What theme of richard connell’s story “the most dangerous game” comes through in this excerpt?

“…we should have some good hunting up the amazon. great sport, hunting."

"the best sport in the world."

"for the hunter," amended whitney. "not for the jaguar."

"don't talk rot, whitney," said rainsford. "you're a big-game hunter, not a philosopher. who cares how a jaguar feels? "

"perhaps the jaguar does," observed whitney.

"bah! they've no understanding."

"even so, i rather think they understand one thing—fear. the fear of pain and the fear of death."

The Most Dangerous Game story as two major themes. The first one is reason vs. Instinct and The Effects of War.

On this excerpt, you can see that the theme is reason vs. instinct. The hunter thinks that hunting is a good sport even though it kills an animal that has no way of defending itself. The character Whitney defends that the jaguar has feelings, especially the fear of pain and being killed.

This way this character is used to blur differences between animals and humans, that both have the same feelings.

i would say that these are the two thesis statements best for a literary analysis essay on recurring themes in shakespeare's romeo and juliet:

1.  in romeo and juliet, shakespeare demonstrates that love comes in a variety of forms, be it romantic, familial, or between friends.

2.  shakespeare explores the struggle for identity through the character of juliet in his play romeo and juliet.

the other theses aren't reoccurring in this play. 

explanation:

there mad at that place