(158) Humbert's answer to her constant complaints is to bribe her with trifles or amusements, or threaten her with reform school. He uses his own fear of being caught in their incestuous relationship to control Lolita, reminding her that she would become a ward of the state, " given a choice of various dwelling places, all more or less the same, the correctional school, the reformatory, the juvenile detention home Don't you think that under the circumstances Dolores Haze had better stick to her old man?" (151) Lolita stays with Humbert simply because, "You see, she had absolutely nowhere else to go." (142) Despite her fear of the authorities, however, Lolita eventually seeks a way out of her prison by running off with Quilty. Though Humbert admit, "It had become gradually clear to my Lolita during our singular and bestial cohabitation that even the most miserable of family lives was better than the parody of incest-, his own desire at the time is stronger than any love he feels for Lolita. As he admits later, "Now, squirming and pleading with my own memory, I recall that on this and similar occasions, it was always my habit and method to ignore Lolita's states of mind while comforting my own base self." (287) .
Humbert's epiphany begins as he stands alone on the side of a highway, not long after Lolita leaves him. Listening to the noise and voices of children playing nearby, Humbert admits, "I knew that the hopelessly poignant thing was not Lolita's absence from my side, but the absence of her voice from that concord." (308) His guilt is compounded when he sees her three years later living a dingy life - married and pregnant at seventeen, poor, and uneducated. Though she appears nonchalant about her lot, Humbert knows he is to blame for her missed opportunities in life and her downfall from her former middle-class existence. His attraction to her is no longer centered on his lust, as she is no longer the nymphet of his dreams, "with her ruined looks and her adult, rope-veined narrow hands and her gooseflesh white arms, and her shallow ears, and her unkempt armpits-.
Third, using the Lolita Concept could be considered a crime. "The Lolita Concept is not a personal taste. ... In South Korea, the law does not specify and restrain the concept of Lolita. ... Because of the celebrities who perform the Lolita Concept, South Korea is in danger. ... The concept of Lolita should not be performed by anyone. ...
Here is where Lolita enters the picture. ... When Humbert first glimpses Lolita in the yard, he glimpses a sort of Annabel reincarnated as Lolita. This is the moment where he realizes that he loves Lolita, "at first sight."" ... (Nabokov, 278)- At the end of the book, when Lolita is grown up and married, Humbert is still head over heals in love with Lolita. Humbert goes to visit Lolita for one last chance with her. ...
This quote reminded me of the film "Lolita- that we watched in class. ... The movie throws in many clues to remind the viewers that Lolita is still a child. ... As far as Lolita's mother, Charlotte Haze played by Melanie Griffith goes, I think she knew all along that Lolita had a thing for Humbert. I think that Charlotte was jealous of Lolita's flirtatious relationship with Humbert and that is most likely why Lolita was sent off to summer camp. ... I also think that Lolita knew exactly what she was getting into from the very start. ...
And to Humbert, Lolita was a reincarnation of Annabel. ... This physical obsession with Lolita is microscopic. ... Lolita as a nymphet, imprisons Humbert from the second he sees her. ... "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. ... But in my arms she was always Lolita....
What can we intuitively learn about the taboo subjects of incest and pedophilia when such a tale is told by Humbert Humbert, the narrator of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita? ... The presence of fate propels the story, initially by burning down Humbert's original destination so that he may meet Lolita and her monster of a mother, Charlotte Haze. ... Much later, after Lolita and Humbert have traveled the country, returned East and then jumped back on the road, McFate abandons Humbert by not pointing out foreboding signs of Lolita's imminent departure. ... It's his voice, and Nab...
" (Lydia Kiesling, On Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita). ... " (Banned Books Week: Lolita). ... Lolita is a book written by an adult for adults. ... Lolita should not be banned just because it is for an older audience. ... So we're reading Lolita this month....
Humbert's character genuinely seems to enjoy talking about Lolita. ... That changes when he meets Lolita. ... Ellen Pifer also recognizes this is her literary criticism Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita: A Casebook. ... When he sees the squalid conditions Lolita happily lives in Humbert knows for sure that any other life he could have given her, no matter how poor or broken, would have been better for Lolita. ... Humbert portrays these thoughts as made by a changed man, but during Humbert and Lolita's first cross country trip after her mother's death Humbert is already shown just ...
