Essays on Lolita

Kawaii, in the context of Japanese culture is the quality of cuteness and has become one of most prominent aspect of the Japanese popular culture such as the unique Japanese Fashion Styles. Prior to being a modern translation of cute, the world signifies shyness or a form of embarrassment in the past. Due to the unique and liberating feeling brought by the culture it is no wonder that it took the world via storm. The term Kawaii was initially seen from Lady Muraki’s The Tale of Genji that highlighted pitiable characteristics. Before the term refers to women being ...

The twenty-year stay of Nabokov in America, which began May 25, 1940, was associated with a typical emigrant life issues. A graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge taught at Stanford and Cornell University, he taught Russian language and literature, as he himself said, “the sons and daughters of the industrial America” (Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years, 47). Summer leisure time he spent traveling through the vast continent, without ceasing to write, and catch butterflies, which was associated with it work in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. No matter how Nabokov insisted during the last 20 years of ...

The short passage is evidence as to the suffering and agony that the monster, Frankenstein, experienced as a result of his loneliness and the grotesque sight that he was taken to be. Filled with anger and indignation that surged out of his painful quest for companionship, Frankenstein sought to wage vengeance on his creator, Victor Frankenstein, and make his life as painful as his own (Cobley, p 33). Surrendering to his painful fate, that of a monster, Frankenstein decides to adopt an evil nature which he was unwillingly chosen and crated for.

The theme of monstrosity is dominantly evidenced in this passage. ...

Introduction

The recent technological innovation brought many changes in the society over the past century. The twentieth century is a period of technological change; almost everything is not permanent and constantly evolving in order to make the society a better place to live. In the earlier days, man has only known few methods of communication; however, in the modern era, man had already explored the universe bringing forth the latest gadgets to support their needs. In addition, the invention of the World Wide Web is in fact the most helpful tool to search for countless of online information from around the world. ...

The book jacket is the outer cover of a book that has colorful pictures and words. The back of the cover has flaps displaying the author’s biography. The book jacket makes effort to promote the book and protect the book from damage. Jamie Keenan and Chipp Kidd are examples of graphic designers who produce the book jacket. This paper compares and contrasts Keenan and Kidd works as graphic designers. The two are some of the best graphic designers in the world and have an enormous contribution in designing book jacket. Chipp Kidd is a renowned book designer in the ...

Lolita was written by Vladimir Nabokov back in 1955 and spread over the literary world like wildfire. The book was excellently written by its native Russian author and was later translated into the Russian language by Vladimir as well. The book has met with a lot of controversy as well as critical acclaim. The approach of the author was magnificent and certainly, very puzzling at times. His depiction of Lolita and Humbert is one that is seen as a 20th century master class by many. The book is narrated by a 38 year old literature professor who gets involved romantically with a 12 ...

The Mark of Zorro is an action packed serial story of a masked superhero fighting the cruel and corrupt leaders who are exploiting and oppressing the poor. The story belongs to the early 19th century in Los Angeles, California during Spanish rule. It is novel and was first published under the title ‘Curse of Capistrano’ on All-Story Weekly magazine in 1919. The novel is romantic, imaginative and adventurous. The story begins by introducing a rich and young aristocrat, Don Diego, who is the son of the richest rancher in the country. Unlike his peers, Diego is a person who lacks vigor ...

Regardless of the reason for which it occurs, lying allows the creation of a world in which individuals would want to live. The girls from “Girl, Interrupted”, the women from “Notes on Scandal”, Humbert Humbert in “Lolita” or William Styron in “Darkness Visible” all appeal to lies for creating the reality that they envision or for depicting the world in which they think they live. Juxtaposing two worlds, the imagined and the real one, the characters of the above mentioned readings and films balance their existence in the two worlds by appealing to lies, for justifying their dual existence. For ...

In the novel Lolita, which was written by Vladimir Nabokov, the dominant force of the narrator, Humbert Humbert, is his need to prove himself to be the master of everything from his own desires to fate to other people and to language itself. In several occasions in the novel, Humbert Humber’s actions and emotions appear to be guided by the psychosocial need to possess, control, and to win. In his view, which is greatly contested and criticized by feminists, women gender relations provide that women are possession, which men should compete for them in the society. He occasionally ...

Introduction

Probably all cultures have sayings or proverbs that tell about how not important is defining a person by an appearance. Many fairy tales and fables talk about the understanding of monstrous; quite often monstrosity is not about the appearance at all, but rather someone’s actions, beliefs, and inner moral compass. In Frankenstein, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Lolita, the authors each try to define their characters monstrous in their own way, and in the interim, make the reader to review his or her own thoughts on individual’s monstrosity.

Monstrosity

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Introduction

Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita” is a highly controversial, although very popular novel, as it recalls the memories of a widowed white man, who uses the pseudonym Humbert Humbert (H.H.) for confessing his crimes: homicide and pedophilia. The novel represents a self-analysis of Humbert Humbert’s mind, who addresses a jury, appealing to their understanding for his actions. This essay discusses about how Humbert Humbert’s uses the confessional mode in “Lolita”, for triggering the compassion of a jury by exploring the side of them that would tolerate his crimes, because they too could or might have experienced similar ideas, feelings, sensations and behaviors in ...

Many cultures have sayings or proverbs regarding the importance of not defining an individual by his or her appearance. Many fairy tales and fables deal with the importance of understanding what truly makes something or someone monstrous; often, it is not necessarily an individual’s appearance that defines their monstrosity, but their actions, beliefs, and inner moral compass. In Frankenstein, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Lolita, the authors each take a different path to examine what makes their characters monstrous, and in the interim, challenge the reader to re-examine his or her own definitions of ...