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Movie Review : ' The Games '

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Throughout the book many games are played. I chose three games that were interesting to me the game where Lolita ask for more money, the game where she seduced Humbert, and the game where she actually plays tennis. Throughout these games some of them same things appear like sexual imaginations, control, and intelligence. Lolita plays games with Humbert in order to get what she wants knowing that she has control over his weaknesses for sexual activities. In the first passage it statesLolita asking for more money before doing Humbert’s sexual favors. “Her weekly allowance, paid to her under condition she fulfill her basic obligations, was twenty-one cents at the start of the Beardsley era--and went up to one dollar five before its end. This was a more than generous arrangement seeing she constantly received from me all kinds of small presents and had for the asking any sweetmeat or movie under the moon--although, of course, I might fondly demand an additional kiss, or even a whole collection of assorted caresses, when I knew she coveted very badly some item of juvenile amusement. She was, however, not easy to deal with. Only very listlessly did she earn her three pennies--or three nickels--per day; and she proved to be a cruel negotiator whenever it was in her power to deny me certain life-wrecking, strange, slow paradisal philters without which I could not live more than a few days in a row, and which, because of the very nature of love 's languor, I could not obtain by

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