing, and irony are all involved. Starting with the title; he refers to hunting humans as a game. Is it not plainly murder? He makes it sound like a game of tennis or something that should have no real thought before doing. The title is also ironic because the General because the “game” at the end of the story, by being hunted by Rainsford. A couple of spots in the story darkness is used for scary or ire moments in the story. Blackness shows for instance when he is about to fall off of the boat at the beginning of the story. It is ironic that in the beginning of the story Rainsford cannot believe that the General would be hunting humans for the game of it. Ironically at the end of the story Rainsford hunts the General. The General tried to act sophisticated on the inside while on the outside his actions were barbaric. He acted like an animal while hunting humans like they have no feeling at all, while he tried to act proper with his fine wine.