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“The long of the English alphabet… has for me the tint o weathered wood, but a French a evokes polished ebony” (34). Nabokov’s characters also shared his educated status. Nabokov was a member of the intelligentsia in Russia, a trait that he subsequently gave his fictional narrators. Before the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, Nabokov’s father was a politician and member of the “Constitutionalist Democratic Party, of which he was one of the founders” (28). The Constitutional Democratic Party was

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

Vladimir Nabokov’s provocative novel, Lolita, chronicles literature professor Humbert Humbert’s spiral into madness following his perverse infatuation with his landlady’s daughter. This novel was published in 1955 during the post-war period in America, whereby women were forced out of professional roles in order to undertake domestic duties. Nabokov was likely influenced to explore the male-dominant attitudes of this time through his construction of Humbert’s misogynistic perspective. On trial for

feelings toward Lolita. As the narrator of the story, Humbert uses love as a willful and tenacious justification for his pedophilic tendencies toward nymphets like Lolita. As Lolita is only a young, undeveloped, and immature child, Humbert’s desire for Lolita is not only unreasonable and awkward, but also psychologically and physically obsessive; he is unlike any other pedophile out here, as he experiences very little satisfaction after “fondling”, “kissing”, and “groping” Lolita. In every description

Humbert Humbert’s Obsession of Dolores Haze Lolita is one of the Vladimir Nabokov’s most well-known novels. Nabokov is a Russian-American author, whose works have impacted popular culture. Lolita is one of the greatest novels in twenty-first century. It contains one of the most controversial characters in history. Lolita is filled with including rape, pedophile, incest, and sordid subject. As audience or “the jury” as the narrator Humbert Humbert reference to us, we can see that Humbert is a clover

means for the oppression of Lolita throughout the novel. The ideology that women and girls are property is linked to capitalism as an ideology that reduces young girls bodies to commodities that are intended for use and consumption. Together these work to defend the status quo and actively promote the values and interests of the dominant group in society; thus, intersecting to multiply the oppression and exploitation of Lolita. In the novel, Humbert takes ownership of Lolita without her consent and transforms

something very strange: it was she who seduced me.” (Nabokov 132). However, this accusation against Lolita again proves Humbert to be unreliable and his need for control by blaming Lolita for her perilous magic of a nymphet. He also points out that he was not even Lolita’s first sexual experience, ultimately, he justifies that he did not possess her sexual innocence. Although, he also reveals Lolita to appear physically inexperienced in which he says, “she was not quite prepared for certain discrepancies

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

In Vladimir Nabokov’s novel “Lolita”, the titular secondary character, is used to satisfy Humbert Humbert’s (also known as H.H.) nymphet fantasies. Dolores Haze, or Lolita as H.H. calls her, is immediately stripped of her innocence. Lolita is not responsible for her experience because her being and actions are turned into perversions by H.H, and the relationship between H.H. and Lolita are skewed and ultimately normalized; however, she is responsible when she runs away from H.H., gaining control

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