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Edgar Allen Poes Hop Frog: The Transcendence Of Frogs And Ourang-Outangs

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Edgar Allen Poe's "Hop Frog": The Transcendence Of Frogs and Ourang-Outangs

          "Hop-Frog!, I will make a man of you."

     In Edgar Allen Poe's short story "Hop Frog," the title character Hop-
Frog is able to transcend the limitations of his physical body, in ways the King
and his seven ministers are unable.  "Hop-Frog" has multiple examples of  the
transcendence of  man, and the inability of man to transcend. The most prominent
of these points are:

     1.  By overcoming the limitations of his, Hop-Frog's, physical body
     he is able to transcend into a greater existence than his biology
would allow.
     2.  By the King and his ministers discounting of Hop-Frog due to his
disfigurement and their inability to acknowledge his transcendence,      they are
fated to never have the chance to transcend.
     3.  By the use of symbolism in "Hop-Frog," Poe  reinforces the
actions of the characters and strengthens the representations of      their
transcendence, or lack there of.

Each of these of these three points coalesce to bring the significance of the
transcendence of man, or the lack there of, into a focused view.

     Hop-Frog,  the title character in Edgar Allen Poe's "Hop-Frog," is able
to transcend the limitations of his physical body.  Biologically Hop-Frog is
nothing more than a freak of nature.  Hop-Frog is a dwarf.  His means of
locomotion was that of an "interjectional gait---- something between a leap and
a wiggle,"(482)  and this motion was only afforded to him through "great pain
and difficulty."  Hop-frog's teeth are "large, powerful, and repulsive."(484)
His arms, not in balance with his body, have a "prodigious power."(482)  His
arms so over compensated for his body he  "resembled a squirrel, or a small
monkey, more than a frog."(482)   His ability to tolerate wine is nonexistent.
The story states that Hop-Frog is from "some barbarous region."(482)  For the
King, Hop-Frog is a "triplicate treasure"(482) for the king to laugh at.  If a
man  is ...

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