Lolita
In the novel, Lolita, written by Vladimir Nabokov, the setting takes place in New England during the 1950's. The protagonist is a man named Humbert Humbert who is fifty-four and has infatuations with nymph-like girls. The antagonist is Humbert Humbert's mental disorders, which lead him to his sick obsession with a twelve-year-old "nymphet" named Lolita. Humbert's conflict is man versus self because he is constantly dealing with his obsessions and infatuation in his head. Humbert's obsession with Lolita begins when he moves in with her mother, Charlotte Haze. In a freak accident Charlotte is hit and killed by a car, which gave Humbert custody of Lolita. Humbert takes Lolita on a two-year road trip across the country where they become intimate with each other. Lolita is suddenly kidnapped by a man named Quilty, thus preventing Humbert to see his daughter/ lover for about three years. During that period of years Humbert's mind goes wild as he constantly thinks about Lolita. After Humbert finds Lolita again, he finds Quilty and kills him. Although Lolita is married a
A symbol in the story is when Lolita was being sinfully flirtatious, eating an apple in front of Humbert, which he described as being Eden- red. "... She had painted her lips and was holding in her hollowed hands a beautiful, banal, Eden-red apple."(Pg. 58) The symbol of the Eden-red apple comes from the Bible story of Adam and Eve. Another symbol explains the perverted and sexually orientated mind of Humbert. He described an abscess of his as being the size of a maraschino cherry, which is also, slang for a virgin. "To explain my grim mood, I had to use the same toothache I had already simulated in the morning. Must have been an enormous molar, with an abscess as big as a maraschino cherry." (Pg. 63) There are many lessons one learns as they read Lolita. There are many lonely people in the world that look for love to fill their voids. Although Humbert definitely had some mental problems, he was a needy person who always looked for love. When he received the love he wanted, he would become obsessed and protective of it. In the story, Lolita was the love that Humbert wa
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Approximate Word count = 726
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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