"Lolita"

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This paper discusses Nabokov's famous novel, "Lolita," and explores what the book might have been like had it been written by a female writer. The paper contends that a female author would have created a more complex and sympathetic characterization for Lolita. The paper explains that a female novelist would have allowed Lolita's motivations to be more transparent, and the reader would better understand why Lolita became Humbert's lover and why she rejected him.

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"Nabokov's famous novel, Lolita, would have some important and essential differences had it been written by a woman. A female writer would have created a more complex and sympathetic characterization for Lolita, expanding on Nabokov's treatment of Lolita as simply a vulgar personification of the qualities of the nymphet. The impact of Humbert's obsession with Lolita and their sexual affair would have been explored more thoroughly by a female author. Further, Humbert would have felt a deeper remorse for his actions in the hands of a woman writer."

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