Lolita Vladimir Nabokov: why will her story always be relevant?

Teenagers strive to grow up as soon as possible, to know the forbidden side of life, but they do not understand that there is a time for everything. The story of Lolita is still relevant today, because the virtual space gives a huge scope for manipulation by adults.

At what point does a young girl lose her innocence? When does she realize that her young body is an object of desire? When she is visited by a pleasant feeling of power over the male world? Or during the first sex? Dolores Haze loses her innocence when she realizes that an adult can use and betray.

Almost a child, she does not realize how treacherous adults can be. Her seduction is a game, she is only 12 years old, she is not mature enough and smart enough to understand the consequences of such games. All she saw as a relationship model was her mother, suffering from loneliness, and then ineptly seducing.

Dolores is full of erotic fantasies, and who isn’t full of them at her age? She wants to appear mature, experienced, perhaps to defeat her mother in this age-old female competition. She plays sex with the man who became her stepfather. And he loses. Because any teenager, no matter how eager he is to seduce an adult, wants to hear “no” with another part of himself.

“You are beautiful, and hundreds of young people will be happy to call you a bride. But it won’t be me (it’ll be some kind of young idiot), ”usually normal adult men, not covered by pathological desires, usually whisper in despair, especially stepfathers or fathers.

The norm of the adult world is a firm “no” to any attempts to seduce a child. And a complete ban on seducing ourselves, creating a dream, a nymphet, a longed-for Lolita from a naive Dolores, justifying her own passion with her diabolical attraction.

The tragedy of Dolores Haze is that she did not manage to grow up normally under the protection of her family. Going through a natural series of teenage frustrations from not being able to immediately get what you want, to know yourself, the world and other people, before the early and, in her case, destructive experience of “adult” life does not completely destroy childhood, well-being and life.

lolita among us

Teenagers’ attempts to quickly get into adulthood, in which they can do anything, is not uncommon. Crossing this invisible boundary, especially supported by seductive adults, cripples the immature psyche of the child. This can, for example, easily happen on the Web.

Virtual space creates the conditions for acting out pathologies, and young girls who grow up in a deficit of adult attention, who read little and know little about how the world works, can easily fall for manipulation and use, mistaking them for genuine interest and love.

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