As Jean-Paul Sartre once stated “man is a useless passion. It is meaningless that we live and it is meaningless that we die” (Jean-Paul Sartre). Numerous people question the meaning of human life and its importance. Whether we are useless to understand the world in which we inhabit and are succumb to violence. Throughout the short story “The Call of Cthulhu”, Herbert Phillips Lovecraft conveys elements regarding the theme of horror through topics of the fear of inexistence and violence.
Society’s fear of inexistence produces the sense of horror as a result of the meaningless of human life. Reveling the ridiculousness of humanity, Lovecraft states that “the most merciful thing in the world is the inability of the human mind to correlate all