Lolita Banned

Stories, art, and life were designed to give pleasure and produce happiness. Humans seek a utopia were they can feel comfortable and at ease. Often times ignoring a particular topic or issue is the best way to insure tranquility. But there are times certain humans get caught up with the ignorance and irrational thinking from others. This tends to affect the person both physically and psychologically because they have been affected by the other individual’s problem which has led them to enter into a world of discomfort. Such is the case of the novel “Lolita” by Vladimir Nabokov. In this novel the reader gets absorbed into a world of sinister ideologies and sickening encounters. No one should have to deal with such gruesome topic that serves no good or benefit. These topics should be banned in in order to preserve the wellbeing of the human mind and body.
Through the use of language an author or narrator can manipulate the readers mind into developing certain emotions that can favor an individual’s actions. Such is the case with the narrator Humbert Humbert who uses poetic language and clever word choice in order to disguise his pedophile actions towards Lolita. For example Humbert starts the novel of by describing Lolita in an affectionate and caring manner. He describes her as “light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul” (Nabokov 9). His use of descriptive word choice manipulates the reader into assuming that he is in fact truly moved and in love with Lolita despite their age differences. They can also assume that Humbert has no negative intentions to harm Lolita as the way he describes her with such delicacy makes it seem she is his world. This causes the novel to be considered trash because Humbert use of manipulative language is used as an excuse to cause the readers to feel empathy for him instead of disgust or concern for Lolita’s innocence and