Hop-Frog
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All Themes Cruelty and Comeuppance Subversion, Jest, and Trickery Physique and Character
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All Characters Hop-Frog The King Trippetta
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Hop-Frog

by

Edgar Allan Poe
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Chains

Chains symbolize the anguish the jester Hop-Frog experiences in his captivity. After Hop-Frog is forced to drink wine and his companion Trippetta is struck by the king, the jester plots revenge, aiming to subject…

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