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Edgar Allen Poe's "Hop Frog": The Transcendence Of Frogs And Ourang-Outangs
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"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 .... Middle of Essay
.... 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 toler ....
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