In the short story, Hop Frog or the Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs by Edgar Allan Poe, the author's single effect is to inform the reader about karma.
First of all, the contributions that helped me arrive to the author’s single effect is the idea of deformities in the story. A characteristic of Gothic literature is grotesque or mutations and deformities. The Hop Frog contained that idea. There were two dwarfs in the story and they were seen as being abnormal. In the end, they were treated atrociously. In the book it says, “His value was trembled in the eyes of the king… his also being a dwarf and a cripple.” The idea of deformities and mutations contributes to my idea of karma because it is seen as being a tragedy. The king and other individuals use the dwarfs deformities as an advantage in order to pick on Hop-Frog and Trippetta. Nevertheless, they outsmarted the king and ended up killing the king and his seven friends. Being a dwarf is seen as a horrible thing back in the medieval ages and they used it as a source of comedy. Although his deformity was…show more content… Revenge is part of the characteristic of gothic literature. Allan Poe establishes revenge when the dwarf killed the king and his friends because of the king making fun of his deformity and using him in order to laugh. Although the revenge wasn't acted upon a loved family member, it was acted upon someone who is significant in the story. I connected the idea of revenge to karma because the king stretched the rubber band too far and it ended up smacking him in the face. He made fun of the dwarf and his actions had consequences. In the book it says, “He pushed her violently from him, and threw the contents of the brimming goblet in her face...before the work of vengeance was complete. The eight corpses swung in their chains.” The king hurting Trippetta had consequences that contributed to the effect of
