Is Lolita a Love Story or Pornography?
Is Lolita a Love story or pornography? Is it Moral or Immoral?
Lolita, the dramatic story of the main character, Humbert Humbert and the twelve and a half year old Lolita is the most controversial and greatest masterpiece created by the Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita is a full-blown psychological novel, a detective novel, a confessional novel, a Doppelgänger Tale, an extended allegory for artistic process a sexual myth, more complicated and mysterious than comparable to Freudian stereotypes, even a fable with correspondence to the little red riding hood story.
Nabokov possesses the power to enchant the reader with an enormous variety of beautiful language and structure. By creating word plays he enables H.H. to convince the reader to sympathise with him by referring to him as a romantic poet in reality he exploits and sexually abuses Lolita. The first part of this essay deals with the first chapter of Lolita in depth analysing Humbert's language and its effect on the reader.
Nabokov uses language as a device to portray Humbert's thoughts and emotions and to develop him subtly as the major character, established in this first passage. The tone of Humbert Humbert who is the narrator throughout the novel is very gentle to begin with, E g. "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins." This metaphor established the idea that H.H. is a romantic poet. As well as the phrase; "My sin, my soul." Further using the literary device of metaphors, importantly this institutes him as the tragic hero from the beginning g onwards and not as a pervert.
His language contains a lot of literary devices such as metaphors, imagery and alliterations, E.g. "Tip of the tongue taking a trip ", creating images in the readers mind. It allows the reader to view the scene through Humbert's eyes, being dragged into the story and like a critic describes, he makes us his accomplice."
The perhaps most obvious point which can be made about Humbert is his obsession with the
Lolita, the dramatic story of the main character, Humbert Humbert and the twelve and a half year old Lolita is the most controversial and greatest masterpiece created by the Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita is a full-blown psychological novel, a detective novel, a confessional novel, a Doppelgänger Tale, an extended allegory for artistic process a sexual myth, more complicated and mysterious than comparable to Freudian stereotypes, even a fable with correspondence to the little red riding hood story.
Nabokov possesses the power to enchant the reader with an enormous variety of beautiful language and structure. By creating word plays he enables H.H. to convince the reader to sympathise with him by referring to him as a romantic poet in reality he exploits and sexually abuses Lolita. The first part of this essay deals with the first chapter of Lolita in depth analysing Humbert's language and its effect on the reader.
Nabokov uses language as a device to portray Humbert's thoughts and emotions and to develop him subtly as the major character, established in this first passage. The tone of Humbert Humbert who is the narrator throughout the novel is very gentle to begin with, E g. "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins." This metaphor established the idea that H.H. is a romantic poet. As well as the phrase; "My sin, my soul." Further using the literary device of metaphors, importantly this institutes him as the tragic hero from the beginning g onwards and not as a pervert.
His language contains a lot of literary devices such as metaphors, imagery and alliterations, E.g. "Tip of the tongue taking a trip ", creating images in the readers mind. It allows the reader to view the scene through Humbert's eyes, being dragged into the story and like a critic describes, he makes us his accomplice."
The perhaps most obvious point which can be made about Humbert is his obsession with the
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