Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita"

Paper Summary:

This paper summarizes Nabokov's novel about an older man's obsessive love and lustful desire for a young girl and points out that, however beautifully written the novel, sexuality between an adult and child is as morally unacceptable and criminally punishable today as it was in the mid-Fifties when the story was written.

From the Paper:

"Humbert begins his manuscript expressing his passion and love for "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita" (Nabokov pp 9). Nabokov's character then goes on to describe his childhood and his adolescent relationship with the "girl-child," Annabel, whom he referred to as the "precursor" to Lolita (Nabokov pp 9). Of Humbert's encounter with Annabel, Nabokov writes that she would "let me feed on her open mouth, while with a generosity that was ready to offer her everything, my heart, my throat, my entrails, I gave her to hold in her awkward fist the scepter of my passion" (Nabokov pp 15). This brief sexual encounter ended before climax when the two were interrupted by chance onlookers. Annabel died some four months later."

More papers on Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita":

• Book Review # 128823 : "Freudian Themes in Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita"
• Book Review # 120132 : "Critical Analysis of Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita"
• Analytical Essay # 58506 : "Author Vladimir Nabokov"

APA Citation:

MLA Citation: