“The Dunwich Horror” was written from 1913 to 1928 and was first published in 1929. Some of the other works lovecraft wrote are “The Colour Out of Space”, The Shadow Out of Time”, and “The Outsider”. A common theme that he tends to write about is terror, he is known for using overblown adjectives. Lovecraft likes to write about creatures that come from alternate universes, he believes that that those creatures will come back to claim back the land that was once theirs. The Dunwich horror is one of the creatures that come from another universe and plan to take by his land. Hidden in the top floor of the whatley house, he is fed and taken care of until their is no one left to do so. He then escapes and attacks the people of dunwich until he is
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Lovecraft describes Lavinia, Wilbur’s mother as an “deformed, unattractive albino(Muhleman).” This shows that her appearance is different which leads the citizens to avoid her. “The mother was one of the decadent Whateleys, a somewhat deformed, unattractive albino women of thirty-five(Lovecraft).” This also shows that because she is part of the Whatley’s she is shunned. Lavinia’s father, Old man Whatley “is feared by the local populace for his practices of black magic(Muhleman).”this adds on to the fact that the Whatley’s are sunned and avoid at all cost because of the ties with santinsim and black magic. The author says that Lavinia is “living with an aged and half insane father about whom the most frightful tales of wizardry had been whispered in his youth(Lovecraft).” Lovecraft uses magic and wizardry to support the theme of terror in the …show more content…
Lovecraft shows The Dunwich horror as “an even larger version of Wilbur-yards and yards wide and more hideous, made of rope-like appendages like that of a spider or centipede, with gaping mouths lining its stalks it has red eyes and albino hair (“The Dunwich Horror”).” This shows that the monster was a terrifying and immense creature. When the creature was revealed a Whatley screamed ““Bigger’n a barn . . . all made o’ squirmin’ ropes . . . (Lovecraft).” This shows that the creature was petrifying and no one had seen anything like it. Lovecraft created the Dunwich Horror to implement terror on the reader and the other characters in the
Lovecraft describes Lavinia, Wilbur’s mother as an “deformed, unattractive albino(Muhleman).” This shows that her appearance is different which leads the citizens to avoid her. “The mother was one of the decadent Whateleys, a somewhat deformed, unattractive albino women of thirty-five(Lovecraft).” This also shows that because she is part of the Whatley’s she is shunned. Lavinia’s father, Old man Whatley “is feared by the local populace for his practices of black magic(Muhleman).”this adds on to the fact that the Whatley’s are sunned and avoid at all cost because of the ties with santinsim and black magic. The author says that Lavinia is “living with an aged and half insane father about whom the most frightful tales of wizardry had been whispered in his youth(Lovecraft).” Lovecraft uses magic and wizardry to support the theme of terror in the …show more content…
Lovecraft shows The Dunwich horror as “an even larger version of Wilbur-yards and yards wide and more hideous, made of rope-like appendages like that of a spider or centipede, with gaping mouths lining its stalks it has red eyes and albino hair (“The Dunwich Horror”).” This shows that the monster was a terrifying and immense creature. When the creature was revealed a Whatley screamed ““Bigger’n a barn . . . all made o’ squirmin’ ropes . . . (Lovecraft).” This shows that the creature was petrifying and no one had seen anything like it. Lovecraft created the Dunwich Horror to implement terror on the reader and the other characters in the