The Call Of Cthulhu Research Paper

As Mount Vesuvius shook the earth, the people of Pompeii were terrified. Not only was it a celebration, but all the pompeians were in the center of town. Right in front of the dreaded Vesuvius. Each convulse, throwing lapilli (rocks) at the citizens of Pompeii. Some started to scream. Others tried to remain calm and lead their family to the ‘safety’ of their basements. But most stood in shock. This day will be remembered for many millenniums. There are many points of comparison a reader can make to “Dog of Pompeii” by: Louis Untermeyer and “Pompeii” by: Robert Silverberg. Tone and point of view are among a few of the largest similarities in these stories. They both portray the ominous hardship of this time. They also portray how even in times

Atlantis: The Lost Empire tells the story of an inexperienced young researcher, Milo Thatch, who, inspired by his grandfather who often spoke of a lost continent, is determined to discover the underwater city: Atlantis. Set in 1914, the adventure ensues when an extremely wealthy friend of Milo’s grandfather not only provides Milo with a journal containing

Pseudo-history, pseudo-science, and pseudo-archaeology have delivered ‘proof’ of numerous sites where Atlantis, the lost city of which Plato wrote, could have thrived and then suffered total destruction

The Call of Cthulhu is a horror story that is able to break through and cause terror. The horror comes from forcing the reader to witness awful and unexplainable things happen to the characters in the story, especially without the ability to prevent the misfortunes from happening. It becomes terror because Lovecraft places the entire story in our reality rather then a fictional setting. Becuase of this, we are forced to relate the story’s events to our physical world. It inflicts a sense of danger by insinuating that the forces in the story exist around us. Lovecraft is able to effectively place the imaginary story in our physical world by arming the story in science and logic, using familiar references and locations, and makes you an unofficial

The destruction of Pompeii came about when Mount Vesuvius erupted on August 24 AD 79. This eruption was not your stereotypical eruption. The mountain exploded in a long smoldering burst of pumice ash and rock. The eruption covered Pompeii and the neighboring city of Herculaneum in over thirteen feet of pumice and ash, burning and destroying almost all of the city 's. The eruption was said to last over twenty four hours. Turning day to night with clouds of dust and ash. ¨100-miles-per-hour surge of superheated poison gas and pulverized rock–poured down the side of the mountain and swallowed everything and everyone in its path. (¨History.com Staff. “Pompeii.” History.com.) Around 16,000 people died in the eruption. (“Mount Vesuvius - Italy.” ) When Mount Vesuvius erupted many people were unprepared, just standing and watching the volcano until the eruption was on top of them. Many people thought it was just a tremor or earthquake before the mountain exploded and it was too late. Many people did try and escape. Escaping by boat was impossible, the only real way to escape was to go south away from the volcano. There was mass panic in the heart of the city and most people didn 't get out in time. ¨Though my shocked

      Atlantis is known to most people as a legend or myth written by the Greek poet Plato, but is it possible that this lost continent really existed? Is it all legend or could there be some fact to it? Contrary to common belief there have been numerous geological and historical findings that actually give proof to the existence of this lost city. In the book Imagining Atlantis it tells us the story written by Plato. "According to ancient Egyptian temple records the Athenians fought an aggressive war against the rulers of Atlantis some nine thousand years earlier

In the geological world, Mount Vesuvius’ eruption, and consequently the destruction of Pompeii, is one of the most discussed and debated of history. Pompeii was a large Roman town, which was located on the island of Campania. Pompeii is no longer the same as it used to be. Pompeii was a normal town until 79 CE. On this day Mt. Vesuvius erupted and covered the town in ash. Some people believed the universe was being resolved into fire. The ash filled in the air, seas, and land. Ash fell into ships, the closer the ship’s went, the darker and denser.

of a philosopher. The city is nothing but a myth “Atlantis is a fascinating legend, but

The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James, is ghost story that focuses on a young governess that encounters a pair of ghosts. These ghosts play an important role in the story, but there has always been a debate over whether the ghosts exist inside the story, or if they exist only in the governess’ head. There is evidence within the book to support either claim, so the reality of the apparitions ultimately depends on the reader’s opinion. This paper will support the opinion that the two ghosts that the governess sees are ultimately just figments of her imagination. Even though the governess’ ghosts are not real, she believes them to be real, and her reaction to this belief precipitates the unfortunate conclusion.

Isabel Allende's “The House of the Spirits” is ambitious in its personal and political choice, and in its sheer beauty. Her elegant style laces easily between the two different points of view in the book: the masculine grandfather clinging to the past, and his forward-thinking, softhearted granddaughter. All of Allende's characters are complex and beautifully recognized. This marvelous novel is a great literary achievement on every level, as it perfectly interlaces the characters' personal and political passions and the important events of their times.

In the short story, “The Call of Cthulhu” by H.P. Love Craft, Cthulhu is described multiple times throughout the story a giant, otherworldly, unimaginable monster with ancient origins. What if Cthulhu is more than a giant evil monstrosity but is a representation of madness itself, and like the narrator, the reader is doomed to a fate of madness and there’s nothing we can do about it. The story is split into three chapters that introduces us to Thurston and Angell who learned of Cthulhu and starts researching about it, then in chapter two it gives us more detail about the fanatic cult and then in the third chapter, we learn a horrible truth behind the monster and the cult. The story shows how anyone who knows or anyone who even conceives the idea of Cthulhu becomes crazy or even dies. This fate has happened to the great uncle Angell, the narrator Thurston, and even possibly us as the reader.

Many mysteries are hidden deep in the world. Hearing of them, most people just brush them off as childish myths. Attempting to prove them wrong will be difficult. What if some mysteries are real? Are we just not looking Hard enough? Maybe our logic is forcing us to ignore our imagination. Despite other theories, Atlantis is not just a Fairy Tale.

fter living at the bottom of a volcano for over six hundred years, you would think that the people of Pompeii would at least be aware that it was not, in fact, just a giant mountain. Or that someone would be curious enough to go up there and say, “Hey guys. There’s a big crater-type thing up here. It doesn’t look safe.” But no. It wasn’t until August 24th, 79 A.D. that they discovered that yes, lava could actually come out of the mountain and kill them. And that’s exactly what it did.

In “The Call of Cthulhu,” H.P. Lovecraft makes use of a more psychological horror path, which is a major aspect of Lovecraftian horror. Psychological horror uses more suspense build up and shock than blood and gore. H.P. Lovecraft accomplishes this by using a buildup of suspense, not revealing the ‘monster’ till the end while hinting at what the ‘monster’ is throughout the story. H.P. Lovecraft writes the main character following his great uncle's manuscript and piecing together the puzzle of “the Great Ones.” H.P. Lovecraft also creates the sense of suspense by making the main character’s inner dialogue contain the main characters emotions and thoughts of suspect. Another example of the use of psychological horror is when Henry Anthony Wilcox dreams of “the Great Ones,” and experiences a period of mental breakdown that physicians could not identify. Once Henry Anthony Wilcox came out of the episode he remembered nothing, creating a shock factor, and making the reader ask “how did that happen?”

Lovecraft begins the story by saying “The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all it's contents.” It shows that the narrator is perhaps unstable, and vulnerable. It puts him in a place of knowledge over the reader as well, perhaps making the reader feel just as vulnerable as he is, since the line implies that there is something that he knows that we as a collective don't, and that it should terrify us. The positioning of the line, at the very beginning, is meant to be a power play, to assert to the reader that the narrator is the one who is much more informed, and from the rest of the text, we know that he is.