Symbolism In Lolita

This same truth can be found in Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita”. Like Gatsby, the protagonist, Humbert of the novel Lolita fantasizes of attaining another person and also succeeds. Humbert dreams of grasping and possessing his flawless Lolita who has no will and who can satisfy his sexual desires. The parallelism between these situations is that in Humbert’s quest of molding Lolita, she is completely destroyed, her innocence is snatched from her and so is her right to live. In the same way Tehran’s regime ends up damaging the country and most importantly Islam by utilizing it as an “instrument of oppression” thus wounding the country more profoundly than any other foreign country could have done. In each case, either a person or group of greater