Hi I'm Gonna Go On A Completely Unsolicited And Spontaneous Rant:
Hi I'm gonna go on a completely unsolicited and spontaneous rant:
Lolita IS a love story.
It IS. One hundred percent.
It is a love story, not between a man and a girl, but from a man, about a girl.
It is a love story, but it is not a healthy love story. It should not make you feel warm and fuzzy. It should make you realize that love can mean different things to different people, and sometimes those people have bad intentions.
The concept of love, through Lolita, is purposefully twisted by the author to make his reader feel a sense of unease-- just as Humbert twists Dolores's sense of dependency, desire, and reality.
For example, remember that there exists a range of both positive and negative coping mechanisms in life. Negative coping mechanisms are still coping mechanisms. They WORK, that's why people USE THEM, but they do not work in a POSITIVE OR HEALTHY way. Similarly, not all love stories have to be shining examples of humanity and health to still be considered love stories.
The message and impact of Lolita only work because the story is a love story. That's the whole point.
To say Lolita is not a love story is to disregard any and all subtextual and thematic intention by the author, and therefore whittle the book down to a grossly surface-level, performative understanding. Don't do that.
So for God's sake, don't romanticize Lolita. But acknowledge that it is a love story, and that it is a horrible love story, and that that's what it is meant to be.
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» Of course your observant brother noticed that your face started blushing the second you laid your eyes on the setter
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» "He's a good kid, I know, but if anything ever happens I want you to tell me right away okay?" "You know we're just friends right?" "YOU'RE NOT DATING YET?" "WHAT DO YOU MEAN YET?"
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