Edgar Allan Poe creates three stories, “Hop Frog”, “Tell Tale Heart”, and “The Cask of Amontillado”. Which cause readers to question whether the narrators are justified in their actions. Readers oppose whether Hop Frog is truly justified in his actions or not. In the beginning of the story Hop frog is just like any other ordinary jester, but there were two features that set him aside from any other jester. He is a dwarf and has a walking disability; because of these features the king loves playing practical jokes on him. Even though the king treated Hop Frog terribly, he wouldn’t mind at all, but the King’s mistreatment of Hop Frog friend pushes him over the edge: “At last, without uttering a syllable, he pushed her violently from him, and…show more content… When he was hanging from the center chain he announced: “They are a great king and his seven privy-councillors, - a king who does not scruple to strike a defenceless girl and his seven councillors who abet him in the outrage. As for myself, I am simply Hop-Frog, the jester- and this is my last jest” (Poe 7). His scheme is to humiliate the king and the counselors then burn them alive. Readers could understand the emotions he felt when seeing your only friend being treated terribly, but setting flames to the king and councilors was going a little to far for…show more content… The old man did no wrong to the narrator he even stated “I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire” (Poe 2). The old man did not insult him in any way, nor did he have any money that he desired. The narrator had no reason to murder the old man, but there was one unreasonable, and bizarre reason. His eye. His eye was different from any other eye: “He had the eye of a vulture --a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold” (Poe 2). Each time the eye glared at the narrator he would turn stone cold, it was as if he was afraid of the eye. Each day he saw the eye he would gradually commit himself to murder the old man. He has killed the old man, then chopped up his body then hid the parts under the flooring of the house. Even though the old man did no harm to the narrator, and had no reason at all to commit murder. He is definitely not justified in his
