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 greater existence than his biology would allow. 2. By the King and his ministers discounting of Hop-Frog due to his disfigurement and their inability to acknowledge his transcendence, they are fated to never have the chance to transcend. 3. By the use of symbolism in "Hop-....

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