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of asking for more pocket money, if Humbert does not give it then she did not want to flirt with him.
4.2.2. Lolita survives with the circumstance of her life
Survive, this is an important word should be kept in mind, because if people do not ever remember this word, perhaps the number of people in this world will become
less and less. Because when people are not able to survive them to resign, give up and eventually die leaving the world with silly. Survive, people have to endure. It should
because if people cannot defend the decisions they make, they will never find how much the true strength. Moral values can be seen because of social forces like obsession, and
possessive A social force is anything within a society that has the capability to bring about
change or encourage someone to bring about or cause change. Social force any effective urge or impulse that leads to social action. Specifically, a social force is a consensus on
the part of a sufficient number of the members of society to bring about social action or social change of some sort. In the plural, the social forces are the typical basic drives, or
motives, which lead to the fundamental types of association and group relationship. Dolores Haze is a beautiful and modern girl, she is twelve years old. In Humbert
eyes she is Lolita, his Annabel and she is a nymphet. Lolita is the second Annabel. She is impolite girl because her mother thinks Lolita is a threat for her life. When her mother
still alive Lolita just be a girl like as usual but after her mother died because an accident
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her life is change. In august, 15
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1947 Humbert picks her up in Q camp and in that day Lolita s life has change. When Humbert picks her up, she doesn t know that her mother
was died. Humbert tells a lie because he wants take Lolita with him. Their first destination is Enchanted Hunter hotel and in that hotel Humbert rapes her. Lolita was
having sex with Humbert three times in Briceland. Lolita wants to call her mother, and finally Humbert tell to her that her mother was died. She is very shock. So she had
absolutely nowhere else to go and Humbert fell he has control of Lolita. Lolita horrible life was beginning. Humbert also takes an advantage of this
opportunity, Humbert always asking her to have sex with Lolita sometimes forcing her. If she refuses it, Humbert was threatening. Lolita cannot do anything because hes an
orphan, Humbert only one who she had. Lolita started acting suspicious, it looks like she is hiding and planning something. Humbert is too suspicious which is the writers looks
as if Humbert has symptoms of schizophrenia, He over control of Lolita. He thinks he can control Lolita again but unconsciously, Lolita begins to revolt from Humbert. In the
second journey, they were followed by a man. Humbert become very watchful. Because of that, Humbert begin to suspect her. He becomes a jealous man and he thinks, there is
a man who will kidnap Lolita. They continue the journey, with Humbert that became very annoying.
In Elphinstone, Lolita fell ill, the doctor said that it is a virus infection and she had to be hospitalized. Unbeknown Humbert, Lo herself has fallen in love with Clare,
author of the drama that had played, the same age as Humbert. Lolita runs away from Humbert. Humbert looking for her like a crazy person, but Lo was not found. Finally
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Lolita succeeds escape from him. She runs away with Clare Quilty, a play writer. But Clare not really Loves her, he just a crazy person. When Lolita doesn t want to do what
Clare said and then he evicts Lolita from his house. Three years later, Lo sent a letter to Humbert, stating that she needed money for
her family. Humbert was driving to Lolita s home. He finds Lo is pregnant and is not like a kid again. Humbert realized that he not only loves Lo as a child twelve years old
but he has falling in love with Lo no matter her age. Humbert cries and begs Lo back to him. Lo politely refuse. Lo is never really loves Humbert, she just handed over her body
but not the liver.
4.2.2.1. Obsession
Obsession is a dreamy achievement that must be owned finally. Obssession is shaped by a condition where a person has a desire for something and will try his best to
fulfill that desire. Psychologically, obssession is a mental process to look at choicess of live available. Since not all choices can be satisfactory, obssession may lead someone
into trouble such as mental disturbance or the like. If the obssession comes true it may make someone get his or her happiness to go on living as the way he or she wants to be.
The obssession as portrayed in the character of Humbert is classified into a bad one. He tends to force his willingness though he knows that it is untrue morally. He
becomes so blind to look at the fact that obssession must be going equally with the values which are hold tightly by people in general. Individualistic obssession is so
contrast to what people have wanted in reality. Thus, obsseession is supposed to be right
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when moral values are inherent to what is obssessed, and is regarded wrong when it is against the social values.
In Humbert s case, his obssession Lolita is o, he over control. He looses his control for himself and it destroys him. Humbert thinks that Lolita is his own obssession
without any limit.. It begins from his childhood love, Annabel. He is very frustrated because Annabel has passed away. He just likes a girl, and calls with nymphet. He does
not attract with adult woman. It can explain in this following quotation. The haze of star, the tingle, the flame, the honeydew,
and the ache remained with me, and that little girl with her seaside limbs and ardent toungue haunted me ever
since- until at last, twenty four years later, I broke her spell by incarnating her in another.
