Category: Lolita

This research paper deals with the oppression of women at the hands of state government which uses religious ideologies as a tool to exercise its control and authority. The main focus is to analyze the exploitation of religious practices, particularly veil, for political ends that are shown in Reading Lolita in Tehran. Nafisi has delved…

Released in 1958, in America, Lolita has been read by millions and written about by thousands, as Durantaye said. Many have regarded Lolita as a dangerous piece of fiction, and they have debated its ethical perspective. In my opinion, this novel stands between beauty and repulsion, between reality and disease. These contrasts create a flowing…

Iinherent sexuality, what is most evident is the manner in which Lolita has been forced to prematurely age sexually. In a character who describes all caresses except kisses on the mouth or the stark act of love either romantic slosh or abnormal, a distinct lack of healthy understanding for the stark act of sex is…

Every now and again its probably healthy to crack open the glass, remove a certain world masterpiece from the display case, and in re-reading it recall thatunlike Ulysses and Lady Chatterleys Lover, two other novels once deemed obscene by the tribunes of moral upkeep Lolita is a disgusting book. Furthermore, the day will never come…

The relationship between Nabokovs Humbert Humbert (H.H) and Dolores Haze (Lolita) has provoked nothing short of critical outcry due to its taboo and ethically questionable nature. Although Nabokov advised readers to avoid searching for connections between his works and his personal life, the nymphic fixations experienced in Nabokovs previous works, such as Lilith (1938) contributed…