Humbert

appealing to her husband. She is a passionate lover, but her passion makes her only more revolting to Humbert. Although Charlotte's feelings for Humbert are shallow, Humbert's feelings for her never develop at all. Instead, his responses remain those of a tenant to his landlady. There are several reasons why Humbert is unable to feel anything either sexually or emotionally for Charlotte. First, Humbert is almost exclusively attracted to very young girls, and Charlotte, who is in her mid-thirties and

In Nabokov’s 1955 novel, ‘Lolita’, the fictitious foreword, presented by the equally fictitious John Ray Jr., Ph.D., describes Humbert Humbert as a ‘shining example of moral leprosy’ (Nabokov 1955). However, throughout the novel, Humbert appears to manipulate numerous characters, most of all Dolores Haze and her infatuated mother through his alluring good looks and his sophisticated British manner. Similarly, in Wilde’s 1890 novel, ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’, Dorian, also a hideously immoral main

For law breakers like Humbert Humbert, appeasing his pedophiliac urges becomes his main goal once setting his eyes on his landlord’s daughter, Dolores. Although Humbert recognizes the harm in his sexual affections, he can not be other than who he is. He pursues Lolita relentlessly, gaining her trust to eventually abusive her passivism. In Vladimir Nabokov’s famous novel, Lolita, Humbert Humbert

A Love Story: Or Is It? “Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins, my sin, my soul” (Nabokov 9). Quoted from Vladimir Nabokov’s novel Lolita, Humbert Humbert briefly describes his sensibilities towards his love Lolita. I’ve italicized love for the reason that this book is perceived often as not a true American love story but as a pedophile’s lust. The reasoning for the italicization is because I wanted to emphasis on the point that this book offers more than that of a pedophile’s love. Nabokov’s

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

We relate to Humbert first and foremost because the book itself is a subjective vision. It is a first person account of Humbert's life with Dolores Haze, a.k.a. Lolita, told through his own words and his own eyes. Lolita is not about Lolita at all, but Humbert's vision

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. When Humbert describes Lolita playing tennis

book Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov, to psychoanalyze the main character, Humbert Humbert, would take far too long. His craving for the “nymphets” stems from the loss of his very own childhood love, Annabel. At the age of 12, he fell in love with Annabel. However, before the two young children were ever able to become intimate, Annabel died. Humbert alleges that their failure to consummate their relationship is what impelled Humbert to subconsciously have these sexual wants for nymphets. In psychoanalysis

torment Humbert Humbert, the main character of Vladimir Nabokov's novel, Lolita. A novel that completely negates the female character, dehumanizing and objectifying them, to the point where they could easily be replaced by inanimate objects or abstract thoughts. This is done through the thoughts, comments, and actions of the main narrator, Humbert Humbert. This is driven by Humbert Humbert's own misogynistic needs to have power over all things, the female sex in particular. To explain Humbert Humbert's

his novel. In the film adaptation of the novel, we also find importance through cinematic elements like narration, cinematography, sound, editing, and Mise-en-scene. With both the passage and adaptation, we can study the meaning of the character Humbert and his love for Lolita. The first word of the passage gives us an example of Nabokov’s ways of writing Lolita; the first word appears to be “Reader!” (308). Nabokov addresses the reader to get the attention of us. Usage of addressing becomes