![]() ![]() Hop-Frog reacts severely to alcohol, and though the king knows this, he forces Hop-Frog to consume several goblets full. Because of his physical deformity, which prevents him from walking upright, the King nicknames him "Hop-Frog". Both Hop-Frog and his best friend, the dancer Trippetta (also small, but beautiful and well-proportioned), have been stolen from their homeland and essentially function as slaves. This king has an insatiable sense of humor: "he seemed to live only for joking". The court jester Hop-Frog, "being also a dwarf and a cripple", is the much-abused "fool" of the unnamed king. Hop-Frog, Trippetta, the king and his councilors, 1935 illustration by Arthur Rackham ![]() In front of the king's guests, Hop-Frog murders them all by setting their costumes on fire before escaping with Trippetta.Ĭritical analysis has suggested that Poe wrote the story as a form of literary revenge against a woman named Elizabeth F. Taking revenge on the king and his cabinet for the king's striking of his friend and fellow dwarf Trippetta, he dresses the king and his cabinet as orangutans for a masquerade. The title character, a person with dwarfism taken from his homeland, becomes the jester of a king particularly fond of practical jokes. " Hop-Frog" (originally " Hop-Frog Or, the Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs") is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1849. Hop-Frog Or, the Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs ![]()
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