Lolita

1. HumbertÆs desire for Lolita is based on his ability to appreciate her stage of development, an age when she is both wholesome and innocent but also on the verge of being a sexual temptress.

a. We see HumbertÆs aesthetic appreciation and sexual desire for Lolita in one passage where he subjectively describes her dualistic appeal to him: ôYou have to be an artist and a madmanàin order to discern at onceàthe little deadly demon among the wholesome children; she stands unrecognized by them and unconscious herself of her fantastic power,ö (Nabokov, p. 101).

2. There is no denying that Humbert Humbert has sexual longing for Lolita. However, within this desire there is also a more paternal and aesthetic appreciation of a younger girl full of life and with her whole future ahead of her by a middle-aged

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