Lolita Response Paper

Carleigh Craparo 12. 3. 12 English Lolita can be pull backd as a controversial book that can invite out the readers in and cause them to feel harmonized towards a piece of music who is a murderer, pedophile, predator, and an egomaniac. The author, Vladimir Nabokov, seduced the readers minds with numerous elements about Humbert to throw out of kilter them from his true criminal tendencies. Humbert is the main character of Lolita and describes his emotional state story from an American jail cell. He begins to describe his childhood and how he was struck by his head start love bidd Annabel Leigh.They were deeply attracted to bingle another and move to make love for the graduation metre, however, they are break up and never cap up to(p) to follow by because Annabel died shortly afterwards. end-to-end the novel, Humbert attempts to recreate his medieval and therefore a psychotic obsession follows. Humbert is a sympathetic pedophile that is trapped in his own self-delus ion. He is able to counterfeit the readers by capturing them with his eloquent composition style, trade looks, erectification, and an array of attempts to get the reader to see through his eyes with his skewed perspective.Vladimirs style of penning in truthly stuck out to many another(prenominal) readers at the time it was published. Humbert mainly writes in long sentences and uses elegant speech to transpose the readers feelings towards his lustful desire. Humbert was raised by a multicultural father who gave Humbert the readiness to become multilingual and have an impressive education. He feeds the readers minds with fancy speech such as etiolated, sartorial, truculently, Lucerne, platitudinous, or even neuralgic. Humbert is able to distract the reader from the evil in his thoughts by using his literary illusions, ornate style, and multilingual puns.Also, Vladimir creatively uses anagrams throughout his writing such as a characters name is Vivian Darkbloom, which corr elates with the authors name Vladimir Nabokov. The words and phrases he uses foreshadow the storyline. For example, the name Dolores, which is Lolitas real name, means sorrow and grief in Latin. While, Lolita, (the name Humbert made up) sounds light, playful, and suggestive. Humbert changing Doloress name shows that he dehumanizes her and created a fantasy of her in his head. Ment onlyy, he already separated her from the normal childhood she needed and fantasized of a fake realm.Also, the author creates many visual scenes like in the book when he was recalling a obtain trip, Lifesize plastic figures of snug-nosed children with dun-colored, greenish, brown-dotted, faunish faces floated around me. I know I was the only shopper in that rather supernatural place where I moved about fishlike, in a glaucous aquarium. I sensed inappropriate thoughts. His style in writing connects the readers so intensely with Humbert so they can feel his emotions to end up having emotional empathy. H umbert was a man that was fascinated not only with nymphettes, exclusively similarly his charming outwards appearance.Even though Humbert Humbert is a narcissist man, he has a long history of women lusting after him. It all began with his beloved Annabel, and then to his first wife Valeria, then onto Charlotte, Lolita Jean Farlow, and lastly Rita. All of these women became entranced by Humberts clean-cut jaw, muscular hand, deep laboured voice, broad shoulder. not only were many women falling for Humberts looks, but also Humbert himself. He was very aware of his appearance and even regularises I was, and still am, despite mes malheurs, an exceptionally handsome virile slow-moving, tall, with soft dark hair and a sinister but all the more seductive trudge of demeanor.Humbert is a very egotistical man and compliments his outward appearances to balance his inner guilt. He is able to charm the readers by distracting them with his likable attractiveness. Not only does Humbert Hum bert manipulate the auditory modality with his writing style, congruous English background, and physical features, but he also justifies his actions. He desperately attempts for the readers to understand his shameful past and makes excuses for the actions he made. He is an unreliable narrator and seldom reveals how the scenes truly play out.Humbert gives the story in a biased manner and is overwhelmed in his self-delusion. He is unendingly looking for sympathy and wants the reader to be as perverse as he is. Many say that he battles between beauty and lust. He pretends that he is appreciating beauty and completely voids his ethics and morals. Sadly, lust last wins and he overtakes Lolitas sinlessness. Again, Humbert blames Quilty for taking Lolitas innocence when it was truly Humbert himself. He somewhat understands his actions were wrong when he begins to express regret, ReaderWhat I heard was but the melody of children at play, nothing but that, and so limpid was the air with in this vapor of intermingle voices, majestic and minute, remote and magically near, frank and divinely enigmaticone could hear now and then, as if released, an almost articulate spurt of vivid gag I stood listening to that musical vibration from my imposing slope and then I knew that the hopelessly touching thing was not Lolitas absence from my side, but the absence of her voice from that concord Humbert is an evil man that provide not accept his pedophiliac nature.Lolita quickly had her mother, innocence, and rights taken from her when Humbert walked into her life. Humbert likes to cay Lolita as a young girl incorrect with him because his looks resembled that of a famous celebrity she had a tucker on. However, he rarely goes into depth on Lolitas thoughts and emotions and completely dismisses them. He immediately believes this street swank girl feels the exact same right smart he does.Not only does Humbert try to twist that Lolita feels the same way as Humbert feels, but he also manipulates the readers to telephone that Lolita has full mark off over the relationship. If it wasnt for Humbert devilishly obsessing over Lolita, her mother Charlotte, would not run international frantically from finding out about Humberts true dark feelings for Lolita. Charlotte is instantly killed by a car and Humbert truly has no guilt whatever for her death but feels relieved instead. Humbert then is able to take full obligate of Lolitas life and belongings.Humbert is forever and a day bribing Lolita for sexual favors and strips her away from having any granting immunity at school such as talking to boys. They travel across the country and Lolita ripped away from having anything weedy to a normal life. Humbert is proven to be a manipulator and controller because of his behavior in the past. Throughout his childhood, he had control over his life after his mothers death. He is able to manipulate Lolita by being in full control of the money and tells her that she has nowhere to go if she attempts to leave him.She had no other alternative but to fall to somebody else to escape the trap that Humbert put on Lolita. Humbert is able to make the audience see that he is just a man that cant control his lust and love for a girl when she is constantly throwing herself at him. However, that may not be the cutting and by him becoming more and more unequivocal of Lolita, he is losing less control of himself. Overall, Humbert is a sympathetic pedophile constantly lurking for others to understand his feelings or he may animadvert that people just think and feel as he does.He uses numerous techniques to ginger nut his victims and get them to be controlled or manipulated. When the book was first published, many did not see the art to Nabakovs book and completely dismissed it as fully grown and innapropriate. However, Nabakov took a dark storyline and got the readers to become one with the villain. Even Nabakov says Humbert is a monster of incuriosi ty and a narcissistic and cruel wretch. Nabakov is able to get the audience to feel sympathetic for him and seduce the readers with his memoirs. He uses