Lolita s mother dies at the end of Part 1. I found it interesting that Lolita is not one bit afraid of Humberts Humberts attention. Rather she mentions the word incest and with much relish. She is well aware, even at the tender age of 12, how immoral the relationship is.
Part two begins with the two of them on a journey across the states. I found it bizarre the merging of paternal love with that of being a nymphet lover. Humberts matter of persuasion can be anything from bribing her, threatening her (with the fearful abode), to even confusing her. Humbert is a character of mass contradictions. He claims that he wants to protect Lolita yet he is the biggest danger to her physical self.
Even at the end when Lolita is pregnant with another mans child, Humbert desires her. This situation reminded me of a recent recovery of a victim of pedophilia, named Joyce Dugard. She was impelled to have two children with her abuser. Diane Sawyer did a special on her and was horrified when she calmly stated that her abuser was the father or "Daddy" of her children.
The lack of horror confounded Diane and I truly believe that is what horrifies society about Nabokov. Nabokov had the audacity to use the pedophiles viewpoint and present it to the public. Expectations from society would have been horror, disgust and indignation. The lack of that response from the author might have baffled certain people. The language, of the book, unique as it is in bringing beauty to the tale of pedophilia also backs the theory that not all pedophiles are victims of child abuse.
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