Nabokov’s Lolita touches upon the theme of sexual prohibition, the sexual inviolability of girls of a certain age. Lolita is an assertion of the power of spirit of love, but not as a natural, pure feeling. It is love that goes beyond control and regulation, love that in one way or another leads into the destruction of many human beings. This wild, strong passion imprisons the protagonist and flies beyond the established norms of …showed first 75 words of 2715 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2715 total…is the difference between reality and art. Where we share the predicament of Nabokov and Humbert is the moment when we can be miserable about the moral consequences of our desires - but we follow them anyway. So Lolita tests our morality through a pariah. Humbert is a man who can not relinquish his most basic desires in order to join the moral world. Yet those desires seem fit to earn him our heartless condemnation.