Carleigh Craparo 12.3.12 English Lolita can be described as a controversial book that can draw the readers in and cause them to feel sympathetic towards a man who is a murderer‚ pedophile‚ predator‚ and an egomaniac. The author‚ Vladimir Nabokov‚ seduced the readers’ minds’ with numerous elements about Humbert to distract them from his true evil tendencies. Humbert is the main character of Lolita and describes his life story from an American jail cell. He begins to describe his childhood and
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Vladimir Lenin Vladimir Ilich Lenin was born on May 4‚ 1870. In school‚ he was very bright‚ and enjoyed reading and writings of Goethe and Turgenev. Lenin’s father died of a cerebral hemorrhage and his brother was hung for plotting to assassinate Tsar Alexander III. Lenin was finally accepted to the Kazan University where he studied law. He was expelled‚ and later studied law on his own and passed the exam in first in a class of 124 people in 1891. In 1895‚ Lenin traveled to Switzerland
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autocracy route; which means that Putin is put in complete power over Russia. To some people this a fabulous thing but to others it is just scary. After the fall of communism‚ the economy in Russia fell way behind most countries. It was thought that going to democracy would change the country for the better but they were oh so wrong. To completely destroy communism in their country they would have to get rid of everything it has affected and start all over. Putin has always been involved politically
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Lenin was the leader of the Bolshevik (meaning Majority) faction of the Russian Social and Democratic Labour Party and took power in the October Revolution of 1917. He was born in the city of Simbirsk in 1870 and studied Law at Kazan ’ university‚ where he was introduced to Marxist literature. His brother Alexandr was involved in a plot to assassinate Tsar Alexandr III and executed. He spent some time in internal exile in Siberia before being exiled from Russia. It was in London that he formed
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because he was the first to openly say the Soviet Union was an “evil empire” that must be defeated. However‚ in today’s Russia‚ a high percent of Russians regret the Soviet Union collapse which was so relentlessly pursued by the United States. Mr. Putin has called the empire’s break-up “A national tragedy of enormous scale.” This conflict made Mr. Reagan’s Presidency controversial‚ some saw him as a hero while others saw him as a zealot wanting all the power. People can be seen as a hero to some and
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showing what the world would be like if he had not been there. If Vladimir Lenin had not been born‚ there would be no Cold War‚ no Soviet Union and Russia might still be ruled by a Tsar. However‚ Lenin was not simply a catalyst in the many changes Russia faced; he was a most volatile reactant in the chemistry of Russian and world politics. Breaking the barrier between attaining both economic success and political achievement‚ Vladimir Lenin almost singlehandedly ended the Tsardom and brought the socialist
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President Obama and President Putin are great examples of leaders who have different views on how to run a country. Both Obama and Putin are Presidents who are in charge of controlling the military‚ vetoing legislative bills‚ and appointing their Cabinet. In both cases Presidents Obama and Putin seek the assistance of their cabinets to support them on their opinions on how to run their country. Similarly‚ Obama and Putin choose to fill their cabinet with close friends who all think congruously.
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The narration In Vladimir Nobakov’s Lolita‚ seeks to compel the reader’s opinion of Humbert Humbert through its use of rhetoric to rationalize and romanticize Humbert’s wrong doings throughout the book. With Nabokov’s decision of letting Humbert narrate his and Lo’s despicable story‚ He’s able to draw attention to his own demise rather than Dolores’s which allows the readers to witness the vulnerable side of the antagonist. His failure to participate in normal relationships gains him sympathy as
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The Mastermind Artist and Poet After reading Vladimir Nabokov’s narrative‚ Lolita‚ most readers find themselves unwittingly accepting and even sharing the feelings of Humbert Humbert. Of course‚ the feelings they share are not those of becoming like Humbert but rather absentmindedly pitying and sympathizing with him‚ which are unusual outcomes felt towards a psychopath. As Mathew Winston‚ a critic‚ once stated‚ the novel “plays a very serious game with the relations between a work of art‚ the experiences
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“Lolita‚ light of my life‚ fire of my loins. My sin‚ my soul” The opening lines of ‘Lolita’ directly initiate the reader into the essence of Nabokov’s bewildering novel where an obviously pedophilic protagonist Humbert Humbert narrates his undying love/lust for the questionably innocent twelve year old Dolores Haze‚ better known as Lolita. Humbert‚ in his extravagant and flowery description of Lolita‚ implies the word "nymphet"‚ a term invented by Humbert himself and introduced to the English language
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