I watched her as she ran through the sprinkler, squealing with delight and amusement. The air was filled with her joyous peals of laughter. Her clothes clung to her thin frame as water dripped from her wild hair and those long, childishly thick eyelashes. Surrounded by a halo of water mist, her celestial beauty was spellbinding. The impression of my love is forever engrained into my heart and soul. In Lolita, written by Vladimir Nabokov, we can observe the main character, Humbert Humbert, and his insatiable desire to know Lolita. Humbert claims that it is Lolita that is to blame for his neurotic infatuation. In reading Lolita, we can see how Lolita not only fulfills the nymphet archetype, but may also possess some of the seductive attributes of a femme fatale. By analyzing Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov, and comparing it to works of literature and literary criticism, we can analyze some of the archetypes found in Lolita.
“Now I wish to introduce the following idea. Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers… reveal their true nature …show more content…
Humbert almost seems to be more of a femme fatale than Lolita – with the obvious flaw in that theory being that he is a man. Despite the fact that he doesn’t technically qualify as a fatal woman, Humbert does cause a great deal of direct damage and pain in Lolita’s life. It begins with his initial infatuation with Lolita. He keeps a journal of his feelings for Lolita. This journal is the very reason that Charlotte Haze rushes out of the house in a mortified frenzy. She had been in such a hurry to expose Humbert that she hadn’t bothered to look both ways and had been hit by car. (Nabokov 98) Instead of immediately telling Lolita that her mother had been killed, Humbert took her away from camp and began the road trip across the United
“Now I wish to introduce the following idea. Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers… reveal their true nature …show more content…
Humbert almost seems to be more of a femme fatale than Lolita – with the obvious flaw in that theory being that he is a man. Despite the fact that he doesn’t technically qualify as a fatal woman, Humbert does cause a great deal of direct damage and pain in Lolita’s life. It begins with his initial infatuation with Lolita. He keeps a journal of his feelings for Lolita. This journal is the very reason that Charlotte Haze rushes out of the house in a mortified frenzy. She had been in such a hurry to expose Humbert that she hadn’t bothered to look both ways and had been hit by car. (Nabokov 98) Instead of immediately telling Lolita that her mother had been killed, Humbert took her away from camp and began the road trip across the United