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Lolita

J.G. Gallimore once stated, “Imagine creates desire, you will what you imagine.” This quote reminded me of the film “Lolita” that we watched in class. One of the main characters, Humbert Humbert played by actor Jeremy Irons truly reflects this quote. Humbert starts out as a young boy deeply in love with a beautiful girl by the name of Annabelle. He is devastated when she dies from an illness called Tyfus. I think Humbert reflects the quote throughout the movie because he imagines and desires that someday he will find a woman that will fill the shoes of his lovely Annabelle. Humbert says in the film, “the poison was in the wound you see, and the wound would not heal.” This is the first suggestion that Humbert cannot get over the loss of Annabelle.

The role of fourteen year old Dolores Haze, also known as Lolita was played by actress Dominique Swain. The movie throws in many clues to remind the viewers that Lolita is still a child. Some of these symbols include the retainer that she wears in her mouth and disgustingly takes out numerous times throughout the film. Her childish ways are also represented in the way Lolita speaks to her mother, how she displays her crush towards Humbert, her manners which are n


As far as Lolita’s mother, Charlotte Haze played by Melanie Griffith goes, I think she knew all along that Lolita had a thing for Humbert. I think that Charlotte was jealous of Lolita’s flirtatious relationship with Humbert and that is most likely why Lolita was sent off to summer camp. Charlotte wanted her daughter out of the house so she could make a move with Humbert. Charlotte might have felt as if she could get Humbert to marry her, then Lolita would have no interest in him anymore because he would then be her step-father. Although Charlotte was a nice woman, she was also very demanding and if Humbert refused to marry her then he would be asked to leave the home and there would never be a chance with Lolita.

In Humbert’s final deviant act, he goes to Clare Quilties mansion and kills him. This scene shows that he was truly aware of everything that had happened and that he was sorry for taking Lolita’s childhood from her but he was also angry and jealous of Quilty for taking his true love from him. At the end of the story, I really think that Humbert was sorry for everything he had done to Lolita, her mother, and himself and I had to feel a little bit bad for Humbert myself because Lolita couldn’t find it in her to forgive him and Humbert left her home with a broken heart.

For Humbert, sleeping with Dolores was a bitter sweet feeling. He said in the film that, “despite all their fights and her faces, I was in Paradise, a hell colored Paradise.” This goes to prove that he knew what he was doing was morbid but it still felt so right because he really loved her.

In society this unlawful act of child sexual abuse would be considered one of the few mores that this country actually has. Humbert would be looked at as a dirty, corrupted, outsider. In the film, Humbert realizes what he has done and he says he is a, “willing corruptor of the innoce

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