He is not treated as though a person, but merely an object for the kings amusement and therefore he is shown respect and pity from absolutely no one excepting his only friend and fellow dwarf Trippetta whom had been captured from the same country as himself. In addition to the constant emotional torture he receives from those around him, he is in constant physical pain whenever he walks, thus the basis of his nickname Hop-Frog, through the distortion of his legs, could only move with great pain and difficulty along a road or floor. Poe uses the first half or so of the story to evoke pity from the reader for Hop-Frogs sad and pathetic position and making him the protagonist and the king and his ministers the antagonists. Although Hop-Frog does do a terrible and gruesome and terrible thing by tricking the king and his ministers and burning them alive, one finds it hard to hate him for it in light of the actions that had provoked it. In this way he is different from the narrator in our first story as they both committed great evils, but where one the reader hates for his actions the other they are better able to relate to and appreciate the justice that results. Instead of feeling pity for the victims, one finds themselves happy that Hop-Frog and Trippetta are able to get their revenge and leave the place they so hated. Hop-Frog is a good character who does to evil things but with justification.Monsieur Dupin in The Purloined Letter is very much unlike either of the aforementioned characters. This story is very different to the others addressed because there are no gruesome acts of evil, no one dies and no one is subjected to painful torture. It is somewhat uncharacteristic of what one may have come to expect from Poe. Monsieur Dupins actions are in no way evil but instead well thought out actions of wit and intelligence. He demonstrates his unconventional ways of thinking in solving the crime that others had been incompetent to....