In that statement, he is very obssessive with Annabel; he ever tries to marry with an adult woman but it has failed, he always has a relationship with many girls but he
does not find Annabel s type in those girls. Until twenty four years, when he moves to Ramsedale he meets Dolores Haze. And he thinks Dolores Haze is his second Annabel
or his Lolita. He doesn t want anybody to hurt Lolita. at the end of the story when he knows who has kidnapped Lolita is Clare Quilty; Humbert becomes very angry and
promises to himself to find him and avenge him. His obsession makes him unable to think clearly, and finally he kills Clare.
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4.2.2.2 Possessive
Possessive is a mental behavior of owning something completely without a certain kind of linit. It is a reflection of what has been directed by an individual wishes.
Possessive manner is a manifestation of egoistic or selfish personality. There is no room of freedom for one who has such manner for the other persons. Shortly, possessive
manner is one action of over protection. Lolita is a victim of possesive ambition from a man who is called Humbert.
Humbert seems to think that Lolita is a woman who must be kept in chain. This kind of manner has brought Lolita into a deep trouble because she has no freedom to do what
she thinks right for herself. Humbert has controlled Lolita s life completely with a simple reason that he loves her completely. In this point, the problem of posssessive
manner is the tendency of being rude in manner when things do not run well. The weak will become the target of the strong.
Humbert holds tightly the cultural sense of patriarchy. As a man, he thinks that he is greater than a woman. The patriarchy concept has rooted in his mind culturaly by
positioning woman is weaker than a woman. it can be traced in their love relationship when Humbert treats Lolita as the way he likes. He believes that he is a king in his
existence and Lolita is his servant whatever the consequence is. It happens because the man has been culturally accepted as strong creature from the beginning of history.
As a woman, Lolita is not able to react spontaneously over this kind of cultural inheritance. She can only give respond by showing her disagreement through what she
has done. She expresses her disagreement by showing contradictory action which results
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violence to her physically. Such a bad treatment is continuously done only because of misunderstanding of what a man has done to a woman. a sense of possessive manner has
been wrongly understood practically. With such a simple reason, Humbert overcomes Lolita s freedom through loving her as the way he likes.
Whether or not, the phenomenon of possive manner is a mask of man to control a woman with his own belief in that culture sense. Eventhough, in contrast, a woman can
be possessive too over a man. If it happens that kind of woman will be blamed culturaaly because a woman is suppossed to serve a man. This becomes a conflict for a woman in
general to pursue her freedom over a man. This problematic situation has been experienced by Lolita when she is trapped in her weakness over Humbert s manliness.
I said nothing. I pushed her softness back into the room and went in after her. I ripped her shirt off. I unzipped the
rest of her. I tore off her sandals. Wildly, I pursued the shaddow of her. Infidelity; but the scnt I travelled upon was so slight
as to be practically undistinguishable from a madman s fancy.
The phrase a madman s fancy shows how the effect of possessive manner turns into rudeness which is morally unacceptable. The perspective of being stronger has
wrongly applied in action. Such a deed seems so general for those who beleive in patriarch world where man is born to be a king or man is the owner of the world. This
kind of gap position between man and woman is culturally a long history of the man s life ever recorded.
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It is true that historically, man is the symbol of family who earns the life and woman stays at home to look after the kids. Yet, this demarcacy is only a product of
cultur which is not suitable anymore at this rapidly changing world. The concept of equality has echoed the true sense of humanity where a man is equal with a woman in
front of God s authority. As a fact, cultural sense is much stronger than what should be than what must be done. Still, a woman is becoming the victim of man s partial
understanding over a woman. Humbert s possessive manner towards Lolita has resulted from many causes. He
finds that Lolita is a woman who has no insight of life. Besides, she is uneducated and cannot struggle for herself to make up her own life. She is the victim of social force in
her environment since childhood. The broken home of parents divorce has mad her imbalanced to look deeper on what life is. By having these bitter live background, Lolita
has made her own way to be trapped in her weakness as a woman. by doing so, Hmbert seems to underestimate Lolita in a bad manner of possessive orientation.
Possessiv manner is morally a selfish manifestation over one s life. whatever the reason is everyone has a certain right to determine his or her life. Yet, over owning is an
arrogant behavior that limits the space of running life as the way should be. Lolita has been reluctant to look at this situation. She becomes desparate to know herself as a
woman who has her own to run through. She seems unable to break through the wall of patriarchy concept which has placed that man is always and forever greater than a
woman. In contrast, Lolita s decision to run away from Humbert is a symbol of her winning over Humbert s egoistic manner. Her decision to end the love relationship is a
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symbol of protest that Lolita can go on her life without Humbert. Analogously, Lolita s attitude to destroy Humbert s arrogancy means a freedom of all women over men s
authority towards woman. To say simply, Lolita s final reaction over Humbert by leaving him is a road for a woman to succed her life without a man like Humbert. She
wants to declare that a woman has a right to decide what she thinks right as a man will do.
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CHAPTER 5 CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
5.1. Conclusion