tragic - although at the same time comic- character in his pursuit of an impossible happiness for the morsels of which he pays an ever higher price of self-debasement, humiliation and remorse (Bloom 11-12).He even breaks the laws when committing a crime. Being a poet his attitude towards love, this elevated and sacred feeling, is more perceptive, sensitive and pervert than that of other human beings. The problem is that his love is not even a true one.
             As a book about obsession, both carnal and romantic, Nabokov evokes its agony and ecstasy. Lolita captures the wistful ache and blinding madness of such obsession. It is a consequence of his unsatisfied sexual desires. Moreover, his obsession goes farther beyond the borders between love and sexuality, the borders between morality and immorality, normality and abnormality. Thus, human sexuality is not bound to social mores. Incomprehensible and unpredictable, grotesque or beautiful, it is inextricably tied to the heart. As universal experiences love and sexuality in their various forms provide enormous stimuli to the individual states and workings of conscious life.
             Humbert Humbert is a man of taste and culture, who has a strong and revenous appetite for young girls. Throughout the whole book he presents us with the scientific methods of nympholepsy. " Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as "nymphets""(16). However, he does not regard all girl- children as nymphets. He supports the theory that only an expert is capable of recognizing them detecting the difference between a nymphet and an "ordinary, plumpish" little girl. " You have to be an artist and a madman in order to discern at once by ineffable signs the slightly feli...