Lolita

Lolita, is a well written, yet horrifically plotted novel that was written by Vladmir Nabokov. The novel follows the life story of a man named Humbert Humbert. Humbert was raised at his father’s hotel resort since a young age, where he was a single child and often left alone to his inventions because his mother died when he was young. He was always lavished with attention from the ladies that visited the resort as they all felt terrible for him having to grow up motherless. As time passes, He grows up to be a gentleman. In his young teenage years, he meets a young lady named Annabelle who catches his fancy. They fall in “love” and spend the summer trying to have sex but always being interrupted. Eventually Annabelle leaves and a few months…

Unusual Pleasures In the book Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, we learn very quickly that the main characters in the novel have what most would consider a very perverted relationship. Humbert and Lolita are the main characters in this tale. Humbert is a middle-aged man engaged to Lolita’s mother, Charlotte. This book is the story of Humbert’s intense love and obsession for Lolita, Charlotte’s daughter. Throughout the novel, we find out that Humbert’s pleasures and Lolita’s pleasures are far from…

Resembling John Keats in, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Humbert Humbert, from Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, envies the past innocence and youth that transforms overtime into a relationship of disenchantment, disillusion and destruction with a child. Through textual evidence, one can see that Humbert’s desires for the past love affair with Annabel, his young counterpart who dies before their consummation, manifests into a relationship with Dolores Haze, a young girl who resembles his young past lover. Time…

Although his beliefs are still extremely controversial, psychologists remain influenced by his ideas today. Furthermore, this influence extends past just the fields of science; art, literature, and film are all ripe with Freudian impressions. Both Marnie, a film produced by Alfred Hitchcock, and Lolita, a novel written by Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov, are psychoanalytic by nature. In Marnie, a young girl who likes to steal from the companies she works at suffers from deep psychological…

The picture of persuasion Vladimir Nabokov paints throughout Lolita cues the reader through its language, stylistic devices of repetition, metaphor and alliteration. This passage is no exception as the readers is thrown into a pool of ambiguity, left to their own devices and the seduction of Humbert Humbert to discern what is right or wrong? Worthy of forgiveness? Is Charlotte’s death Humbert’s fault? There are no clear answers and this is precisely what makes good literature what makes Lo lee…

novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, the narrator Humbert Humbert tells the reader about his life before prison that he has spent desperately trying to fulfill his pedophiliac fantasies and essentially recreating his scarred youth. The theme of the novel is an obsession with youth, not in himself but in innocent young girls, showing the reader the inner turmoil Humbert struggles with when he describes the many failed attempts to replace his tragically lost teenage love Annabel Leigh. With this…

LOLITA ‘While Humbert is perfectly willing to say that he is a monster, the reader of Lolita finds herself unable to agree with that assessment’. Discuss. ‘Vladimir Nabokov uses the chestnut tree as a symbol of death and extinction in his 1955 novel Lolita. Humbert Humbert refers early on to the chestnut and later, during their cross-country trip west, likens their sojourn to the westward spread of the American chestnut tree.’ Ann McCauley Basso’s interpretation of Vladimir Nabokov’s novel…

In Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov writes about the filthy relationship between Lolita, a young girl, and Humbert Humbert, her pedophilic stepfather, and the lasting effect it has on both of them. Nabokov adopts a shameful tone in order to convey unhealthy obsession can cause major changes in one’s perception of reality. This excerpt demonstrates that this novel uses first person narrator. This author uses this narrator to reveal the theme that unhealthy obsession can cause major changes in one’s…

spellbinding. The impression of my love is forever engrained into my heart and soul. In Lolita, written by Vladimir Nabokov, we can observe the main character, Humbert Humbert, and his insatiable desire to know Lolita. Humbert claims that it is Lolita that is to blame for his neurotic infatuation. In reading Lolita, we can see how Lolita not only fulfills the nymphet archetype, but may also possess some of the seductive attributes of a femme fatale. By analyzing Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov,…

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisis, published in 2003, tells the story and observation of a women who brought eight students into her home for discussion of literature each week. In 1995 “I decided to indulge myself and fulfill a dream.”(184). states the narrator. Seven females and one male attended. As the women packed her things to leave Tehran her students and herself began to take photographs against the empty wall. One taken covered how they were forced to spend every moment of…