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Vladimir Nabokov Claire Quilty Lolita
599 wordsThe second half of Lolita, deals with the consummation of Humbert's sexual desire. Humbert is craving Lolita and even resorts to giving her sleeping pills on their first night alone together at the Enchanters Cottage, so he can have his way with her. The gentle and dreamy regions through which I crept were the patrimonies of poets-not crimes prowling ground. The next year they were on a journey together, spending their nights in various hotels having sex. Lolita learns how to play tennis, so the...
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Vladimir Nabokov Claire Quilty Lolita
801 wordsWhen Vladimir Nabokov finished writing the novel Lolita he knew the explosive subject matter that he was now holding in his hands. After being turned down by publishing houses on numerous occasions to unleash his controversial story to the public, it was finally published by the French in 1955. Many critics were shocked and called it pornography while others praised his work. How could a pure thinking author conjugate ideas on issues so dark and depraved? What were his intentions of doing so, an...
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Soiled Knickers Utilized Condoms Feminist
637 wordsEmins confessional art - with its intimacies of pregnancy, abortion, rape, and ass stuffing, the explosive rage of pain of overstretch anus, the destructiveness of guilt - has much in common with feminist consciousness-raising of an earlier generation when speaking the unspoken about domestic violence and sexual bondage and discipline could lead to a sharing of experiences and a recognition of the structures in which they took place. In the detritus beside the couch with sperm spots on it, and i...
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Fascination With Death Laws Of Nature
1,508 wordsLolita by Vladimir Nabokov Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is considered now to be one of American literatures masterpieces, even though the explicit sexual nature of this novel resulted in public controversy. Basically, Lolita is the apology of a pedophile. Contemporary critics suggest that it is impossible to figure out what the author was trying to tell us in this novel, as it is completely deprived of moralistic underlining. At the same time, we cant consider Lolita as a literary form of ones worl...
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Cross Country Fantasy World
2,120 wordsNabokov's Lolita, Humbert's obsession Early reflections on Lolita conducted both by its admirers and detractors constituted the perfect mixture for revolutionary novel with praise for Nabokov's literary achievement and condemnation for its highbrow pornography. From the critical point of view, due to its immediate and continuous controversy, the majority of audience has encountered the novel with some preconception about its obscene content. Employing an image of his narrator, Nabokov introduced...
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Sexual Abuse Child Abuse
1,058 wordsImagine for one moment that you are not yourself any longer. Visualize instead that you are a young girl; old enough to know right from wrong yet still young enough to be terrified by the dark shadows in your room. It is a cool autumn night and your parents have opted to attend a party, which you are not allowed at. It will be fine, they say. Although you already know what is to come. Your uncle comes over to watch you for the evening, and your parents are so pleased by the fact that they do not...
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Middle Aged Man Clich
1,428 wordsLolita is perhaps one of the most disturbing novels of the century: it tells the immoral story of a middle- aged man who falls in love with a twelve year- old girl (a nymphet, as he calls her) and has a sexual relationship with her for over two years, until she disappears with another more perverse middle- aged man. What makes this novel particularly disturbing is the fact that Humbert's sexual perversion is disguised in highly poetic garb and that the only monitor of virtue is the gifted perver...
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Vladimir Nabokov Epic Poem
1,320 wordsLolita, As Viewed by Homer Homers Odyssey is the story of one mans epic journey to return home and reestablish the proper order in his life. Throughout Odysseus journey, he encounters many obstacles that he must overcome in order to reach his destination. Homer describes Odysseus as... that man skilled in all ways of contending, the wanderer, harried for years on end (I, 2 - 3). With this in mind, I think if Homer were asked to comment on Lolita he would be able to relate many similarities betwe...
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Clich Sexual Desires
2,760 wordsVladimir Nabokov, one of the 20 th century's greatest writers, is a highly aesthetic writer. Most of his work shows an amazing interest in and talent for language. He deceptively uses language in Lolita to mask and make the forbidden divine. Contextually, Lolita may be viewed as a novel about explicit sexual desire. However, it is the illicit desire of a stepfather for his 12 -year old stepdaughter. The novels subject inevitably conjures up expectations of pornography, but there in not a single ...
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Contemporary Society Middle Class
1,195 wordsLolita: Lolita: Analysis web web Tekno Surf Ad Wave web My analysis of Lolita In 1958, Vladimir Nabokov created two of the unrelenting characters in the history of literature: Humbert Humbert and Lolita Haze. His narrators voice and main character, Humbert Humbert, explains the complex story of a man and his obsession. To set this book off from other books about obsession, Nabokov gives Humbert possibly the most socially unacceptable obsession of all: pedophilia. This Lolita causes much of the c...
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Vladimir Nabokov Sexual Desire
1,498 wordsVladimir Nabokov s Lolita When Vladimir Nabokov finished writing the novel Lolita he knew the explosive subject matter that he was now holding in his hands. After being turned down by publishing houses on numerous occasions to unleash his controversial story to the public, it was finally published by the French in 1955. Many critics were shocked and called it pornography while others praised his work. How could a pure thinking author conjugate ideas on issues so dark and depraved? What were his ...
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Cause Undesirable Social Violence Against Women
811 wordsPORNOGRAPHY IN THE MEDIA Unfortunately most of what is broadcast or transmitted in the news today is with reference to the chaotic condition of our planet, or something else that society as a whole sees as detrimental or damaging. But the news on television is not the only type of media taking criticism of society. Other forms of mass media, specifically movies and television programs containing pornography and violence have been heavily criticised. The underlining concept is that society is neg...
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