1. would humbert have broken up with lolita if she got too old?
2. why didnt lolita run away if she knew he raped her?
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2006-12-15 06:36:56 · 8 answers · asked by aquagold94 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
1. Earlier in the novel, yes, as can be seen by Humbert's frequent references to his "aging" nymphet. Later, however, his attachment to Lolita goes beyond lust and becomes love.
2. As Humbert said, "She had nowhere else to go."
2006-12-15 06:47:30 · answer #1 · answered by Dorian V. 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1. Humbert contemplates discarding Lol when she grow older, but as the book progresses he becomes very possessive. He begins instead to plan to take her to Mexico and have a daughter with her. You can imagine what his plans were for the daughter.
2. There are two schools of thought. Some view Lolita as manipulative, shrewd and as having seduced Humbert for her own intent. By making him feel guilty over what they were doing together, she held power over him.
On the other hand, she was all of 11 years old when the affair started (in the book. The movie bumped it up to a more "acceptable" 14). She was a child, and she had no family left or resources. And she may not even have realized she had any options; I don't know how much they taught kids about molestation in the 50s and 60s. So even though she knew that what had happened was wrong, she also didn't see herself as having any choices. She was waiting for Clare Quilty to rescue her from him, remember.
2006-12-15 21:27:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure this is just so she doesn't have to do her own hw but... I'm surprised by the respondents who think Humbert felt real love for anyone! Has anyone ever heard of an unreliable narrator?! Humbert is the ideal illustration of one!
People who are abused frequently don't have or know that they have the strength to leave an abuser, to say nothing of a teenage girl!
2006-12-15 15:24:25 · answer #3 · answered by jakomo 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1. Yup! He definitely would have, had she not run away. He DIDN'T genuinely love her until the very end, when he loved her even though she was an "ugly" pregnant teen, and when he realized he stole her childhood, and mourned that loss (as well as her death). At least, that's my take on it. I think if she hadn't run away and all that, he wouldn't have realized he loved her, and he would have used and abused her, and eventually left her when she got too old (that's the trademark of a paedophile).
He dreamed of "breaking up" with her at one point, when he dreamed of her having his child, so that he could molest the child when it got old enough.
2. Remember, she had no family left. She learnt of her mother's death when she was already on the road--she had no where to actually run to! The only person she knew was Humbert, and he was her captor.
Also, I'm sure she didn't *entirely* dislike it--after all, she sometimes used him to get petty clothes and treats and money, as well.
2006-12-15 19:57:47 · answer #4 · answered by Multi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Humbert was really hooked on the girl, he would probably not have realised she got older.
Lolita had no reason whatsoever to run away. The situation was ok for her at the time. I don’t know how it would have evolved for her if they had stayed together but chances are she would have stayed with him.
In any case, I think the book is pretty overrated and out-fashioned by now. It was shocking at the time of publication, but today ???
2006-12-15 17:33:51 · answer #5 · answered by saehli 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Humbert loved Lolita. I don't think he would have left her when she got a lot older.
2006-12-15 14:42:03 · answer #6 · answered by Where To Begin 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
others have answered the first point well, but on the second - she essentially does just that, arranging her escape with Quilty, which turns out to be a much worse situation for her
2006-12-15 20:55:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you mean Nabokov?
2006-12-15 15:04:46 · answer #8 · answered by Suzanne S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