The Most Dangerous Game: Allusions

“In his library he read, to soothe himself, from the works of MARCUS AURELIUS.”

• Literary

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• Historical

• Modern (pop-culture)

• Classical (mythology)

“He HUMMED a snatch(small bit) of a SONG from the Folies Bergere”

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• Modern (pop-culture)

• Classical (mythology)

“GOD makes some men poets. Some HE makes kings, some beggars. Me HE made a hunter.”

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• Modern (pop-culture)

• Classical (mythology)

“Well, doubtless you had PURITAN (English PROTESTANT) ancestors. So many Americans appear to have had.”

• Literary

• Historical

• Religous

• Modern (pop-culture)

• Classical (mythology)

“He doubled on his trail again, recalling all the LORE of the fox hunt… ‘I have played the FOX, now I must play the CAT of the FABLE’”

• Literary

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• Religious

• Classical (mythology)

• Modern (pop-culture)

“Sometimes an ANGRY GOD OF THE HIGH SEAS sends them to me”

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• Modern (pop-culture)

• Classical (mythology)

“He was dressed faultlessly in the tweeds (plaid suit) of a country squire (gentleman)”

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• Religious

• Modern (pop-culture)

• Classical (mythology)

“I went into the army-it was expected of noblemen’s sons-and for a time commanded a division of Cossack cavalry”

• Literary

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• Modern (pop-culture)

• Classical (mythology)

Ivan once had the honor of serving as official knouter to the Great White Czar, and he has his own ideas of sport.

• Literary

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• Modern (pop-culture)

• Classical (mythology)

"Hunting? GREAT GUNS, General Zaroff, what you speak of is murder."

• Literary

• Historical

• Religious

• Modern (pop-culture)

• Classical (mythology)