In "The Most Dangerous Game," General Zaroff is portrayed as a complete savage, albeit one with a veneer of civilized manners overlaying his savagery.
Zaroff's savagery is, of course, on full display in his hunting of human beings and his complete lack of any sympathy for them.
At the same time, he has some superficial aspects of civilization about him. He has (affects?) aristocratic manners and fancies himself superior to the common run of people, especially such riffraff as the sailors he traps and hunts.
Overall, then, Zaroff acts (in trivial ways) like a sophisticated and civilized man, but his more important actions show him to be a ruthless killer with no other aspect to his personality.
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