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On Tragic Fates of Major Characters in Lolita



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Liu Xi, Wu Yi

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DOI:10.17265/2161-6248/2015.11.007

Changchun University, Changchun, China

Vladimir Nabokov was a noted novelist of experimentalism in the 20th century. His representative work Lolita has entered in a list of classics of modern literature and has been regarded as one of the greatest works of the 20th century. With eccentric and surreptitious style, the novel broke the traditional way of narration and the existing models of value as well as the logic and order of the rational world. It overturned the aesthetic principle of creation used in the previous novels so that the traditional value orientation has been eliminated. Lolita depicted the abnormal love between Lolita and her stepfather. This paper mainly discusses the tragic fate of the three main characters, hardships of growth, and self-indulgence which led to the twisted character and it also probes into the historic background and underlying reasons for their tragedies.

tragic fate, desire, bewilderment, darkness