'Reading Lolita In Tehran'

Art does not need to be beautiful to be art. Although that may have been the prevailing definition according to aesthetic theorists throughout history of art, it is not a requirement of art. Art does not necessarily need to bring pleasure to the viewer; art can be disturbing. What makes it art is that it communicates feelings between the artist and evokes these feelings with others. Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov, although critiqued to be dark and twisted, should be considered a work of art. Nabokov wrote the book intentionally and with a purpose; he explored the emotions deliberately and managed to find the right words to express his work to the readers. Lolita draws the reader in not only because it was written so eloquently but also

As American essayist and social critic H.L. Mencken wrote, “The average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe.” To be free is to have the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without restraint. This type of freedom can be offered in many places whether it be home, school, or work. Safety is the condition of being protected from or unlikely to because risk, danger, or injury. Safety should be seen as an advantage to have because it’s never truly guaranteed. Most people claim they are proud of the freedoms their nations offer, though many people manifest the willingness to give up these freedoms to secure personal safety.

Having freedom is what makes the people who they are as humans, and what they are meant to be. Freedom is simple as saying small and easy things, "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows" (Orwell 84). Before anything else, freedom is the most important thing they can all have, because without it,

The idea behind freedom is to be respectful and useful to our society but also to do so at your own wishes. Freedom is important to everyone. If someone is deprived from this innate right, they will either lose an essence of their soul or go mad. When freedom is guaranteed, a person can think freely, go anywhere they want, speak their opinion freely without fear from other people who would cause harm to them for their opinion. Freedom of opinion is among the most important aspects of freedom. In some societies where freedom of opinion is not

The freedom of every individual human comes by its liberty first to be safe. Being unrestricted gives each human their rights of living in peace because the rights of freedom is better to have to be able to live life with no fear in the world. like once Patrick Henry said “Give me liberty or give me death”, this can be seen from the Civil Right Movement, “The boy in the striped pajamas” and the Holocaust prove the struggles faced to be in liberty.

Freedom lets us walk wherever we want. Freedom lets us wear whatever we want. Freedom lets us sleep peacefully. Freedom lets us eat any food not one certain food. Freedom gives us the power to speak out our thoughts out loud.

Should Freedom be given or must be demanded? Freedom should be demanded because freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demand by the oppressor, quoted by Martin Luther King Jr. The Emancipation Proclamation stated that Africans Americans are free but we were “never” free. Also, The March on Washington was an important event that had made a change in our lives and our freedom. The Declaration of Independence was a statement that announced that the thirteen colonies are not under British rules. In my opinion, we should not have to fight for our freedom and we should all be equal.

Freedom to me is being able to learn from your mistakes. If I did not have freedom, I would have to do what the top officials tell me I have to do. They would tell me what books to read, what religion to study, and even what food to eat. I wouldn’t

The opportunity of freedom is a base for your life. It puts you in a position and gives you the time to look at yourself, to look at the world and to decide what you will do with your life. Everyone will look at life with a different approach. See life through different glasses. We all have our own approach to life and no matter what handicaps of scientifical fixes people try to do we can never be totally and fully equal to one another. All our differences put together form a community, a city and our

Freedom isn’t given, it’s most definitely taken. There are far more factors playing against freedom than there are supporting freedom such as the greed for power, the countless secrets of multiple governments, and segregation. It may seem easy to some, but freedom is a blood, guts, and glory kind of deal. No country has ever received freedom before battling in a gruesome war or developing an uproar.

You never get handed anything in life. There is a catch to everything, therefore nothing comes without a price. Many people can ask for things but that does not mean they will receive what was requested. Some may favor the outcome while others may not favor the outcome. Freedom should be based character. In “Lolita in Tehran”, Lolita has to cover up her appearance, no matter how her character is or how smart she is. She has no say along with the rest of the women of Iran. People who have good characters should be granted their

Freedom should be demanded, because not everyone listens when you ask for something, if anything people would laugh at these people who want freedom and not take them seriously when they do ask for freedom. If people take a stand and demand what they really want and show they want it and fight for it there would be people standing up with that one person too, then there would be an uprising on how people need freedom and demand it even more. A great example would be the the day Martin Luther King Jr. took a stand and said his word on how there needs to be freedom and how it must be demanded in order for us to get it, the day the pastor took a stand and demanded freedom for his people (blacks) and as he kept saying his word and talking about freedom for the blacks more and more people agreed with him and took a stand. It is a great example of how freedom should be demanded and not given.

There are the positives of having freedom as well as negatives. Living in the United States you are not required to do anything as for example China it is a state law that makes them learn martial arts. We have the freedom over here to do as we wish in most situations, like we can go to college, we can work even though they set certain hours that we can work but then again we can pick a shift. Having your freedom is the most important thing in the world because it gives you the right to do as you wish. To me I think that some people take their freedom for granted, doing stupid stuff like committing a crime that they get locked up for. We all have certain things that we enjoy and even though

Freedom means living life as one wants, everything else is a form of slavery. If a person is not allowed to make his or hers decisions, if he or she is not free to live life as he/she wants than he/she doesn’t have power over his or her existence. If freedom was not essential for every human being than no one would have found so fiercely for it. If it was not important than today we would not be still fighting to keep and extend our freedom.

First, what is freedom? It's an ambiguous term that can hold many different meanings to different people. Where a person comes from, their socio-economic status, their race, age, gender and other factors play a role in defining what freedom is. It's used in many different senses, for example: is freedom being able to do as you like