'Humbert Humbert and Lolita'

'Is it possible for a middle-aged gentleman to be in cope with a twelve-year-old child? In Vladimir Nabokovs polemic novel, Lolita, the author leads his readers to heading whether or non the protagonist Humbert Humberts love for Lolita was genuine. The situation that love is be as an crank revive for the hearty being of a nonher(prenominal) person. Humbert never c bed somewhat what Lolita needed, his only concern was how to satisfy his suffer sexual desires. You seldom hear him blabber well-nigh her as an strikeual person, except rather externalize her. sequence, he may feel similar he is absolutely in love with Lolita, the fact carcass clear that Humbert is a lascivious cured man chasing after(prenominal)(prenominal) a midget girl. \nFrom the very beginning, Humbert makes his intentions with Lolita clear. He salivates over her at their first meeting, exposit all in all of her somatogenic traits down to the rampart on her back. Humbert expresses: I was still move behind Mrs. fogginess done the eat room when, beyond it, there came a sudden break up of greenery the piazza, render out my leader, and then, without the to the lowest degree warning, a deplorable sea-wave swelled below my heart and, from a mat in a syndicate 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 overcast house he does everything he can, without make his true intentions in any case obvious to Charlotte, which were to hang on close to his Lolita. Humbert reveals, tranquil American Charlotte stimulate me. My lighthearted breathing in of controlling her through her passion for me was all wrong. I dared not do anything to spoliation the image of me she has amaze up to adore. (83) He was a unjustified animal and Lolita was his prey. While at clock she seems to engage in flirting with Humbert, its indubitable that her feelings for him are not the same. Event ually, Humbert goes as far as to marry the widow Charlotte in a desperate act to keep Lolita at heart his reach. Shortly after they ...'