Lolita Essays
Lolita is a complex story of passion, obsession, and manipulation. In the forward, Psychologist John Ray, Jr. , introduces the story; “Lolita, or the Confession of a White Widowed Male,”(Nabokov, Vladmir Lolita, 3) as written by a middle-aged European pedophile named Humbert Humbert. The essentials of this title immediately strike you as controversial considering that…
The following article gives a critical analysis in terms of hybridity, immigration and exile of three novels, “The God of Small Things”, “Reading Lolita in Tehran” and “Nervous conditions”. This article gives a brief review and background of all the novels plus a detailed description on how all books dealt with the issues of Hybridity,…
In both Vladimir Nabokov’s novel Lolita, and Thomas Pynchon’s novel The Crying of Lot 49, the protagonist is consumed by an obsession. These obsessions affect the characters’ behavior, actions, and interaction with the world. Most importantly, however, both authors reveal that obsession distorts a person’s perception of reality. In Lolita, the protagonist and narrator, Humbert…
My Mother Said I Never Should follows the story of four generations of women, a great-grand-daughter a daughter, a mother and a grandmother, grappling with social forces that threaten to split them apart as the twentieth century grows older. Widely studied on Drama syllabuses the play moves back and forth through the lives of the…
Lolita, written by Vladimir Nabokov is a novel based on a middle-aged gentleman and his infatuation with a young girl who is twelve years of age. The extract consisting of the first five chapters of the novel and the main theme being the central character, Humbert Humbert’s reflection on his childhood years and his explanation…
He was born in NY at the end of 1920s. Although he was an intelligent child he did not get good grades at school. As a teenager he got interested of chess and photography. He used chess for training his intellectual skills and photographhy for his artistic characteristics. These two teenager hobbies are noticeable from…
Comparative Analysis of the Literary work, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov and the Artistic Works of Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, Better Known as Balthus Lolita is written as a memoir in the first person by its main character, Humbert Humbert. This is a story that could be viewed in two very different ways, two very different…
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Tattoos a Fine Art Tattoos are considered fine art and are accepted more now than ever before. “Tattoos date back to 12,000 BC. The word “tattoo” comes from a Tahitian word “tattow” or “ta-tu” meaning to mark the skin” (Lori). Tattoos have been evident in many cultures throughout the centuries” the ancient Greeks tattooed spies,…
Name: Course: Instructor: Date: Sex and Violence in Film, TV & Digital Media Sigmund Freud is an internationally acclaimed philosopher who made interesting philosophical views about love and human nature. In brief, Freud employed psychoanalytic investigations with regard to the essence of human nature. Freud was of the view that the underlying ideal of human…
Pastiche Taking various ideas from previous writings and literary styles and pasting them together to make new styles. Intertextuality Acknowledgment of previous literary works within another literary work. Metafiction The act of writing about making readers aware of the fictional nature of the very fiction they’re reading. Temporal Distortion The use of non-linear timelines and…
allegory A symbolic fictional narrative that conveys a meaning not explicitly set forth in the narrative. Allegories typically describe situations and events or express abstract ideas in terms of material objects, persons, and actions. example: George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm (1945), which, under the guise of a fable about domestic animals, expresses the author’s disillusionment…
The Castle of Otranto Horace Walpole, 1765 (Enlightenment) C LIST A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Mary Wollstonecraft, 1792 (Early Romantic) D LIST The Monk M.G. Lewis, 1796 (Early Romantic) C LIST Gothic Novel. Songs of Innocence William Blake, 1789 (Enlightenment) C LIST Songs of Experience William Blake, 1789 (Enlightenment) C LIST “Marriage of…
Obsessions and the Downfall it Brings Upon Life What is the first thing that comes to mind when someone speaks of obsession? For most people it is the obsession with media or someone with no life, or maybe both. Inside almost every single person’s mind is someone or something they are passionate about. Not only…
This essay explores the relationship between authorial strategy and the strategy and defence of the narrator within the book Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. It also considers how the discourse between these two elements affects the reader’s perception of the narrator and our judgment of his crimes, coming to the conclusion that we must consider the…
