Humbert

sounds of words, names and places throughout the journey. The most famous known double name is Humbert Humbert, however, it is important to note Mesmer Mesmer, Gaston Godin and Harold D. Doublename. This wordplay is often affiliated with the places that Lolita and H.H. visit along the road also including places like Kumfy Kabins, Hazy

(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 imitate art. Art also imitates life. Nabokov created the character of Humbert in the image of Edgar Allan Poe

potentially cause the rise of someone’s demise. Humbert Humbert is a delusional, perverted character, who uses his fatherly role to establish a sexually driven power. Dolores, an innocent girl is used to satisfy Humbert’s perverted desire to have a sexual relationship 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

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, manipulative person and shows untrustworthy characteristics making him an unsuitable person to be chosen as narrator. The narrator relays a count of events to

Easton Ellis’s novel American Psycho both show the stories of seemingly regular men based off of how they interact with people in their lives while in public view. The main characters from each novel are not normal functioning men of society. Humbert Humbert from Nabokov’s Lolita is a middle aged man who has an obsession with young girls around the age of twelve. Patrick Bateman from Ellis’s American Psycho is an incredibly narcissistic, egotistic, man who is an investment banker by day and serial

life that one cannot change and both Humbert Humbert and Keats try to evade it by trying to stop time. In Ode on a Grecian Urn, resembling John Keats, Humbert Humbert envies the past youth and innocence that transforms overtime into a relationship of distrust and disillusion. One can see through textural evidence that Humbert craves the innocence of a past relationship that was uncompleted though his desire to replicate this relationship with Lolita. Humbert wants to keep this perfect image of youth

is immortalized forever because Humbert "injects [his] image [of Lolita]” (Rutledge 47) with the same powerful emotions “[he] feels for [her]" (47) in his account. Furthermore, while Humbert concedes that the reader "may jeer at [him], and threaten to clear the court" (Nabokov 278), he still insists "the world know how much [he] loved [his] Lolita" (278). By injecting a "sufficient degree of love" (Rutledge 47) into the real and romantic depiction of Lolita, Humbert "has become a poet" (47) because

the readers come to know Humbert sexually tortured Lolita. So, she is an afraid towards him.

narrator is Humbert Humbert, the adult stepfather who sexually and emotionally abuses Lolita. This essay will summarize the different points of views by both narrators and how the reader response to and interprets these novels. Was Leo Colston just a child-victim of adult manipulators? Is Humbert Humbert just seen as a heartless monster who takes advantage of a young female child? The narrative structure of L. P. Hartley’s The Go-Between develops out of the

nature of Humbert Humbert’s narration. Every event of the novel is manipulated by Humbert in order to serve his ultimate goal of eliciting sympathy from his audience. This is especially apparent in the way Humbert characterizes Lolita. He sexualizes her and makes her culpable in her own rape and abuse in order to shift the blame from the perpetrator of the crime, him. So that leaves readers with the question, who is the real Lolita? Is Lolita really the hyper-sexual child that Humbert makes her out