Vladimir Nabokov's Dolores Haze

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Humbert Humbert’s Obsession/ compulsion of Dolores Haze Lolita is one of the Vladimir Nabokov’s well-known novels, as it is one of the greatest novels in twenty-first century. It contains one of the most controversial in the history of literature. Nabokov is a Russian-American author, whose works have influenced popular culture. Nabokov explores feelings of sympathy, love, heartbreak, in a beautifully disturbing way; he uses a dark sense of humor to mesmerize the audience and I find that being able to unfold comedy with such a taboo subject such as obsessing over young girls, which many would feel to be unfit to society, is a work of art in itself. The two main characters are Humbert Humbert, our narrator, and Dolores Haze, these two characters’ disguise large parts of their personalities from each other and the rest of the world. Both Dolores Haze or as our narrator referee to as Lolita and Humbert Humbert have different personalities in different situations and circumstances. However, they ultimately show a more continuous and profound self-existence than just as faces created in their various interactions. As audience or “the jury” as Humbert …show more content…

Annabel and her family visit Humbert’s father’s hotel as tourists. Despite having many physical encounters, Humbert and Annabel are unable to consummate their adolescent love. She later dies of typhus in Corfu. Humbert remains obsessed with her memory until he meets Lolita. In a way is was as Annabel Leigh was reincarnated into Lolita to him. Humbert, in his flowery description of Lolita, uses the word "nymphet" to refer not only to her but also to other girls of her age and characteristics. Little girls that came his way before Lolita, he describes as nymphets too. Monique - A French nymphet prostitute. Initially, Humbert is attracted to her nymphet qualities and begins an affair with her. However, he becomes disillusioned by her maturation and abruptly ends the

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