Few artistic works that are considered shocking when they are first produced remain shocking for later generations in part no doubt because those later generations have their perceptions of what is shocking and what is normal (or at least permissible) has been transformed by those very works of art. However, Vladimir Nabokovs Lolita, almost a half-century after it was published, does have the power to disconcert us still, if not precisely to shock us. This paper examines the psychological characteristics and sexual behaviors of the two main characters in the novel, Humbert Humbert and Dolores Haze.
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