Character Analysis Of Charlotte And The Roles Of The Suburban Housewife

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The relationship between Annabel and Humbert is one marked with sexual restraint. Humbert describes an important sexual encounter, when they escaped to a mimosa grove while their chaperones play bridge, in great depth and it is this encounter that haunts Humbert for the rest of his life. Shortly after this moment, Annabel is called away by her mother and Humbert never gets to reach his sexual climax. He also never sees Annabel again because she dies of typhus four months later. Because of her death, Annabel is kept sacred and perfect in Humbert’s memory. The unsuccessful first tryst plagues the rest of Humbert’s relationships with women. Ellen Pifer reiterates this in her book, Demon and Doll, saying that “It is Humbert’s longing for the unattainable, for ideal perfection – what he calls the ‘rosegray never-to-be-had’ – that fires his imagination and fuels his desire for nymphet beauty” (68). This unattainable perfection which Pifer speaks of appears to be the ever-young Annabel.

Ironically, Charlotte's jealousy leads her to find out the truth of Humbert's feelings towards Lolita and in an attempt to expose him for the pedophile he really is, it struck by a vehicle and killed.

He uses Lolita’s childlike innocence in an attempt to regain some childhood that he never had, yet him trying to to gain this childhood from Lolita only destroys the childhood that she has, and forces her to grow up as he once did. Humbert’s perverse desires to claim Lolita’s childhood destroy any chance that he has to gain one and Lolita’s childhood. When Humbert goes after Lolita he wants to do everything with her remaining oblivious to his acts. yet that is almost impossible, and the more he pursued, the more she reciprocated his advances. Humbert will never be satisfied in his relationship for Lolita because she can not stay the innocent girl that he has created in his head. Every time Humbert comes into contact with her, the more she is forced to grow out of her innocence and the less appealing she becomes to Humbert. However Humbert refuses to accept that the Lolita he has concocted is not real. He goes after Lolita with an obsessive nature. His need to recreate his past love drives him. Yet this insatiable need for a pure innocent child is impossible for him to ever

Nabokov uses a letter to Humbert from Lolita to insure that although she says mean things about him and repeatedly insults hum she does in fact feel a strong attraction to Humbert. Nabokov’s purpose in this excerpt is to convey how Loloita hides her love for Humbert by telling him to leave. To achieve this hidden meaning Nabokov uses Lolita’s dialogue and sarcasm. Although Lolita knows she is in love with Humbert she thinks if she points out their differences in opinion she may lose her feelings toward Humbert. Nabokov uses Lolita’s tone towards Humbert to prove she does love him even while she is saying things about him that she doesn’t love. Nabokov ultimately uses Lolita’s dialogue to show hidden meaning in Lolita’s letter.

As I slipped my arm down to her waist, I felt her tremble, but she kept staring in the direction of the orchestra, She was pretending to be concentrating on the music so that she wouldn’t have to respond to me. She didn’t want to know what was happening.” Both Charlie and Alice were uncomfortable and didn’t know what to expect or do. However, as we start to climb to the climax Charlie starts to understand and wants the responsibility of a relationship with Alice, but struggles with past memories and dreams of his mother, who was abusive to his so called “sexutuall actions and looks.” As Charlie put it in his conversation to Alice he said, “It’s Charlie, the little boy who’s afraid of women because of the things his mother did to him. Don’t you see?All these months while I’ve been growing up intellectually, I’ve still had the emotional writing of the childlike Charlie. And every time I came close to you, or thought about making love to you, there was a short circuit.” After Charlie’s outburst at the presentation in New York Charlie finds an apartment and soon after meets his neighbor Fay, who is sextually active and interests Charlie immediately after they

This quotation, from the novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, follows Humbert Humbert’s, the protagonist, train of thought after he has sex with his step-daughter Lolita for the first time. This quotation is significant as it reveals Humbert’s selfish and manipulative character, as well as the recurring motif of male fantasy.

