Any literature enthusiasts tell me what Cthulhu is a symbol of

Any literature enthusiasts tell me what Cthulhu is a symbol of

Death

Ultimate Truth

the fear of the unknown

Fear

Man's folly

He's a symbol of a big ass squid looking mother fucking elder god. Don't look so hard into the meaning of shit you idiot.

An abomination

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Hes a symbol of me stickin me dick in yer mum

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He's some racist motherfucker's idea of like the worst thing ever I guess

It's cosmological horror. It's all fear of the unknown combined with how small and insignificant we are compared to the universe.

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Lovecraft thought seafood was icky.

Tentacle rape and fishy pussy

Reported

well in the mythos hes closer to Satan than anything else, the very invocation of him would make you question everything about yourself and probably drive you insane. But from a literary stand point hes Lovecraft's condensed fear of the new knowledge of the size of the universe our insignificance in it, as well as his own insignificance in his times. Also he was a seriously mentally ill but covered it with an intense intellect. he wouldve wrote some very cool fantasy or became a prophet if he wasnt such an anxious nervous pussy

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Just got reported again.

Agreed. Lovecraft wrote
Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion in man and fear of the unkown is the oldest and strongest kind of fear.

ignore other posts

the symbol is ultimate hopelessness

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Phew, a whole lot of people getting reported tonight. Hope it was worth it.

just side note... maybe not as much a symbol as we thought?
given his estimated size and location in the ocean according to the novels, and the origin of the big "bloop" which was also used to calculate a rough size, it's very possible he's real...

just a couple google and wiki searches can get you 90% of the information you'd need to know on that.

Duality of man

How

To remind people that Jews are evil

/thread

Dubs speak the truth, as a Lovecraft fan I concur

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Revelation.
Not the biblical kind the kind where you look through a couple of books, explore a few things and talk to a few people and come to realize something new and profound.

Cthulhu symbolizes that this revelation might challenge humanities place in the world, all its previous knowledge and the very foundations of human intelligence.

H.P. Lovecraft created Cthulhu in the 1920's a time where humanity was just starting to lose its belief that it was on top of the world. WW1 had just been the bloodiest thing imaginable and WW2 is just around the corner. Scientists discovered the universe is thousands of times bigger than was previous thought and religion was being less and less relevant.

Cthulhu represent that if we continue to advance scientifically we will find something so terrible or something that makes us seem so insignificant that mankind will lose all potency and relevance. Obviously it’s a very existential type of horror born of its time which seems strange in modern times.

The first quote of the Call of Cthulhu really sums up what HPL was going for.
>”The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.”

Sure Cthulhu is monstrous and able to kill us all with a thought. But the real terror comes not that he COULD kill us all, but that something exists like him. His existence makes our own lives less meaningful, we aren’t the strongest or smartest residents of earth anymore.

Been reading HP for half of my life now. This is correct.

Another important thing I should mention is the end of the story which is frequently confusing for people and stems from a lack of perspective.
>At the end of the story, Cthulhu gets hit by a Tramp Steamer and pops like a gaseous balloon.
>He then immediately reforms and continues walking like nothing happened.

To many this makes Cthulhu seem weak but it is mean to prove a point. In 1926 when the story was written what was the largest, most advanced piece of technology mankind had? It was the massive Tramp Steamer. It was the pinnacle of 1920’s technology and engineering. It hits Cthulhu and what does it do? Nothing. He reforms and ignores it like beesting. Our best piece of technology can’t even phase the guy.If the story had been written later the ship might have been replaced with a nuke or something else but the point still stands. Mankind best isn’t good enough. We’re not as powerful as we once thought and that’s scary.

This is also correct.And I learned something about Tramp Steamers and their literary context. Thank you.

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You sound like me when I was 11 and my dad told me about this shit.

Not in the full sense I imagine not, but a creature may exist, given the sound it can't be simply ignored

Yeah but the dude just quits after that

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Women's suffrage.

I wouldnt be surprised if we found some sort of superwhale in the deepest parts of the ocean but I think space is our best bet of finding something like Cthulhu.

An incomprehensible and apathetic horror that cant be defeated.

Or black people maybe

Whales need to surface for air you dumbfuck.

speaking of satan.... fucking satan duh

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There are many who believe HPL to be some kind of prophet similar to Aleister Crowley. There's entire secret societies like the Typhonian Order and the Esoteric Order of Dagon (an actual one look them up) dedicated to HPL or their combined writings. People believe in this stuff a lot. That is why Alan Moore wrote Neonomicon and is writing Providence, hes also into a lot of occulty stuff, but they all see him as a guy that was given immense knowledge about the origin of the world, who just wasnt able to process it outside his own fears and nervousness and who created horror stories instead of biblical accounts.
The big Bloop is proven to be Ice cracking from an underwater earthquake, HPL just chose that location because its the deepest point of the ocean

He's a symbol of doing your own fucking homework you cretinous moron.

>Calls his dick Cthulhu