Lolita

Rob Brinson

Literature and media

Lolita

I want to start off my paper with a quote from p.215 “All of a sudden I noticed that he had noticed that I did not seem to have noticed Chum protruding from beneath the other corner of the chest. We fell to wrestling again. We rolled all over the floor, in each other's arms, like two huge helpless children. He was naked and goatish under his robe, and I felt suffocated as he rolled over me. I rolled over him. We rolled over me. They rolled over him. We rolled over us.” This to me explains the emotions and awkward moments that make this novel known as an erotic novel. The social standards and pushed very hard during this whole book by showing the Lolita growing up from being just a little girl in an non social standard kind of way.

This is my favorite quote in the book in the opening chapter. “You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your loins and a super-voluptuous flame aglow in your subtle spine (oh, how you have to cringe and hide!), in order to discern at once, by ineffable signs—the slightly feline outline of a cheekbone, the slenderness of a downy limb, and other indices which despair and shame and tears of tenderness forbid me to tabulate—the deadly little demon among the wholesome children; she stands unrecognized by them and unconscious herself of her fantastic power.” This shows how individualistic this girl is probably because of the parents death and other instances but opens the story up for a great character.