Revenge In Poe's Hop-Frog

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Hop-Frog was one of Poe’s less popular short stories. Published in 1849, Hop-Frog is an interesting story of revenge that involves a dwarf like Jester named Hop-Frog. He was given that name because of his inability to walk like everyone else. In the short story, Hop-Frog informs the reader that the King and his companions are all jokers and they live for jokes. The King forces Hop-frog to drink wine, although he had no intentions of wanting to drink at all. After two glasses, the King then tries to get Trippetta to drink; Trippetta was a beautiful woman, but was also dwarfed like Hop-Frog. After Trippetta refuses to drink, the king pushes her over and throws wine in her face. Hop-Frog was enraged with this incidence, so he created a plot to creatively trick the King and his jokers into becoming orangutans for the masquerade and putting on a performance, which would lead to their fiery deaths. To make this all happen, Hop-Frog makes the costumes out of tar and flax, which are both flammable materials. After all of the eight orangutans were dressed up, Hop-Frog chained them in a circle and made them wait until the clock struck twelve to enter the masquerade. All eight orangutans went into the middle of the masquerade, under the hole in the ceiling. A chain comes down from the ceiling and hop frog …show more content…

The Cask of the Amontillado slowly revealed the darkness in Montresor at the beginning paragraph of the story, and towards the end, it was vividly evident. Montresor even found pleasure chaining Fortunato and plastering a wall around him, to be locked up for eternity. Fortunato said, “For the love of God, Montresor!”(1244) This was right before Montresor was about to put the last brick in the wall to finish his dark deed. Montresor replied, ““Yes,” I said, for the love of God!””(1244) Montresor found a dark pleasure in the slow and painful murder of Fortunato, the

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