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Balance Rendered in Lolita
Lolita centers on the obsession of a middle aged pedophile. When pedophilia changes to mere incest, Nabokov’s Lolita tells of the conflicting realities of roles assigned to Humbert Humbert. ... Question immorality or not, Humbert Humbert must face the cruel personality of Lolita Haze, a young girl subjected to these maturing realities. ... Lolita mirrors itself, with linking aspects of balance and symmetry, through the duality of roles of Humbert Humbert must carry out throughout the novel. ... In a meeting he has with Lolita’s administrator in school, she advises him to break the rules in order to make Lo aware of the consequences of her actions. ...
In order to operate this conceptual balance with words and imagery, Humbert visualizes on Lolita playing tennis. Lolita foremost is an out of control girl with spontaneous wiles and an improper etiquette. ... He writes, “I was always with Lolita as a woman with child.” Humbert displays the dual role of mother and child with his father and lover relationship with Lolita. ... Humbert finds validity to being desirous of Lolita. ... Humbert sees Lolita as innocent and sweet in playing tennis but compare to her real personality and her approach to him, she is harshly direct and threatening to his well-being. Again, a mirroring effect places on the role of Lolita has on Humbert creating this balance of opposing forces of the personality and action. ... Being with Lolita, acting beyond than a father figure, but as a therapist, Humbert analyses Lolita’s well being influenced with his in fatuous desire over this nymphet and his contemptuous view of her threatening immature personality (However, of which he both adores). He assumes an analytic approach of Lolita as a girl, he writes “[There] are limits and rules of such girlish games are fluid, or at least too childishly subtle for the senior partner to grasp” (113). ... By analyzing Lolita’s personal being as a girl, he manipulates the situation of being a lover and a skeptic in his relationship to Lolita. ... He finds Charlie Holmes the rapist, the one who took Lolita’s virginity.
Approximate Word count = 1740
Approximate Pages = 7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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