Posts Tagged: Humbert

Trivial Pursuit: Sexuality and American Culture Edition For my creative project, I chose to create a board game – Trivial Pursuit: Sexuality and American Culture Edition. Initially, my intent was to create a game that would test the knowledge our class gained over the course of the semester in a fun, nontraditional way. However, I […]

“I think love breaks all taboos. Don’t you?” (67)

More Than Something Gone Wrong: A Life Born of Fate Calliope Stephanides (of Middlesex) is much like Humbert (of Lolita) in his belief in fate. In both cases the narrators outline  a series of events, down to small details, and highlight the fact that if any one of these things had happened differently their stories […]

Humbert Humbert and Class From the outset of Nabokov’s Lolita, it is apparent that issues of culture and class will be of considerable importance to the unfolding of the narrative.  Humbert Humbert is born of parents of different ethnic backgrounds and grows up in the life of a privileged child in Western Europe.  His early […]

Nabokov writes with beautiful ambiguity.  He uses words in a way that makes the reader question what she just read and, perhaps, turn back to read it again.  An example of this is seen in Chapter 13 when Humbert apparently masturbates on the couch next to Lolita while she is oblivious to what he is […]