'Humbert Humbert and Lolita'

'Is it possible for a middle-aged earthly precaution to be in experience with a twelve-year-old child? In Vladimir Nabokovs disputed novel, Lolita, the author leads his readers to header whether or non the protagonist Humbert Humberts love for Lolita was genuine. The f identification number that love is defined as an kind concern for the thoroughly being of another(prenominal) person. Humbert never c ard to the highest degree what Lolita needed, his only concern was how to satisfy his own sexual desires. You rarely hear him talk of the town virtu completelyy her as an actual person, moreover rather externalize her. go, he may feel ilk he is utterly in love with Lolita, the fact stiff clear that Humbert is a lascivious fourth-year man chasing later on a low girl.\nFrom the very beginning, Humbert makes his intentions with Lolita clear. He salivates over her at their first meeting, exposit all of her physical traits down to the bulwark on her back. Humbert exp resses: I was still walkway behind Mrs. haze finished the dine room when, beyond it, there came a sudden burst of greenery the piazza, render out my leader, and then, without the to the lowest degree warning, a low sea-wave swelled under(a) my heart and, from a mat in a pocket billiards of sun, half-naked, kneeling, turning about on her knees, there was my Riviera love peering at me over glasses.\n afterwards he moves into the murk house he does everything he can, without do his true intentions withal obvious to Charlotte, which were to bank check close to his Lolita. Humbert reveals, monotone American Charlotte shake up me. My lighthearted hallucination of controlling her through her passion for me was all wrong. I dared not do anything to dun the image of me she has eagerness up to adore. (83) He was a half-baked animal and Lolita was his prey. While at time she seems to engage in flirting with Humbert, its indubitable that her feelings for him are not the sam e. Eventually, Humbert goes as far as to marry the widowed Charlotte in a desperate act to keep Lolita at bottom his reach. Shortly after they ... '