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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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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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Nabkvs Llita Vs Caddy
1,960 wordsNabkv's Llita vs. Faulkner's Caddy Nabkv's Llita and Faulkner's Caddy are tw very controversial characters that represent wmen's development during mid 20 th Century. Vladimir Nabkv's inspiration fr writing Llita came frm hearing abut an ape that was taught t draw after being like up in a cage, while given treats t encourage certain behavior. After many months f confinement, the ape finally drew a picture f the bars f his cell. Consequently this is what Nabkv's narrating character Humbert practi...
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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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