Hop-Frog

This story is a revenge tale because the jester eventually gets revenge on the king. The king and his men were constantly predisposing jokes on Hop-Frog. This king's joking went to the limit ofvirulence, as he hit the woman dwarf with a wine glass. This only vexed Hop-Frog more, and created his vengeance toward the king. To get back at the king he knew he would have to do something so prodigious that it would teach the king and his men a lesson. So to get back at the king he set the masquerade a blaze. What the narrator really criticizes is the corpulent, repulsive, barbarous, group of men (including the king who is supposed to be seen as a leader). My favorite part of the story is w hen Hop-Frog followed through on his plan and the narrator describes the scene of their bodies: "The eightcorpses swung in their chains, a fetid, blackened, hideous, and indistinguishable mass. "