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Bailee 2022-04-22 07:01:26

The writing is delicate, the inner drama is full, and the erotic drama is full. Even though the gentle and gentle Humbert has a twisted inner world, he is still full of sympathy for him based on the shadow of his unfortunate first love. I even very much agree with the reference in the novel "Oops, I totally know that I can get any grown woman I want as long as I hit a torreya with my finger". Humbert knew he was guilty, and he wanted to throw away that dangerous lust. Therefore, before meeting Mrs. Haze, he also had a marriage. "For my own safety, I decided to get married. I thought, a regular work schedule, three meals at home, the customs of marriage...if it doesn't get rid of my shameful and dangerous desires, at least it might help me. Bring these desires under peaceful control." But his wife's derailment made him meet Lolita by chance, and made him realize that he needed Lolita. In the second half of the trip, Humbert was already a paranoid prisoner of Lolita. The young girl Lolita did not seduce Humbert. She was neither an undeveloped and unattractive young girl, nor a mature woman who knew how to use her own charm, but a veritable "little fairy". There are too many teenage girls who look like Lolita, but they don't meet Humbert. It was her misfortune, not her fault, that Lolita met Humbert. The social environment's attitude toward age is contradictory with respect to physical maturity. The first part of the original book ends with this: "In that happy town of Lepinville, I bought her four comic strips, a box of sweets, a box of sanitary napkins, two cans of Coca-Cola, a set of manicures. ··" The suggestion of a box of sanitary napkins directly pushes the contradiction between the recognition of physical maturity and social maturity to the reader's eyes.

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Lolita quotes

  • Charlotte Haze: There's a nice view from this window... of the front lawn.

  • Charlotte Haze: Is, um, Madame Humbert, um...

    Humbert Humbert: There's no "Madame". We are divorced...

    Charlotte Haze: Oh...

    Humbert Humbert: *Happily* divorced.

    Charlotte Haze: When did all this happen?

    Humbert Humbert: About a year ago - in Paris.

    Charlotte Haze: Oh, Paris, France, madame... You know, monsieur, I really believe that it's only in the Romance Languages that one is able to really relate in a mature fashion. In fact I remember when the late Mr. Haze and I... when we were on our honeymoon abroad, I knew that I'd never felt married until I'd heard myself addressed as "Senora".

    Humbert Humbert: So you were in Spain?

    Charlotte Haze: No, Mexico!

    Humbert Humbert: Oh, Mexico, mm-hmm!

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