Lolita is given great power as a nymphet and it just reinforced this article that I came across on Yahoo the other day. It was about young girls and the pressure they face in the technological society, such as Facebook, to look pretty.
The article actually continued to say how it was all about looking sexy and a lot of teens as well as tweens are fully aware of this. Throughout the novel Lolita is fully aware of how she affects Humbert and she tries to utilize that to get what she wants. For her childhood to consist of that is very horrific. Despite the pros and puns, childhood should not be smeared with sexuality.
Going back to the article that I just mentioned looking pretty for these young girls consist of awkward poses and scanty clothy. Young girls that have not fully developed are showing their cleavages and trying to attract any form of attention. Cyber stalkers are having a field day. My question at this point, would Lolita have been more vulnerable in this high geared technological society versus the fifties?
They are many issues that creep into the mind. I am not saying that technology is bad but its not just all flowery either. The fact that young girls cant go through the awkward phases of childhood is horrible and inadvertently a loss to our society.
There is so much eye candy for pedophiles on the internet. It makes the accessibility of vulnerable children quite easy. There are girls, on Facebook, that don't know who half their friends are and just want to add them because they want the attention.
With this article, there were many comments about the responsibility that parents have to protect their children and make sure that they are appropriate. To blame Facebook for the entire issue would be highly unfair.
I knew kids in high school that would actually drink and be encouraged by their parents. There parents didn't care to implement the drinking age and thought it was fully appropriate for the child to drink or get drunk. Some of my fellow classmates were alcholic as teens.
A lot of disturbing questions and yet no real answer.
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