What is the thematic analysis of the hop frog?

Answer 1

Revenge. Poe draws you in with the plight first of Hop Frog, who has been taken away from his family, his friends, and hid country, to be the king's court jester as he was a fat, dwarf capable of bringing multiple hours of amusement to the King and his court because of their feelings about dwarfs. Hop Frog was also crippled and oppressed and tortured by the king. The story really revolves around the entrance of Trippetta, a dwarf who had been stolen from her homeland and people just has Hop Frog had only to become a slave of the court. It is ultimately the king's treatment of Trippetta that sets the whole thematic event in motion. From the time the king throw wine in her face, Hop Frog is starting to figure out the worst way to humiliate the king and his fellow aristocrats who treat Trippetta and himself like no more than garbage. He comes up with his ingenious plan to get rid of them all at the masquerade ball. Now he has the kind tar and furred with flammable materials and chained together where the chains could symbolize the bondage he and all the other slaves find themselves in, and there is much irony to their situation. Hop Frog hold the power, the fire, to punish to men at the end of the story and does so in front of the court as further humiliation that a crippled dwarf could have put them in this predicament. Revenge is a powerful motivator and not only the slight to Trippetta was babbling up but his loss of family and friends. Poe uses many literary elements to take a simple story of revenge and make it quite fascinating with many twists and turns and deep characterizations.