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Paper #059148 ::
"Lolita"
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A discussion of the problem of human desire in the novel, "Lolita," by Vladimir Nabokov.
Written in 2005; 857 words; 1 source; MLA;
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This paper explains how, in the novel, "Lolita," written by Vladimir Nabokov, the author illustrates the downward spiral of human desire. Through the lens of Humbert's obsession with 'la nymphette Lolita', Humbert, thrown back and forth between desire and decision, crosses countless times the slim and shadowy line between purest ecstasy and the most wretched despair. It shows how, in "Lolita," Nabokov blurs the defining lines between love and perversion, right and wrong, presenting them in uncomfortably close juxtaposition as essentially dependent upon each other.
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"Humbert Humbert is a tortured man, deeply divided between a sensitive rationality, and his undeniable lust for a forbidden and unripened fruit. United in him are the impulses of a romantic European gentleman and the obsessions of a lascivious and lecherous old man silently lusting after the tantalizingly ephemeral nymphet. After years of this silent lust, of "... abusing himself in the dark..."(88), Humbert Humbert finds Lolita. Lolita is an ultimate nymphet; she gives herself up to H.H.'s desire, going with him on a perverse holiday across the American landscape. This "... satisfaction of Humbert Humbert's passion..."(175) is the seed of his own destruction. It is at this point in the novel that the reader discerns in its entirety the complex tragedy of Humbert Humbert. In his own way, he loves Lolita with all the tenderness in his heart, "... I loved her hopelessly... it was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight..."(270); his love transcends his lust for her as a nymphet and he is painfully aware of the harm he inflicts upon her. However, he cannot ignore his desires and carnal passions: "The moral sense in mortals is the duty we have to pay on mortal sense of duty."(283)"
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