Lolita Essay Examples

A doppelganger, or a double is a character that mirrors and reflects the protagonist of the text. The doppelganger may physically resemble the protagonist, or the two characters may share other common traits. In Nabokov’s Lolita, the use of the double questions the extent of...

I want to explore the link between Psychoanalysis and author, Vladimir Nabokov. Believing there are strong parallels between the two; psychoanalysis is a theory of interpretation of the mind and that literature is also a form of representation of the human mind. Considering this theory,...

Is it a possibility, as historical authors created specific typologies for a fictional character who’s only purpose serves as the story’s villainous character or monster, foreshadows the typology of one of society’s modern monsters? Although Lolita, a fictional genre in historical literature written by Vladimir...

Lolita is a novel published in 1955 and written by Russian-American author and poet Vladimir Nabokov. After immigrating to the United States from Europe, the protagonist Humbert Humbert becomes sexually obsessed with a twelve-year old girl, Dolores Haze, who tends to go by the name...

It is of disgusting brilliance on how Vladimir Nabokov was able to pull off a novel that exposed not just the vigor of men but also the inner battles men face as resembled by Humbert Humbert. Lolita is a novel which evolves on the character...