Lolita+Analysis+by+Ryan+Chong

Lolita |lōˈlētə| noun a sexually precocious young girl. ORIGIN from the name of a character in the novel //Lolita// (1958) by Vladimir Nabokov.

Opening shot of a foot and pedicure -> Fetish Mansion Littered with expensive loot -> Materialism -> Fetish Rich people don't care -> Quilty does not show fear when he has a gun pointed to him

The opening scene starts in the middle of the story with the main character helping Lolita with a pedicure, then it fades to black and moves onto the ending of the story, a foggy road with one wagon driving on it. From the ending it goes back to the beginning where the story makes its way to the end in a linear fashion.



The inciting incident is when the Dr.Humbert Humbert gets to the Haze’s house and checks out the room he was going to lodge in because he was interested in Lolita Haze, but Charlotte Haze (Lolita’s Mother), who is interested in Humbert, doesn’t know that. The major plot point is when Lolita, Charlotte, and Humbert goes to the school dance. Then another point in the story is at the dance, Lolita's mother meets Clare Quilty, the "famous" actor that Charlotte talked about previously with Humbert. Charlotte and Humbert head home to have a romantic time while Lolita goes to a after-party. Humbert talks to Charlotte about being more strict on Lolita. Lolita leaves the party early and sees Charlotte and Humbert dancing the Cha Cha. Charlotte throws a fit at Lolita and Humbert stands to witness. The next day, after you see Humbert write his diary, you see Lolita fooling around with Humbert behind Charlotte’s back. Charlotte takes Humbert’s comment and puts Lolita into summer school. Humbert is upset about that, and when Lolita leaves for summer school, she wrote Humbert a letter professing her interest in him. Time goes by, Charlotte and Humbert gets married because Charlotte professed her love to him as well. The two come back from their honeymoon and Charlotte tells Humbert that she wants to put Lolita into a Christian boarding school right after summer school so that Lolita learns her discipline. While Humbert takes his time thinking about this, Charlotte sneaks into his rooms and reads his diary, which she finds, to her horror, descriptions of her that she would very much resent, such as the “Haze Lady”, or “Cow”. In a fit, she walks out into the road and kills herself by letting a car hit her. Humbert decides to get Lolita out of summer school and travel a long way with her. They encounter Clare Quilty by chance in a hotel. Clare decides to follow them secretly. Lolita knows Clare is following but Humbert does not. Clare follows a long way. Lolita gets sick, and Humbert sends her to a hospital. Clare takes Lolita away in the middle of the night. Humbert doesn’t see Lolita for another 3 years. 3 years went by and Lolita left Clare. She found another man and is about to have a baby with him. She doesn’t have enough money to support the baby and asks Humbert for it through mail. Humbert gets the mail and drives to find Lolita. Humbert finds out Lolita was once in love with Clare. He also finds that when he noticed strange people on his long journey, they were all Clare Quilty in disguise. Humbert wants Lolita to leave with him, but she refuses. He cries and looks for Quilty for revenge, going back to the opening sequence.

__Quote__ "‘Lolita’ has become a recognizable word in the English language, having taken up a life of its own, with ever widening connota- tions and rarely if ever a reference to its literary progenitor. ‘Lolita’, the now word, is a term used to de- scribe a certain type of young woman-usually a teenage girl with precocious sexual drive that proves ruinous to the life of a sinful older man. The word (often lower- cased to ‘lolita’) connotes badness for both sexes, but it is especially demeaning to women."

__Key Words__ Fidelity Pedophilia

__Bibliography__ http://sensesofcinema.com/2000/10/lolita/ New Oxford American Dictionary