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A 4 page paper which examines the importance and meaning of the last lines of the novel “Lolita” by Vladimir Nabokov. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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4 pages (~225 words per page)
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we are presented with a memoir of sorts that he is writing to Lolita as he sits in prison awaiting his death. The final lines of the story are powerful
and symbolically important to the understanding of the resolutions found within the story. The following paper examines and analyzes these closing lines. Lolita In the end of the
story of Lolita Humbert writes: "I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you
and I may share, my Lolita" (Nabokov 309). In this we see that Humbert knows that they will never be together again, and there is a hint that they should
never have been together in the first place. In order to better understand those perspectives, however, we must look at a general summary of the story itself. In this story
Humbert is in love with Lolita, or in lust with her, when she is 12 years of age. He marries her mother to be close to her but the mother
is killed and this leaves Humbert alone with Lolita. They travel across the country and engage in a sexual relationship. Back at home their relationship becomes a bit strained and
they go on another trip, but Lolita runs away with another man. Humbert finds her years later, when she is 18 and married and pregnant. He sets out to kill
the man who took her away from him and then lands in prison. He realizes that what he has done, in relationship with Lolita, is completely immoral and wrong, if
not disgusting in the eyes of morality. From this simple explanation we see that Humbert has slowly realized, through his time in prison perhaps, that he was wrong to
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