Lolita Essay

A man of many talents, Vladimir Nabokov is known not only for his controversial work Lolita, he was also an avid lepidopterist – in particular, butterflies. There is no doubt that when penning Lolita’s character, Nabokov imprinted several butterfly characteristics on her. This essay however does not seek to investigate the parallels between Lolita and the metamorphosis of a butterfly. Rather, it takes the road less travelled and examines the parallels between Nabokov and Humbert Humbert, not as a

scarce able to afford Suppression of the glee, that pursed and scored Its edge, at one more victim gained thereby. (lines 1-6) Nabokov’s character Humbert Humbert from Lolita is perfectly described in this stanza from Robert Browning’s “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came.” Nabokov compares Humbert to many poets throughout Lolita. Humbert likens himself to a Romantic poet with the intent of rationalizing his crime of pedophilia as an artistic endeavor. To Humbert, in particular, life really does

Lolita is a very provocative and uneasy read for most people written by Vladimir Nabokov. His novel was released to the masses in 1955. In Nabokov’s novel he writes as if the main character Humbert Humbert is writing a letter to the jury defending himself and his pedophilic tendencies in the first person point of view. The novel received so much attention that later on in 1962, Stanley Kubrick made a film of Nabokov’s Lolita, which also attracted a lot of attention. The film and the book both have

The Annotated Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 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

most obvious feature of Lolita, and the main reason for its staying power, is Humbert Humbert's striking, complex, and enchanting prose. Humbert diverts the reader from his ugly actions, as a pedophile, with his pretty words. He goes beyond ordinary prettiness; his constant wordplay and verbal games force the reader to concentrate on language rather than on him. With his ability of enchanting words and wordplay, he develops the ability to freeze time and in turn freeze Lolita in her “nymphet” state

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

Lolita Through a Marxist-Feminist Lens After looking past its controversial sexual nature, Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita can be read as a criticism of the capitalist system. Nabokov uses the relationship between the novel's narrator, Humbert Humbert, and the novel's namesake, Lolita, as an extended metaphor to showcase the system's inherent exploitive nature in a way that shocks the reader out of their false consciousness, by making the former a man in the position of power - a repulsive, manipulative

In Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov, the main character Humbert Humbert writes a memoir of the rape, incest, and murder he becomes involved in. Throughout the novel the chaos is swept under a carpet that consists of manipulative and linguistic trickery. Instantly in the foreword, the author opens up calling the novel Lolita the “Confession of a White Widowed Male” as an attempt to highlight Humbert’s good side, being a husband, rather than explaining why the novel is named after a girl Humbert raped

whether or not the story is being told exactly how it happened and being told without bias. An unreliable narrator can leave the audience feeling as though the story may have been portrayed, described or told not entirely truthful. The well-known novel Lolita, written by author Vladimir Nabokov, contains an unreliable narrator throughout the entire novel. The story, narrated by protagonist, Humbert, revolves around him and his daughter. Humbert can be seen as unreliable narrator because he is an unstable

with a young girl. Later, Dolores better known as Lolita, uses her sexuality as a currency to manipulate and con her way into receiving money from Humbert. In Lolita, written by Vladimir Nabokov, Humbert uses sexuality to his advantage to satisfy his corrupt need to have an intimate relationship with a so called nymphet. Humbert’s incapacity to understand a growing