Lolita Perspective

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Recommended: An appreciation of Lolita

Perspective in a work like Lolita is extremely vital and is the defining factor of this novel. Contrary to what the reader might initially expect from a story about a sexual predator, Humbert Humbert presented himself as well-read and comical friend with a minute problem. This idea was shown by the quote from page 93 which stated, “We are unhappy, mild dog-eyed gentlemen, sufficiently well integrated to control our urge in the presence of adults, but ready to give years and years of our life for one chance to touch a nymphet. Emphatically, no killers are we. Poets never kill.” (Nabokov 93) Despite this claim from our narrator, the statement is contradictory to the climax of the novel. When Humbert learned Lolita willingly left the hospital

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