Short Analysis – Pan’s Labyrinth and The Call of Cthulhu (Related Text)

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“Re-imagined worlds offer the opportunity to explore the possibilities of different realities.” What insights into different realities have the texts you have studied offered? Make close reference to Pan’s Labyrinth and ONE related text of your own choosing. INTRO: The construction and exploration of different realities through reimagined worlds elucidate greater insights into the human struggle against established and often uncontrollable forces. H.P Lovecraft’s 1928 short story The Call of Cthulhu, in its exegesis, is an exploration of mortality and humanity’s relationship with uncontrollable and inevitable facets of existence, depicted within the lens of Gothic Cosmicism. H.P Lovecraft’s Gothic reimagining of death in his 1928 short story The Call of Cthulhu illuminates the universal struggle to accept the inevitability of mortality as an ungovernable facet of existence. Guillermo Del Toro’s 2006 film Pan’s Labyrinth disorientates its audience through a postmodern hybridisation of the historical war drama and fantasy genres to evoke an emotional response, utilising the imagination of another reality to evince on the human response to oppressive power dichotomies and obedience. The examination of different realities within these texts lends credence to the notion of reimagined worlds serving as a vessel to catalysing a sophisticated understanding of the universal struggles against established forces present in our own reality