Blog Post #6- Responding and Reflecting

Now that I have finished the entirety of Lolita, I will begin to give my final thoughts on simply the characters, specifically Humbert Humbert and his lover and step daughter, Dolores, otherwise known as Lolita. Humbert is the more easily understandable of the two, surprisingly. His traumatic experience of losing his young love coupled with being exposed to sex much too early in his life along with the fact that he did not have a constant parental figure in his life had all muddled together to bring into being Humbert Humbert, the book's resident pedophile and narrator. It is unfortunate that he eventually released all of his pent up sexual frustration on losing his childhood love on Lolita, becoming obsessive and controlling, even threatening her and a few other people at several points in the story. Humbert, by his very nature, is a control freak, pure and simple. He is a predator, he even refers to himself as such a few times in the novel, and as a predator he must always be in control of the situation, must always have his prey. In this case, the prey would be Dolores. Because of this he must always have her in his sights, and he becomes paranoid and dangerously unstable when she is not under his control. He even reaches the point of claiming that if Dolores were to tell the police that he had been raping her, that she would be abused and lose any chance at a good life due to becoming a ward of the state. He did his best to trap her in his web so that he could have her for himself and fulfill the fantasies that had been raging through him since the loss of his Annabelle, and once his hold on her squeezed too tight, she left him for good.