Lolita Essay - Day II

[changeling67]

Lollipops - the signifier of childhood.  Right now, I am trying to piece together my essay, where once again it feels like a herculean task.  It's a notoriously touchy subject - how to prove that indeed Humbert was a predator and that he didn't show any true pity or understanding of a girl, or behaved appropriately.  So many people like the licentious side of what it represents i.e. underage sex, but they throughout the discourse, they fail to see the damage.  Once again, I have to suspend my point of view and actually be quite calculating with what I am about to write in this assignment.

* sigh * - wish I could've stayed in Glastonbury....

22:48
1,315 - now that doesn't seem a lot more than yesterday (less than 200 in fact), but I had to start from scratch again and suddenly, I was writing like a bard!!! Like - wow, wish every day could be like this.  I have to now use Kincaid tomorrow to profile his behaviors and why he fits the prototype perv, plus I think I will have to dig around the 'fase child' syndrome, where distance and objectification contribute to Humbert's stasis and that of the memory of his original love.

Jeez, if I could have a max output of 1,325 every day, then I would be done in three days. Onward tomorrow :-)

Comments

[rosegardenfae.livejournal.com]

In another lifetime I wrote a paper. "Beowulf, a symbol of cultural annihilation." Your post reminds me of those days.Good luck. You are making progress.

[calico-pye.livejournal.com]

I want to study 'Beowulf' when I have finished my degree - from the excerpts that I have read, it would be right up my street. My former lecterer studied it in its original language. Don't envy her at all.

[bluegerl.livejournal.com]

What a wicked picture, lovely far-too-sweet lollipops and suckables!

Do you have to prove he was a predator...? I rather got the feeling that it was Lolita who predated... and silly old Humbert was putty in her hands, and who was such a pathetic child in his pestering, like a baby crying for attention. She certainly used him, and then dumped without a seeming qualm.. I wonder if she ever suffered from 'Mental Trauma' for being sexually abused... as they all seem to be these days.

I think I blame his Mother for his odd behaviour. I wonder what SHE did when he was a baby! ????!

I do love N's writing tho. (and I am still chortling over Joyce... found a delic phrase. Talking about Burke...the alco.lawyer,,
"He has a wonderful future behind him." !!!! Oh WOW.... teehee.

Hope all is well and you're winning?!?! XXXXXX

[calico-pye.livejournal.com]

His mother died when he was three then a key love interest when he was a teen - the two overlapped somehow.

I think that the way that Nabokov writes gives Humbert a sympathetic chartacter, but when you unscramble his choice of words and her reactions, it is quite plain that he was an abuser. reading back over it a second time, it kinda leaps off the page at you.

There is a certain amount of humour in 'Ulysses' - very human element.

I have restarted a second draft on 'Lolita' as the first one wasn't making a lot of sense - hopefully, I can see the wood from the trees :-)

[bluegerl.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, he did abuse by manipulation of whinings... cos she did just 'put up' with him as necessary, but she always put that on her list of 'owings'. He was just pathetic really, and thank goodness not a rough and brutal abuser.. those are perfectly horrible, but Humbert was more of a whiny pest really. He must have been dead boring!!! But she was not an 'innocent' in that little head of hers...she did remind me a lot of my sister! Knew which side of the bread was the butter!

I spose I might have been looking for/expecting the rather nastier sort of abuser... the beatings-up/raping nasty sort.

So maybe he wanted his 'mother' who wasn't there, to love him as his little baby mind remembered someone had - played with little willies or something?

Tell you what tho. he'd have driven me POTTY in a couple of days, useless eeejit! sporfle!