Essay Archive - Edgar Allen Poe's "Hop Frog": The Transcendence Of Frogs and Ourang-Outangs
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 ....
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