Hop-Frog

This is a revenge tale about a tormented slave-jester who searches for a way to punish the king who has enslaved him. Hop Frog is especially unstable because of the alcohol that the king forced him to consume when he brew his scheme to kill the king.The jester tricks the king and his seven assistants into wearing flammable costumes and chains them together. Ultimately he suspends the chain of the eight Ourang-Outangs in midair and lights them on fire. After killing them he makes an escape and is never seen again. The narrator is criticizing the king for being a selfish, greasy, snob and shows this through his treatment of Hop-Frog and his Dwarf friend. To show the king's cruelty, Poe writes, "At last with out uttering a syllable, he pushed her violently from him and threw the contents of the brimming goblet into her face." This reminds me of terrorist attacks because terrorists feel that they are being mistreated and abused by other people, fueled by their craze and anger, they often show their feeling by attacking people that represent what they are angry at.