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reading lolita for the first time and im mostly shocked at how blatant it is that humbert humbert is a pedophile. dont misunderstand, i knew exactly the plot of lolita before reading lolita, however, considering a good 85-95% of the world's population seems to think that it's a romance story, and with the knowledge that HH is an unreliable narrator, i thought the pedophilia in lolita might have been easy to miss. maybe under layers of subtext you could easily glide over if you were passively reading instead of critically analysing.
but no! humber humbert, even when doing his very best to convince you otherwise, is very clearly and very deliberately a self-centered, egotistical, misogynistic, pretentious, cowardly predator, in his own goddamn words. even if you 100% take his word for everything that happens -- that delores invited his attraction, that charlotte haze was killed in a freak car accident, that all of these women were falling and fawning over him, etc., -- all of those traits still remain to be true, as told by his own hand.
you have to be one of two things to think lolita is a love story, and i hope it's that you're lazy and didn't read the book.
#charlie.txt#lolita#lolita vladimir nabokov#vladimir nabokov#(last sentence is for impact i dont actually think youre lazy if you dont want to read a book abt a pedophile)#(but if youre going to have strong opinions on lolita that comes with at least familiarising yourself with the plot)
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Hades and Persephone.Dolores and Humbert.Little Red Riding Hood and The Big Bad Wolf.Alina and The Darkling.Sarah and Jareth.Orihime and Ulquiorra.Mina and Dracula.Cathy and Chris Jr.Every time,no exceptions unless it's to hate on her instead,you fucking geeks take sa narratives about how men are monsters for their systematic abuse of younger women and potraying the girls as tragic heroines and turn them into 'but what if she wanted it?if she really hated him,she must've known better so that means she did and he's actually the hero for teaching her to be a real woman'.And then you have audacity to complain about there supposedly being no strong female characters who're also victims.You won't LET them be victims,you're always too focused on turning their male abusers into 'female fantasies' and screaming your head off at black women,autistic women and trans women for being 'weird and chronically online'
#misogyny cw#pedophillia cw#grooming cw#sa cw#incest cw#child molestation cw#persephone#persephone tag#antihadesephone#dolores haze#little red riding hood#alina starkov#anti darkling#sarah williams#orihime inoue#mina harker#cathy dollanganger#greek mythos#hades slander#lolita vladimir nabokov#antiulquihime#antidarklina#six of crows#labyrinth#labyrinth 1986#bleach#dracula#dracula 1897#flowers in the attic#summerposting
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if i hear another boy tell me that they relate to humbert because he's 'misunderstood' i swear to god i will become jennifer check
#lolita#lolita book#lolita vladimir nabokov#vladimir nabokov#humbert humbert#ew#like bruh how can you not UNDERSTAND#it's written there RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU#DO YOU HAVE EYES???#jennifer check#jennifers body
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Something I feel Very Strongly about is the misinterpretation of Lolita, especially Visually. I think it started about 3rd edition, or recently after the first interaction of film came out. Beyond the disaster of producing, it started a flattening of the book and message... The heart shaped glasses and seductive lollipop ("loli-pop" *gags*) just defeats any argue against the harmful nature of what Lolita has groen to. Not a terrifying look into what someone says to justify the worst, but the demonization of the victim.
Anyway, I painted over my copy in a way that I feel doesn't glorify
It's something but a silent protest even still
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reading the book right now & i love 💋
#lolita1997#lolita vladimir nabokov#dolores haze#literature#films#girly#girlblogging#just girly posts#daddy issues#oldermen#thought daughter#coquette#lolita fashion
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Reading Lolita is infuriating enough (obviously) but it's so annoying to have to, every four pages, read about HH bitching about "I take advantage of teenage prostitutes, I hate women and fantasize about raping 12 year old girls........but I'm the oppressed one because society won't let me get away with it 🥺"
#'maybe im a rapist but youre the bad guy because youre mean to me about it 🥺🥺🥺'#I FUCKING HATE THIS MAN#lolita novel#lolita book#humbert humbert#lolita vladimir nabokov#lolita
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if there was a most insufferably despicable narrator award it would go to nabokov's humbert humbert
#the fucking rage i feel#the sheer audacity#vladmir nabokov#lolita book#lolita novel#lolita vladimir nabokov
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finished lolita. ough.
#dolores is just. so interesting. i hope shes happy forever#lots to chew on here#humbert is also interesting (i hate him) what a sick wet freak of a man (/very very negative)#killing him with bricks#lolita book#lolita vladimir nabokov
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Today on horrible remarks from adults I know:
My history & politics teacher calling 'Lolita' by Vladimir Nobakov a "Love story" unironically
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finished lolita yesterday. what a disturbing, disgusting, and yet great novel. it’s been some time since a book has left me feeling this hollow.
#book recs#books#book aesthetic#lolita vladimir nabokov#vladimir nabokov#lolita#litearture#classic literature
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Also I am currently reading Lolita, is anyone interested in my very angry character Analysis of Humbert or... should I shut the fuck up?
#caktusjuice babbles#lolita vladimir nabokov#lolita novel#tw csa mention#tw csa#Like I hate humbert so fucking much#I could psychoanalyze this fucker till the cows came home and then still have enough energy to shit talk his sorry ass
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writing a sequel to lolita- not because there is any conceivable way you could effectively write a continuation of the events of the story, but solely to give it the title LMAOlita
#you can say this is dumb#and yeah im just shitposting but like-#cmon its no dumber than those revisionist books that write from Lo's perspective#not... the worst notion in theory but has NEVER been done well :/#vladimir nabokov#lolita vladimir nabokov
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#lolita#lolita vladimir nabokov#lolita book#guess who finally got a copy!!!!#gonna write FUCK YOU in cursive in the margins 🤪
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Still fucking fuming over what pedo creeps did to lolita, if theres one thing abusers are gonna do its totally buy into the worldview of an unreliable narrator
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men liking the film American Beauty is the filmbro equivalent of men liking Lolita (they’re pedos)
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