Nabokov's Lolita
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Americans are in love with the idea of youth. It is a culture that idealizes and idolizes the components of youth, The American ideal of beauty is centered around youth and innocence. When Vladimir Nabokov wrote Lolita he did not set out to write a controversial book about pedophilia, but a book that had it's roots in the firmament of American reality and was about love. Lolita is principally a love story. It is a story about an older man in love with the forbidden, with youth and with the American culture that idealizes that youth. This 5 page paper explores different aspects of the cultural considerations inherent in the love story: Lolita. No additional sources are listed.
Filename: KTlolnab.wps

Pedophilia & the Role of Women in 'Lolita'
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A 10 page paper looking at critical responses toward the integration of the issues of pedophilia and women's social roles in Nabokov's famous novel. The paper asserts that in the nineteen-fifties when the book was written, women were not expected to have an 'equal role' in a sexual relationship, which often caused men to treat them as if they really had been children. Bibliography lists 16 sources.
Filename: Pedowom.wps

Doestoevsky's 'Notes From the Underground' vs. Kafka's 'Metamorphosis'
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A 5 page essay that looks at how the doctor-researcher symbol (representative of tradition and 'state') is treated by Dostoevsky and Kafka in these two works. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: Dostkaf.wps