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......
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