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Summary
Annabel
Humbert
Lolita
Quilty
Charlotte
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Author

• Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977 born in Russia
  aristocratic family

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Author

• Russia ? France ? the United States (1939)?
  Switzerland

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• butterflies ? colorfulness and multifariousness
  in his works

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• 1939 short story of Lolita (European Background)
• 1949 rewrite the story of Lolita
• 1958 published in America

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• Controversial pornography or high-technical art
• (1) the caricature of American society
• (2) a symbol
• Time in Lolita and for Nabokov

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Background

• The Cold War
• The Red Scare
• Anticommunism.
• Eliminating any aberrant behaviors which threat
  to the stability of home and family.

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Background-Gender

• After WW?
• Re-uphold domesticity.
• During WW? Woman had job for the first time

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Background-Sexuality

• Alfred Kinsey
• Most women did not have vaginal orgasms
• Most men had some homosexual experiences

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Background-Sexuality

• Talk about sex more openly
• Oral contraceptive- the forerun of sexual
  revolution in 1960s
• Playboy magazine

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Background-Teenagers

• It is my generation.
• Girls had to negotiate
• New sexual boundaries
• New criteria for being popular
• Also maintain their reputation.

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Background-Television

• Creating the biggest consumer market ever.

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Background-Television

• Bringing about many kinds of changing
  (architecture, food, leisure)

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What is Pedophilia?
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What is Pedophilia?

• The word pedophile means child-lover
• An adult person who desires sex with children.
• They love and care about them emotionally in
  addition to desiring them for
  sexual activity.

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What Do Pedophilias Believe?

• A pedophile realizes that a child may say
• no to sex, and that same child can say yes
  to it!
• Pedophiles understand that society has no right
  to deny a child sexual activity in a manner he or
  she chooses.

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How Pedophilia is described in Lolita?

• imaging in all possible details the enigmatic
  nymphet I would coach in French and Fondle in
  Humbertish. (Part I Chapter 10)

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How Pedophilia is described in Lolita?

• curiously immature bodylistening with
  infantile pleasure
• Precocious pet!

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Why Humbert got Pedophilia?

• ? desire indulged in his first sexual experience
  with Annabel since he was 14
• I am convinced, however, that in a certain
  magic and fateful way Lolita began with Annabel.
  (Part I Chapter 4)

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Why Humbert got Pedophilia?

• All I want to stress is that my discovery of
  her was a fatal consequence of that princedom by
  the sea(Part I Chapter 10)

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Characters-Lolita

• Lolita in the eyes of Humbert
• Annabel
• Nymphet
• Americas immature and vulgar culture

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Characters-Lolita

• Lolita in the eyes of Charlotte
• Disobedient child
• Love rival(Humberts own projection)

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Characters-Lolita

• Lolita Innocence?
• Curiosity
• On purpose
• Adolescent rebellion
• Oedipus complexity
• Humberts own imagination

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Characters-Lolita

• Lolitas relationship with Humbert
• Complementary
• Lolitas complaint and escape

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Characters-Humbert

• Humberts Childhood
• Family formation
• Sexual awakening
• The relation with Annabel

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Characters-Humbert

• .Imaginations Dreams
• Daily sexual imagination
• Dreams

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Characters-Humbert

• Psychical world
• A debased self-centered man
• His attitude toward the other
• How he loves

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Characters-Humbert

• Cultural representation
• Humbert / Lolita
• Europe / U.S.A.

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Writing Style

• The book is named Lolita, but it is narrated by
  Humbert.
• Unreliable narrator.
• Central Intelligence.

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Writing Style - Double-sidedness

• Lolita, or the Confession of a White Widowed Male
• Professor Humbert Humbert

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Writing Style

• Members of the jury.
• Sex Murder.
• Love story Detective story.

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Writing Style -Rich in literary forms

• Confession, testimony, study, description,
  soliloquy, gibberish, pun.
• To defend himself the Bible, Virgil, Dante, and
  Petrarch
• To distract the readers he is accused of murder
  instead of pedophilia.

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Writing Style-Pun

• Dolores Dolly Lolita Lo
• Therapist
• the rapist
• Miss Lester and Miss Fabian
• Lester and Fabian
• Lesbian

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Writing Style

• Clare Quilty
• Quine the Swine.
• Guilty of killing Quilty.
• Clearly Guilty.

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Writing Style - Metafiction

• The value of such work lay in the author, not the
  tale. (Norton)
• lust, fancies, and desire, but no act of sex.