Who Is Vladimir Nabokov?

Lolita is one of the Vladimir Nabokov’s well-known novels. This novel is one of the greatest novels in twenty-first century, as it contains one of the most disputable characters in the history of literature. Nabokov is a Russian-American author, whose works have influenced popular culture. This novel explores the feelings of compassion, love, heartbreak, in a beautifully yet disturbing way. The two main characters in this novel Humbert Humbert, our narrator, and Dolores Haze, disguise massive segment of their personalities from the world and from each other. As audience we can see that Humbert is an egotism, murderer, and pedophile as Humbert himself describes himself as. The narrator successfully makes himself appeal a sympathetic pedophile. …show more content…
However due to his strong desire of nymphet his marrieds didn’t last long. Valeria was Humbert’s first wife, whom he married to overcome his craving for nymphets. Humbert finds Valeria intellectually inferior and often bullies her, this show one of his characteristic as superior. Another woman Humbert got marry to was Charlotte Haze, the mother of Lolita. His only intention of marrying Charlotte was to get closer to Lolita. To get Charlotte out the picture Humbert even tried to drown Charlotte, this illustrated how the narrator was obsessed with Lolita. If he really loved Lolita he wouldn’t have had taking her youth hood away from her and never thought of murdering her mother. Charlotte relationship with Lolita may have been strained throughout the novel, and that Charlotte stays blind to his pedophilia and lust for her daughter and worships Humbert, Charlotte was the only family that Dolores had. Charlotte nor her daughter were attractive Humbert usually refers to Charlotte derisively as Mama or the Haze woman he even called her fat, pig as audience we can almost imagine Charlotte as the narrator used a lot of visual description of Charlotte . He wasn’t attractive to Lolita because he often refers to her skinny arms, freckles and her unladylike behavior. The only reason Humbert wanted Lolita and not her mother was that because Lolita fitted his description of a …show more content…
However Humbert is a completely unreliable narrator and his myopic, self-delusion, and need for sympathy which makes many of his statement a litter suspect, when he claims that Lolita seduced him and that she was in complete control of the relationship, regarding that Lolita was only child and he was the adult which gives him he upper hand. He refused to acknowledge that Lolita may have not felt the same was as he felt about her. It is clear that Humbert Humhert was just obsessed over Lolita. His language made him a persuasive narrator. When Humbert's actions and behavior are compared to the experts' definitions and descriptions of obsession it is clear that Humbert was compulsion to