In the story "Hop-Frog", the jester is pushed to insanity by a king who has forced him to be a jester in his court. He is pushed over the edge by the king not calling him his name and making him do things just because the king knows he does not like it. He has his revenge by tying the king and all of his men together and suspending them in the air on fire. Edgar Allan Poe's style in this story is imitable as he does what he does best and describes this mans descent into madness. I personally thought the way Edgar A. Poe described the kings derision towards his servants very well as he really makes the king look like a bad guy using terms like, "tyrant" to describe him. The events of this story remind me of the people who introverts and let anger build up inside of them until it is unhealthy and then they may do something as irrational as a mass murder like the incident at Virginia Tech.