Edgar Allan Poe married his aunt’s daughter Virginia, who at age thirteen was seven years his junior. Poe’s aunt also happened to be his landlady at the time (Lepore). In the same way, Humbert started an explicit relationship with Charlotte’s daughter, Dolores, age thirteen, after Charlotte’s death. Charlotte was Humbert’s landlady. This is an example of art imitating life. Humbert fancies himself a poet with discerning taste in “nymphets,” which excuses his preference for young girls because they are subhuman devils. Humbert

Secondly, when Humbert got older he felt like he needed to get married to suppress his sexual desires for young nymphets, so he married Valeria. However, Humbert didn’t really love her. The reason why he chooses to marry Valeria is that she was a very young looking graceful girl, who reminded him of nymphets, thus she would still able to assure him a certain sense of pleasure: “…what really attracted me to Valeria was the imitation she gave of a little girl.” “Imitation she gave of a little girl” with an innocent pout and cute curls (Nabokov 25). Even when married to her, Humbert knows that his true feelings are those for little girls. Then, he decides that the only way he can be with Lolita is by marrying her mother Charlotte. He knows Charlotte has feeling for him, so he manipulates her into his will. Again Humbert will go to extremes to have what he wants. He also tricks Charlotte into taking sleeping pills so he can have some alone time with his beloved Dolly. To make sure that Lolita stays with him when Charlotte died he starts to tell people that he had an affair with her in the past, so that they can think she’s his biological daughter. Once she’s left with him, he takes her on a trip all around the United States, as if he wanted her just for himself. Even after the trip he tries to have control over Lola by enrolling her in an only girl school and by not allowing Lolita to go out with other boys. Also she is not allowed to do play for the school’s performance. If he felt the slightest feeling that Lolita is starting to stray away he starts paying her an allowance. Finally, Humbert’s need for control is defined when he loses control over Lolita because she runs away with Quilty. The only thing that matters now to Humbert is to get revenge on the person who has took Dolores

In the simplest terms, this novel can be described as the two-part story of Humbert Humbert’s relationship with Lolita. In Part 1 he addresses her as his property and takes her, and in Part 2 he loses her. Humbert follows a journey of growing insanity, which eventually leads him to murder. The motivating desire shifts from his lust, and his sexual relations with Lolita in the first half, to manslaughter in the second. The two are complete opposites: one gives life, the other takes it. I find it ironic that the reason Humbert is initially arrested is not for the murder of Clare Quilty, or his illegal relations with Lolita, but for speeding and running a red light. However, Humbert believes his only crime was raping Lolita and accepts full

At first, Lolita’s innocence is like any normal eleven-year old’s, happy and carefree. She is comfortable with H.H. and exhibits games appropriate to her age. For example, as H.H. is trying to read “two deft little hands were over [his] eyes: she had crept up from behind” and surprises him (60). The action is the epitome of innocence to Lolita as it fills her with “hiccups of laughter” (60). Lolita’s innocent presence causes him to fixate upon the interaction for days after as it is turned into a perversion.

“In the middle of the night she came sobbing into my room, and we made it up very gently. You see, she had absolutely nowhere else to go” (142). Lolita doesn’t recognize the power Humbert has over her. “Sometimes…while Lolita would be haphazardly preparing her homework, sucking a pencil, lolling sideways in an easy chair with both legs over its arm, I would shed all my masculine pride—and literally crawl on my knees to your chair, my Lolita! You would give me one look—a gray furry question mark of a look: ‘Oh no, not again’ (incredulity, exasperation); for you never deigned to believe that I could, without any specific designs, ever crave to bury my face in your plaid skirt.”

Summer talks about the story of a young woman’s discovery of sexual desire. From the start, Charity is completely inexperienced when it comes to men. Charity is first attracted and is intrigued by Harney and starts to develop feelings for him as she spends more time with him. All she desires is sexual fulfillment. The novel opens with nothing going on in town and then she steps down from the buggy. As she looks at him through the bathroom window, she feels “All her old resentments and… confusedly mingled with the yearning roused by Harney’s nearness.” (chapter 7, page 3) And when they have begun their affair, she feels that “all the rest of life” (Wharton 1) has become the central glory of their passion. Charity waits for Harney in their secret

Humbert is incredibly self-conscious throughout the whole story, of himself and of his language; it is through this that the metafictional nature of the text shows itself, reflecting on the power of language and the story-telling process. Humbert reminds the reader constantly that his whole world is constructed: “Darling, this is only a game!” He does not have to abide by the restrictive constraints of truth because this is his game, this is his story. “Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,” (9) he addresses the reader, inviting him, daring him, even, to judge the “tangle of thorns” he is about to lay down. Given the deliberate contrariety that is about to follow, the games, puzzles and fantasies, Humbert inviting the reader to judge for themselves

Lolita becomes ill, and is forced to go to the hospital. Humbert comes into the hospital one morning only to find that she has been checked out of by another man.