Hop-Frog Quotes

Heaney continues to do this by glorifying the frogspawn, using alliteration “jam pots of the jellied specks”. This creates a soft and gentle rhythm for the reader, portraying Heaney’s fascination with nature a child.

This allusion helps readers understand Hop-Frog’s actions, as it shows why the king would listen to Hop-Frog’s idea to dress as ourang-outangs

Nature most definitely feels indifferent about human nature, but more importantly how humans feel about nature is significant. In Mark Twain's "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" there are many situations where humans demonstrate how they feel about nature. In the story the following quote relates to human and nature: "he had a little small bull pup, that to look at him you'd think he wan's worth a cent..but as soon as money was upon him he was a different dog." From the rest of the story it is safe to say that Smiley most likely had taken the time to train his dog to know when gambling was going on because of money. This quote goes to show that Smiley felt some type of control over the dog who is part of nature. In this particular

The climax is very heart-retching and deals with the narrator selfishness. After that, the narrator should have learned not to be selfish and to never let anyone get left

A Tale of Two Cities is a classic piece that explores many motifs through the lives of the characters it involves. The consequences of the desire for revenge and how it introduces ambiguity to the lives of Dr. Manette, Madam Defarge, and Mr. Defarge are masterfully played out in this literary work, in such a way that gives warning and hope at the same time. The message is clear: we are all human, and we are all in control. To what extent we allow the desire for revenge to control us is entirely in our

In Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “Hop Frog,” the main character Hop Frog is justified in his act of revenge because he is removed from his original country to be given as a gift to the king, and the king is disrespectful to Trippetta. The first reason Hop Frog is justified is because generals take him forcibly to be a gift for the king. After being ripped away from his home and brought to another country he is treated inadequately, “Many Large, bitter drops fell into the goblet as he took it, humbly, from the hand of the tyrant” (Poe 902). This scene shows how hop frog is humble and modest as he is being forced to drink wine. Hop Frog does not appreciate drinking, yet he cries as he does what he is told by a man who is indeed a tyrant.

In the story, “Hop-Frog,” the character Hop-Frog’s action is justified. One way his action is justified is because of how the king treats him. The king finds pleasure in inadequately treating Hop-Frog. He makes fun of Hop-Frog especially because he values the fact that not only is Hop-Frog a fool; he is also a dwarf and a cripple. Many kings at this time found it best to get through the days with a dwarf to laugh at. The king believes that Hop-Frog acquires a triplicate fortune in one person; he is crippled, a dwarf, and a fool. The king knew that Hop-Frog is not fond of wine, but still forces him to drink it. In fact, this excites him even more because he loves his practical jokes and took pleasure in forcing him to drink the wine. The wine

The main characters in “Hop-Frog” and “The Tell-Tale Heart” endure a vile nature of their own, even though what they committed was for self-uprightness from the external sinister forces. Hop-Frog’s appearance appears to be acquitted and inoffensive in the beginning of the story. However, Hop-Frog’s internal aggression and insanity are ignited due to many extreme external factors such as the king’s abusive power and Trippetta’s humiliation. During the climactic scene, Hop-Frog declares that he can distinct the king and the ministers as beasts for inhumanely degrades him and Trippetta. His statement seems to be proving a point of justice and equality; conversely, his brutal murder of the king and the ministers opposes the idea of bringing justice. Hop-Frog declares, “ ‘I now see distinctly,’ […] ‘what manner of people theses maskers are. They are a great king and his seven privy-councillors, -a king who does not scruple to strike a defenseless girl, and his seven councilors who abet him in the outrage’ ” (Poe 1255). Hop-Frog distinctively relates the king and the ministers to a corrupted hierarchical system, which is consisted of a merciless king and irrational ministers who do not bring justice and equality. In the contradiction, Hop-Frog is also the one that performs an act of sin, which he brutally sets the king and the ministers on blazes. “Hop-Frog” is a story full of irony and twisted scenarios, where the injustice transpires and alters one’s mind that even a righteous

The harsh irony of “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Masque of the Red Death” shows that acting on fear alone leads to paranoia and insanity. The old man in “The Tell-Tale

“Hop-Frog” is a captivating short story of a joker who learns to deal with his problems, one way or another. Edgar Allan Poe draws you in with the tale of Hop-Frog and his encounters with the king and his royal council. With the help of his good friend Trippetta, Hop-Frog learns the ways of dealing with the demanding king and his foolish ministers. Using literary devices like imagery, plot, and point of view Edgar Allan Poe hooks you into the story as you learn to

Oftentimes, creators make characters a faint image of how they see the people and forces around them, and the aforementioned stories make it clear that Poe is no exception to this generalization. In particular, he tends to characterize his villains as greedy and cruel, and just as prominently, of the upper class. In “Hop Frog,” for example, Poe goes out of his way in order to emphasize who the antagonists are and the atrocities they have committed. As the Hop Frog speaks to a mortified crowd, he reveals that “they are a great king and his seven privy-councillors, -- a king who does not scruple to strike a defenceless girl and his seven councillors who abet him in the outrage” (Poe, “Hop”). This king and his councillors regularly committed terrible acts, forcibly intoxicating Hop Frog and beating his friend Trippetta just being some of them, and did so without consequence; they are part of the highest class of people and are practically immune to any repercussions of torturing those so below them in rank and significance. Other than using “Hop Frog” to address the issue of direct abuse of the

This is shown at the beginning of the story because it talks about how Hop-Frog has lived his life dealing with being verbally abused and laughed at. This is shown in paragraph three when it says, “Our king, as a matter of course, retained his ‘fool’. His fool, or professional

As we move on to the third stanza we relise the change from in school to out of school for the easter term. The frogs changing from commas to exclamation marks : commas are small, weak and insecure but exclamations marks are big, loud and strong. Then it goes on about the children ' jumping and croaking' this word choice shows that there are changes being made, these words could be used to show the development of puberty in the children as they are becoming teens.

In many of Shakespeare’s tragedies, the playwright draws a connection between the moral health of the kingdom and the corruption of the ruler himself. In Hamlet, he explores the extent to which corruption influences characters. By utilising animal and nature imagery, Shakespeare exemplifies how sexual and political vices corrupt characters and ultimately lead to their demise.

Therefore, the King and the Duke, whose scams and attempts at theater are perhaps the most explicit examples of theatricality amongst adults in the novel, and they are clearly attempting to deceive people and thereby do harm. In the camp-meeting scene, the king describes himself as, “a pirate”, but that “he was a changed man now, and happy for the first time in his life; and, poor as he was, he was going to start right off and work his way back to the Indian Ocean, and put in the rest of his life trying to turn the pirates into the true path”, and that every time he convinced a pirate to change his ways he would say, “Don’t you thank me, don’t you give me no credit; it all belongs to them dear people in Pokeville camp-meeting, natural brothers and benefactors of the race, and that dear preacher there, the truest friend a pirate ever had” (). Having already witnessed the antics of the King and the Duke before this point in the novel, it is clear that the King is trying to scam the audience, but the language he uses is somewhat curious; the King seems to incorporate aspects of the adolescent adventure stories presented at the beginning, the kind of thing that Tom Sawyer would have done, to deceive the audience and milk money out of them and thereby causing them harm. If the Grangerfords represent the risks of self-deception, the King