An Analysis Of Cthulhu Mythology

Because of horror,science fiction and fantasy works long marginalized position in the literature,although H.P.Love kraft and he’s the cthulhu myth is known as the 20 th century’s greatest classic horror novel system,the modern work has exerted a profound influence on many fields,but to the people’s attention for his degree is obviously not enough,the lack of the systematic study of Lovecraft.In China,due to the Confucian tradition and related ideology,strange and legendary texts are to a certain extent biased and ignored compared with foreign texts,and Lovecraft’s name is rarely known.Therefore,it is necessary to introduce Lovecraft systematically and comprehensively.Cthulhu myth is actually the general name of the novels written by H.P.Lovecraft.As a person who no longer believes in any religion or myth,It’s worth exploring that Lovecraft’s works are entitled to the name of myth.He frequently appear in the novel spells,religious texts,religious rites,voodoo festival and so on based on the reality and processing elements,combined with the elements of clear service in character’s mouth is called a species of god,and in the myth of science can’t hit a grey area type writing,says it is a myth is not for living.Due to the popularity of natural science in the 20 th century,people’s fear of the strange power and chaos in traditional horror and fantasy novels has been greatly weakened.Some folk horror stories have even become bedtime stories for children to get them to sleep.Under such a background,Lovecraft’s novels cannot continue to advance along the path of predecessors,but must find a new way.Hence the birth in his novels of Cthulhu,Azatos and other gods and goddesses with both traditional and scientific fantasy colors,these gods and goddesses are often from the vast expanse of space or beyond the scope of human geographical survey of the ancient objects.In addition,due to years of suffering from mental illness,Lovecraft’s supernatural monster also gives people a kind of psychopathic hallucination-like feeling,vague and elusive,making people difficult to distinguish the true from the false.This series of innovations transformed the supernatural terrors of traditional horror novels into the terrors of science and technology and the terrors of the unknown,showing Lovecraft’s transcendent vision.However,this idea could not be accepted by most people because of the crazy love of science and technology in this period.On the contrary,modern people are more and more alert to the two sides of science and technology.The ideas reflected in Lovecraft’s novels are beyond his time and gradually get people’s attention.As a link between the previous and the next works of horror novels,Lovecraft’s novels can see the inheritance of previous masters’ creation styles,such as the scene setting,atmosphere setting and environment rendering in POE’s works.Also can see Lovecraft’s unique "Lovecraft’s" horror style: still hold the lute half cover the ghost,fragmentation concealment narrative style,enhance the novel illusion sense of open ending.In addition,Lovecraft created many worldviews related to cthulhu mythology,such as his system of alien gods,ancient gods and old masters,the formless spiritual aliens,nameless creatures,and so on.Together with Lovecraft’s unique literary style,they have influenced the creation of horror,science fiction and fantasy works of later generations,and this influence is not limited to the literary field.In today’s unprecedentedly developed communication media,the film and video game fields have been affected even more.