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Why Is It Possible To Believe In Humbert's Repentance?

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"Lolita" is the confession of a sinner who, consistently, carefully and punctually, it can be said, repents of his sins and at the same time laughed at moralists. Where is his love, where is the border of the character's sincerity? Is it possible to believe in Humbert’s repentance? In the beginning, we see him as a boy-teenager who fell in love with Annabelle Lee, and then a mature man who fell in love with Lolita. After reading the novel, for me, these two remained different characters. Did not merge into one person. The young Humbert remembers: “The spiritual and the physical had been blended in us with a perfection that must remain incomprehensible to the matter-of-fact, crude, standard-brained youngsters of today. Long after her death I felt thoughts floating through mine. Long …show more content…

He realizes that he has an enemy, that he pursues him, he abducts Lolita and thereby breaks Humbert's life. The protagonist does not even know who exactly this enemy is, but he is looking for him, looking for him with meetings, considering a plan for revenge. He hates Quilty, considers him a debauchee, the destroyer of Lolita. Humbert understands that he took away the childhood of the girl, but at the same time he sincerely loved her, cared for her. Lolita herself admits that he was a good father. It turns out that Humbert is building an opposition between his vital values and Quilty. However, killing Quilty, thereby satisfying his revenge. Humbert does not feel relief, he does not make a profit out of it. Moreover, he pays for it his own life. Hence the question: how justified is this act from the point of view of morality? Why does Humbert decide that he has the right to dispose of the life of another person? And at this moment, Humbert the character yields to Humbert the artist, as his double. He

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