The Color Red In Connell's The Most Dangerous Game
In the short story “The most Dangerous Games” Connell uses the colour red to infer and foreshadow things like bloodshed,death and murder.This kind of foreshadowing appersings in the beginning of the story when Rainsford fell off of the yacht and he is swimming in “blood warm waters”.This image of blood warm waters implies that he is swimming the blood of people who died in “Ship Trap Island” ; it also gives the reader an idea that rainsford must fight and blood shedding monster of some kind. In Connell’s description of General Zaroff’s appearance he mentions that he has “pointed white teeth and red lips” ; some reader might interpret this to mean that General Zaroff in a cannibal or eats animals raw or maybe alive.How ever the use of red dissappers