Lolita Responding and Reflecting #3

Another character in the novel that can be analyzed is Lolita. She can be analyzed both through how the relationship is effecting her and how Humbert's views and intentions influence how she is portrayed. If you look at her in the beginning of the novel she seems to be very innocent and caring. Through the novel you can notice that she slowly becomes more and more manipulative and selfish. By the end of the novel she becomes very conning and manipulative. This goes in line with how much their relationship progressed so you can see the correlation in how the abuse in their relationship hurt her mentally and caused her to become the manipulative individual that she became. Also through the novel you can see how Humbert's intentions control how she is portrayed. He makes her seem a lot more sophisticated and manipulative than a 12 year old could be. This is expected since he is trying to seem like the victim in front of the court. This is why you cannot take everything he says as fact, but you can see that he portrays her as becoming more and more manipulative as their relationship progresses which is expected and believable since mental disorders are since to be correlated with being abused as a child.