Love Beyond Obsession and its moral consequences in Vladimr
Nabokov's Lolita touches upon the theme of sexual prohibition, the sexual inviolability of girls of a certain age. Lolita is an assertion of the power of spirit of love, but not as a natural, pure feeling. It is love that goes beyond control and regulation, love that in one way or another leads into the destruction of many human beings.This wild, strong passion imprisons the protagonist and flies beyond the established norms of the society. It deviates into a wrong direction and leads to unruly, ungoverned behavior. We stumble and fall into the tangle of what we want and what others think is right. Despite our suffering we never really pierce the mystery of ourselves and why our most basic desires collide with a world of right and wrong.Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita triggers a deep conflict about crossing the line between love and the perverse lust for a child. The dual personality, Humbert Humbert, is totally captured and obsessed by the beauty and the spontaneous nature of the twelve- year old "nymphet", Dolores Haze, which as a consequence changes his personality and way of living. Gradually, this fatal pervert love turns into a deep doomed obsession which leads him into a world where no moral constraints exist, a world ruled o
Humbert Humbert is a man of taste and culture, who has a strong and revenous appetite for young girls. As a symbol of her new-found control over Humbert, Lolita demands intercourse while Humbert, having "adjusted" and seeing her again as a nymphet, is now her prisoner. Furthermore, this is love at first sight. He can ape, and clown, spin excuses and dramatic confessions, exult with triumph or rage with frustration. As universal experiences love and sexuality in their various forms provide enormous stimuli to the individual states and workings of conscious life. Society does not accept Humbert's conduct and accuses him of being guilty of ruining a child's life. But he does not apply himself into the position chosen for him by others. Although, unfortunately he is unaware of the consequences of his actions. Furthermore, like other evil fairy mothers and stepmothers "she simply hated her daughter"(80). The idea that children might be demonic is no pretext to explain them. For his fatal love, Humbert lives constantly in a melancholic state, a state which is typical mostly for women. Humbert and Lolita have been drifting apart for a long time, and Humbert' control over her is declining fast.
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