High Noon Character Analysis

Being alone is never fun. Especially on those dark, rainy somber nights. Suddenly you hear a faint tip-tap of branches blown by the stiff wind. If you can relate to this, I'm sure you will understand the tough loneliness of the main characters in both High Noon and "The Most Dangerous Game." They both depict characters fighting to achieve something mostly on their own. Although they have the same underlying isolation, they both come in different ways. In the movie High Noon, the marshal of Hadleyville, Will Kane, fights alone to stop an old foe that he sent up. Although he is considered the best marshal the town has ever had, when push comes to shove, no one is there to help him. In the short story "The Most Dangerous Game" Rainsford is an expert hunter who was traveling to the Amazon for jaguars. One night, he fell off his boat and washed up upon Ship Trap Island. He then found out the owner of the island, Zaroff, had a hobby of hunting humans, and Rainsford was his next target. These two books have striking …show more content…
At the end of both stories, the resemblance of the settings are evident. You can see in "The Most Dangerous Game" Rainsford is left on the island with nothing but water surrounding him. At the conclusion of Hign Noon, Will Kane was left with nothing but dessert around him. You can also tell the disparities between the conflicts near the end. Will Kane decided to settle his problem in an old fashioned fun fight. However, Rainsford used logic to solve his. Similar to the last two topics, you can see the difference in character at the end of the story. At the end, we saw Rainsford with options, and you could see that he changed from the beginning of the story. With Will Kane, you can see that all that's changed with him was his connections. He is still the same old will Kane we saw in the beginning of the movie. Although their similarities are astounding, so are their