Zaroff compares the war to hunting human beings on his island. How are people changed by war? Is war like hunting? How does it differ?

This question calls for your opinion. In a war, most soldiers have to detach themselves from their experiences because they would never be able to go on if they didn't. People are changed by the experience, but most people are changed in different ways...... they change as individuals. War is not like hunting. Hunters choose to trail game with the intent of killing their prey. Soldiers generally want a peaceful end.... to save as many lives as possible. This of course is my opinion, what do you think?

A bit late but War is completely different to that of Zaroff’s game The reason being is that there are rules to war. Zaroff’s game is mostly completely ruthless in which he does not care about the well being of the others he is hunting. While in war they are trying to not cause as much pain as possible one example of this is fragmentation grenades. The reason why I bring up fragmentation grenades is that they cannot be plastic. The reason behind this is that if the blast from a grenade does not kill the individual the fragmentation will, and if the fragmentation still does not kill them, if the fragmentation is plastic material medical attention to the soldiers that were injured will be incredibly difficult. For if they use a metal detector to try and find these fragmentations the fragmentations will be completely invisible to the metal detector. Meaning that these men now have plastic fragmentations in them, which can cause medical problems to the men later on in their lives if they are able to recover. War is not like hunting, war is an armed conflict between two or more countries or even states in its own country. Zaroff’s hunting does have conflict but both sides do not have “arms” meaning that the men that Zaroff is hunting do not have guns or means to protect themselves. Another way war is completely different is that by hunting you are killing animals for sport and or food Zaroff sees the men he hunts as animals, but in war they kill the other men by either means to protect one’s self or to gain a tactical advantage over one another. War does change people, many people have to detach oneself from their experiences just to move on to live a normal life. But in war many times people go into deep depression mostly because of the fact that people die in war, those people could’ve been family, friends, even acquaintances but the fact that they are now dead is bone chilling to the person and to the others that they have been known to.