Internal Conflict In Lolita

Literature often portrays and focuses on the characters that have many conflicts, and in this case they are internal conflicts. This perspective is noticed in “Lolita” by Vladimir Nabokov, “Ethan Frome” by Edith Wharton, and “Dead Poets Society” (script written by Tom Schulman). These writers focused on the theme of moral uncertainty with their main characters to compare and contrast what a person should believe in or do and what that person actually wants to do. Moral uncertainty is bound to be faced in powerful main characters when some of their beliefs aren't popular in society or within their social group; Humbert Humbert's immoral love for an underage girl, Frome's love for another woman, and Perry's love for acting. The attraction between Humbert and Dolores throughout the first past of the book is purely sexual. Dolores is 12 years old at the time and Humbert is 36. In today’s society, any type of relationship like this is inappropriate and pedophilic; “...she, with an impatient wriggle, pressed her mouth into mine so hard that I felt her big front teeth and shared in the peppermint taste of her saliva” (Lolita, 113). Humbert, since the day he moved in with Charlotte and Dolores, has wanted to become this close …show more content…
Humbert falling with a twelve-year-old girl, Ethan falling in love with his wife’s vibrant younger cousin, and Neil going against his father’s “falling in love” with theatre. The relevance of these conflicts in literature is that it symbolizes real life and how everything we do might not be right in society’s eyes, but right in our eyes. Some readers and other literary writers may not agree with the character’s decisions in any way, they are the society that I could be offending with my statement to defend these