Lolita:Dolores Haze's Decoding Of Humbertish Aestheticism

Lolita is the most famous book of Nabokov. His lyrical language embodies the uniqueness of Humbertish aestheticism, which consists of three elements: nymphology, romance, and solipsism. After the clarification of research papers and close reading of Lolita, this paper has found that Humbertish aestheticism is decoded by Dolores Haze. Since Humbertish aestheticism consists of three parts: nymphology, romance and solipsism, this paper is comprised of three chapters, with each of them devoting to the analysis for one element.The first chapter illustrates how Dolores Haze decodes Humbertish nymphology, which consists of incarnation and eternity. Incarnation refers to Humbert's act of incarnating the girls in real world with nymphic beauty, thus providing him with great joy. Dolores's rejection of incarnation is at first by the way of creating the image of “Lolita”, in that it is Dolores Haze who has created “Lolita” instead of Humbert. Dolores's second rejection is by means of destroying “Lolita”, which will be completed by Charlotte's objective judgments and Humbert's gradual realization. Eternity, the other aspect of nymphology, gives Humbert the illusive time conception, which is foreverness and stillness. Dolores's rejection lies in the fact that Lolita can be interpreted as a bildungsroman with the records of Dolores's growth: prepubescent sensitivity, adolescent rebellion and self-conscious flirtation.The second chapter discusses how Dolores decodes Humbert's romance. He regards the pursuit of Lolita as a romance with Dolores Haze as the goddess and himself playing the role of the knight. However, Dolores Haze rejects the identity of goddess with her own vulgarity, deception and herself being the knight. Moreover, she rejects Humbert as a knight with her existence which turns Humbert's platonic love into desire, honest into duplicity and his role as an escort into a destroyer to her. Hence Humbert's romance is completely decoded by Dolores Haze.The third chapter demonstrates how Dolores Haze decodes Humbert's solipsism. As a solipsist, Humbert is obsessed with nymphet fantasy and becomes an absolute narcissist with arrogance. However, Dolores's trauma is a sward to the nymphet fantasy, since both mental and physical trauma will entirely discolor the dreaming beauty of nymphets. Hence she rejects Humbert's nymphet fantasy. What's more, the existence of Dolores Haze gradually wakes Humbert's conscience up, which directly leads to the persecution of his doppelganger Quilty as the symbolic ritual to kill himself, a way to reject Humbert's arrogance and lead to his complete repentance. Yet during the journey to achieve self-redemption, Humbert abandons his narcissism and arrogance, thus his solipsism is decoded by Dolores Haze.Dolores's decoding of Humbertish aestheticism is the further analysis of Lolita, which visualizes and specifies Nabokovian aesthetic bliss: curiosity, kindness, tenderness and ecstasy. The decoding emphasizes the due significance of Dolores Haze, who, for all times, has been silenced, which shows Nabokov's great concern and sympathy for person in disadvantageous situation, making Lolita glitter with the warmth of humanity.