Loss Of Innocence In Lolita And Alice's Adventures In Wonderland '

At the mention of the name Alice, one tends to usually think of the children’s stories by Lewis Carroll. Namely, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass are two classic works of children’s literature that for over a century have been read by children and adults alike. These two stories tell the tale of a young girl named Alice who finds herself in peculiar surroundings, where she encounters many different and unusual characters. Although Alice is at the centre of both stories, each tale is uniquely different in its purpose, characters and style.

Lolita is a complex story of passion, obsession, and manipulation. In the forward, Psychologist John Ray, Jr., introduces the story; "Lolita, or the Confession of a White Widowed Male,"(Nabokov, Vladmir Lolita, 3) as written by a middle-aged European pedophile named Humbert Humbert. The essentials of this title immediately strike you as controversial considering that a lolita is a promiscuous young girl and a confession is an admission of one's sins. Hum is viewed as the victimizer by others, but views himself as the victim. He blames Lolita for his disposition, but also feels responsible for causing Lolita so much pain. How can a twelve-year-old girl have so much power over an adult? Who is the victim and who is the victimizer? In the

Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a story of a young girl’s journey down the rabbit hole into a fantasy world where there seems to be no logic. Throughout Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Alice experiences a variety of bizarre physical changes, causing her to realize she is not only trying to figure out Wonderland but also trying to determine her own identity. After Alice arrives in Wonderland the narrator states, “For this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people” (Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 12). This quotation is the first instance that shows Alice is unsure of her identity. The changes in size that take place when she eats or drinks are the physical signs of her loss of identity.

Love and obsession are often misinterpreted to be the same thing, yet one can cause people to flourish, while another destroys the people involved. Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed with the childlike innocence in young girls and pursues a 12 year old girl, Lolita. Humbert and Lolita develop a sexual relationship that inevitably takes away her innocence more each time that they are together. Vladimir Nabokov uses irony and diction in Lolita to show how Humbert is obsessed with Lolita’s childlike innocence, and how his obsession leads to the destruction of the childhood that he is so desperately trying to obtain.

Instead she admits that "it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take our of it, and, burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it," (Carroll, 13). Alice's curiosity is strange because she focuses on the little details of what she sees instead of the greater picture. As aforementioned the Threshold stands a symbol of the heroine, Alice, entering a new world to attain growth. The placement of the rabbit hole, the threshold, could symbolize this change. Alice as a child will need to learn the skill of looking at the greater picture instead of focusing on the tiny aspects of it.

The infamous story of Lolita by author Vladimir Nabokov has been a controversial one since its first release in America in November 1958. The publishing world and the average readers were not prepared or interested in reading a story about a middle-aged pedophile and his twelve year old stepdaughter. People were outraged by the book and were repulsed by it, but as the moth is drawn to the flame, so are curious minds and within one week, Lolita became a best-selling book.

They say there is no remedy to growing up, period. Each individual may "grow up" at a different rate or for different reasons. Regardless of each individual's circumstances, they all end up at the same finish line. In regards to losing one's innocence, to lose it implies one has "grown up". The characters of Nabokov’s novel, Lolita, Lucas’s film, American Graffiti, and Hawthorne’s short story, Young Goodman Brown, display how one may lose their innocence, regardless of their situation, wherein deceitfulness of the victim or corrupter, "awakening" or gained information, and corruption or immorality, are each shown.

The Go-Between and Lolita are two novels that challenged childhood innocence and sexual experience. Childhood innocence is tested by child life experiences. Innocence can be depicted as the quality of ignorance. In this case, childhood innocence is portrayed through the ignorance of sex and maturation. Sexual Relationships between adolescents and adults are taboo and immoral. These relations usually have undesirable consequences for both parties. This paper will focus on the similarities and differences of two novels, in exploring sexual relations, childhood innocence and the significances of these relations.

In the beginning of the book Alice sees a rabbit wearing clothes saying he was late, so she followed it. She followed for sometime and then it disappeared down it’s hole. Alice, having poor judgment, followed it down the hole without consideration of how she would get back out. She found herself falling down a very

In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll uses third-person limited to give the reader an intimate look into the thoughts, feelings, and actions of Alice by way of an anonymous narrator. With this perspective, it is possible to see the changes Alice undergoes during her adventure in Wonderland and her feelings on them. It also adds to the mystique surrounding the motives and intentions of the other characters within the story and adds to the tension created by the nonsensical application of reason.

In order to accurately understand why Alice journey is considered a classic fairy tale, it is important to examine the context of the story. The author that gave life to Alice was born in the 17th century as Charles Dodgson, who would later adopt the name Lewis Carroll with the publishing of Alice Adventures in Wonderland. Ren explores more context on Ren in order to relay the mature themes Carroll adds to the story stating “He portrays the struggle of power between the adult and child in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and displays a strong sympathy for the child Alice who is thrown into a mad and disorderly world of adults. By sending the child into an adult world, Lewis Carroll subverts the social conventions and binary opposition between the adult and the child (Ren 2015).”Lewis Carrol story of Alice comes from the perspective of an author that had a distinct insight of children thought patterns and conversely attribute their creative minds to produce a fascinating story. The origins of the story are derived from children as the main audience, therefore, any renditions that wish to capture the essence of Carroll’s tale must keep children in the driver seat of the

Vladimir Nabokov’s, Lolita, is a transgressive novella following the pedophilic protagonists- Humbert Humbert- as he ventures to fulfill a longed sexual gratification while creating a falsified romance through increasingly immoral endeavors. Throughout the controversial plot, Lolita’s centers around the inhumanity rooted in perversity, excusing unhealthy obsession in the name of romantic love, and the submission the reader must undergo to the narrator and their ability to falsify story.

Many people are familiar with Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland.” Even if they have not read it, they have probably heard it referenced at some point or seen the classic Disney take on it. The main premise is that a little girl, named Alice, sees a white rabbit, who continuously chatters about being late for an important event. She follows the rabbit, and winds up falling down its rabbit hole into a world called Wonderland. This fantasy world allows for a surplus of new adventures, all the while teaching Alice lessons about herself. Carroll follows this book with the sequel, “Through the Looking Glass.” Similar to his original story, Alice finds herself back in Wonderland on a new adventure. In the particular passage taken out for this

Lolita, by Vladamir Nabokov is a controversial book that elaborately represents and forces the reader to deal with a pedophiles obsession with his 12-year-old stepdaughter. As the reader finishes reading Lolita, he must establish a meaning for the novel which hinges heavily upon whether or not he should forgive Humbert for his rape of Lolita and for stealing her childhood away from her. This rape is legally referred to as a statutory rape because Humbert is having sex with Lolita who is under the age of consent. Humbert also figuratively rapes Lolita of her childhood and a normal teenage life. This decision to forgive Humbert will rely upon Humbert's words as he realizes what he has done to Lolita. In

Vladimir Nabokov, one of the 20th century’s greatest writers, is a highly aesthetic writer. Most of his work shows an amazing interest in and talent for language. He deceptively uses language in Lolita to mask and make the forbidden divine. Contextually, Lolita may be viewed as a novel about explicit sexual desire. However, it is the illicit desire of a stepfather for his 12-year old stepdaughter. The novel’s subject inevitably conjures up expectations of pornography, but there in not a single obscene term in Lolita. Nabokov portrays erotic scenes and sensual images with a poetic sensibility that belies the underlying meaning of the words. The beautiful manipulation of language coerces one to understand Humbert’s interdict act of