Lolita: Morality

    The morality in Lolita can be discussed and viewed in several ways.  I think that the narrator of the story starts with some disturbing imagery and words that our society  wouldn't be pleased to hear at all.  The narrator is very clear and distinct in the ways of expressing his love for young girls and doesn't try to hide this from the reader either.  The only ones he's hiding from is the unsuspecting adults of this story, in which he skillfully attracts the young girl of a woman he marries.  He has no shame or what our society would call a normal thought process saying that this situation was full of wrongs that he shouldn't have ever committed.  Cheating on a woman with a child is an embarrassment and a shameful act in itself but he doesn't give it a second thought it seems.  The morals would fall weak even if Lolita was of an older age because he is cheating and deceiving others to have what he wants.  In his pondering about young girls, he comes to call them “nymphets.” He's distressed that “she would not be forever Lolita” and one day “cease being a nymphet.” (pg 15)  This leads him to  say how he'd give up on the girl once she reaches the age of a young girl, saying that their innocence and the like would be gone from him.  He also mourns over not seeing his Lolita for two months because her time as a lolita would come to an end in a short amount of time.  Every instant counted for him to be with his Lolita.  The book in quick defining what the story will be all about and how Humbert's obsession will fascinate the reader with fanciful words but also disgust them at the realization that he's talking about a 12 year old girl.  He also had a peculiar and annoying way of always talking about himself as a high and mighty person.  He'd say how handsome or wonderful he was along with his lines and proceed to do this in a fashion of talking in third person.  It shows how he was a bit narcissistic and obsessed with himself.  Even Lolita's attitude and morality is shaken.  She at one moment kissed Humbert but when he kissed her on the neck at a later point, she wipes t away in disgust.  Lolita comprehends what Humbert is doing and yet doesn't in a sense.  Her morality is low to have let this happen and to also play along with what Humbert wants.  This could also be taken into account that she's a child trying to be a woman in which she has not become yet.  She goes as far as to say that Humbert is a “dirty, dirty old man” presenting that she knows that what they've done together isn't acceptable. (pg 32)  In realizing that both of the main characters come to know of how immoral their relationship is, they continue on with it.  Morals in their mind are thrown out, except for the gnawing fact that someone could find out about them.