Dagon

hardest, the longest and the most widely spread of any, for it was over all the tribes. It came from the Philistines, a strong and warlike people who lived on the west of Israel upon the plain beside the Great Sea. They were blasphemy towards Yahweh Dagon, which was made in the form of a fish 's head on a man 's body. These people, the Philistines, sent their armies up from the plain beside the sea to the mountains of Israel and overran all the land. They took away from the Israelites all their swords

around the notion of fear and the unknown will be identified and explored in three of Lovecraft’s stories: Dagon (1919), The Picture in the House (1920), and The Outsider (1926). This essay seeks to not only decipher the nature of the unknown presented within each story, but the nature of the fear in which each unknown entity provokes. While the unknown entity presented in Lovecraft’s Dagon (1919) and The Picture in the House (1920), are subject to the narrator’s fears, in The Outsider (1926), Lovecraft

Dagon is a short story written by the American horror and fantasy writer H.P. Lovecraft in 1917. The story began with an unknown narrator telling the story of his abduction by the German sea-raiders. Later on, the protagonist continues the story of his successful escape in a small boat from these sea-raiders. After being lost for days in the sea, the man became haunted by his dreams, nightmares, and delusions. He told the story of how he was asleep and unexpectedly found himself in the middle of

ACT 1 The opera begins in the shadow of the temple of the god Dagon, with a crowd of Hebrews complaining about their suffering at the hands of the Philistines. There is a short orchestral introduction before they begin to sing of their strife, and it truly represents how low the people feel, with its low, sad strings. Samson emerges, practically begging them to trust in their God. They are slow to respond, but Samson is so persuasive, and the vocal line represents this by being so sweeping and regal

The story “Dagon,” by H.P. Lovecraft reminds me of Francis Stevens’ “Friend Island.” In both stories, the main characters are stranded in the middle of the ocean on an unknown body of land, and in both stories, the main characters encounter fantastical things that no one will probably believe later on. “Dagon” is the incredibly dark twin to “Friend Island,” however, as the narrator encounters monstrous beings, is faced with dread and horror, and ultimately kills himself at the end of the story because

complex for the human mind to comprehend, resulting in characters to slowly become insane. The characters of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, and Hamlet from their respective Shakespeare plays as well as the unnamed narrator in H.P. Lovecraft’s short story Dagon express this belief as they each struggle to maintain sanity after their experiences with powerful, unknown forces. Supernatural beings play significant roles in several of Shakespeare’s plays, but take on detrimental roles in many of his tragedies

the vibrations from the machine. They were present in loathsome profusion, and I saw to my horror that they overlapped; that they were semi-fluid and capable of passing through one another and through what we know as solids. ” (11). Similar to the Dagon, the creatures in this story resemble sea creatures. Also, this description shows that these creatures have the ability to pass through solid objects. This is out of this world because nothing in this dimension possesses the power to pass through solid

plague paintings of the seventeenth century. The painting represents the Old Testament story from passages in the First Book of Samuel. According to the scriptures, the Philistines had stolen the Ark of the Covenant and brought it to the statue of Dagon. This angered God and he plagued the citizens of Ashdod with tumors and swarmed the territory with rats. In 1630, while Poussin worked on the painting, Italy was stricken with the worst outbreak of the bubonic plague. This had a major influence on

The Posture of Prayer: An Islamic and Christian Perspective Communication: The Basis of Life Islam, Judaism and Christianity are three of the world’s great monotheistic faiths. They share not only many of the same holy sites, such as Jerusalem, and prophets and patriarchs, such as Abraham; but also the many practices and beliefs such as prayer, ablutions, and strong familial ties of the patriarch and others before him. Collectively, scholars refer to these three religions as the Abrahamic faiths

message to the rest of the people. However, in 1 Samuel, chapter 5, God does not use a human being to communicate His will. Instead, He simply knocks over the statue of the Philistine god, Dagon, breaking off its head and hands and afflicts those near the Ark with tumors. When the supernatural vanquishing of Dagon and the accompanying plague disturb the Philistines sufficiently, they wisely decide to return the Ark