This wild, strong passion imprisons the protagonist and flies beyond the established norms of the society. It deviates into a wrong direction and leads to unruly, ungoverned behavior. We stumble and fall into the tangle of what we want and what others think is right. Despite our suffering we never really pierce the mystery of ourselves and why our most basic desires collide with a world of right and wrong.

Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita triggers a deep conflict about crossing the line between love and the perverse lust for a child. The dual personality, Humbert Humbert, is totally captured and obsessed by the beauty and the spontaneous nature of the twelve- year old "nymphet", Dolores Haze, which as a consequence changes his personality and way of living. Gradually, this fatal pervert love turns into a deep doomed obsession which leads him into a world where no moral constraints exist, a world ruled o

In order to possess the girl, Humbert Humbert humiliates himself when marrying her mother. He does not love her at all, but sacrifices his dignity only to be closer to Dolores Haze. But he does not take into consideration the fact that this can destroy not only the life of the poor child, but also that of her mother who is deeply, madly in love with him. Charlotte Haze is presented as an unwanted obstacle, an old undesirable impediment to our protagonist's desires. Humbert refers to her as "The Haze woman"(45), "the old cat"(47), "the detested mamma"(49) and a "busybody Haze"(61), and he describes her as having "rubber-red lips writhing in angry, inaudible speech(66) and "a possessive streak" that makes her "crazily jealous"(79). Furthermore, like other evil fairy mothers and stepmothers "she simply hated her daughter"(80). Humbert admits himself that "Mrs Haze was to me but an obstacle"(71), and he longs "for some terrific disaster" in which the "mother is messily but instantly and permanently eliminated"(53).

After Charlotte's death,once when Humbert picks up Lolita from the camp, the spirituality is threatened by their proximity and lack of external constraints, and with their first act of intercourse, Humbert's mentally oriented fantasy must change. According to him Lolita seduces him after a night of agony, but this momentary apparition of fantasy and reality is only the capstone of a night in which the borders between the two realms blur. At one point Lolita frees herself "from the shadow of [Humbert's] embrace"(130) and at others Humbert "would dream I regained consciousness, dream I lay in wait"(132). Upon leaving The Enchanted Hunters that morning, Humbert realizes that "whether or not the realization of a lifelong dream had surpassed all expectations, it had, in a sense, overshot its mark - and plunged into a nightmare"(140). More specifically, he begins to feel "an oppressive hideous constraint as if I were sitting with the small ghost of somebody I had just killed"(140). Humbert indeed sits with such a ghost but he analyzes his state correctly in a more important sense: his pure fantasy, killed by its realization, must be replaced by something less pure, less ideal, less exclusively fantastic because it has been made flesh. "Instead of owning a shadow to play with in his fantasies, he possesses the object throwing the shadow, too, forcing a deeply ironic twist to his use of the term "ghost" - the ghost of a shadow, it must in terms of a dualistic universe of mentality and physicality, be corporeal" (Bloom 94).

When finally Humbert's two-year romp with Lolita is discontinued by Lolita's escape from the hospital, he begins his painstaking trip, alone and searching for the girl and her abductor, whose character if not his name, begins to solidify for Humbert. After several years of separation, Humbert encounters the married and pregnant Dolly Shiller,the grown-up Lolita, and he understands , much too late, that his love has grown beyond the obsession for a prepubescent female child.

Perversion - this unnatural inclination- is totally rejected by society. Humbert Humbert acts in ways unacceptable for the surrounding environment. As a child molester, he can not laugh at himself, and he can not pity others. He can ape, and clown, spin excuses and dramatic confessions, exult with triumph or rage with frustration. But he does not laugh at his plight or pity his victims. Society does not accept Humbert's conduct and accuses him of being guilty of ruining a child's life. But he does not apply himself into the position chosen for him by others. He acts upon his wishes, upon his desires. He follows his impulses, his excessive desire, his sensitivity. Being a poet, he is a completely different person. He lives in his self-created world. His moral code swerves into a different direction. The obsession of Lolita- "light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta"(9) is very strong. This is even transformed

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