Lolita
Book • 1955 • Drama
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Is someone tortured?
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Moorland
Humbert loved to torture his first wife.
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Abandonment
Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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Dolores’ mother plans to send her to a boarding school long-term. She describes feeling abandoned by Humbert when attending summer camp.
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Abuse
Does the abused become the abuser?
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Is someone gaslighted?
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RowanOakley
Again, Humbert does this constantly.
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Are there abusive parents?
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RowanOakley
Humbert, so very very much.
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Is someone stalked?
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ManyBees
Extensive section of the narrator falling into paranoia as he's followed across the country by a stranger who keeps switching cars
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RowanOakley
On top of raping his stepdaughter, Humbert mentions that he has beaten his wives and girlfriends. It's also strongly implied he killed one of his wives.
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Does an abused person forgive their abuser?
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RowanOakley
Debatable, but in the later end of the book, Humbert offers Dolores a lot of money to come back to live with him. She declines.
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Addiction
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Animal
Are there bugs?
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Flies and gnats
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Assault
Is someone held under water?
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ManyBees
Considered, but character doesn't go through with it. Fantasy of doing so is described in detail.
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Is someone drugged?
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RowanOakley
Humbert drugs Dolores with intention to rape her.
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Is rape mentioned?
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RowanOakley
Again, a major plot element. If rape is a trigger for you, I would not recommend reading this book.
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Is there pedophilia?
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RowanOakley
Quite literally the thing this book is most known for, though contrary to popular belief, this is not a book that advocates pedophilia.
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ManyBees
Aside from one scene where the language is so poetic it's kinda hard to tell what's happening, all rape scenes happen offscreen or are summarized in vague terms
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RowanOakley
A major theme of this book, in fact.
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Bodily Harm
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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A character is missing several fingers
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Children
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Is a minor sexualized?
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ManyBees
By the narrator, the book itself makes it clear how fucked up and wrong this is but it is still intentionally very upsetting and disturbing
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Death
Does someone die?
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RowanOakley
Four characters total.
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Does a major character die?
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RowanOakley
(SPOILERS) Both Dolores and Humbert die.
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Family
Does a parent die?
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Charlotte dies.
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Does someone cheat?
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Anonymous
The narrator’s first wife leaves him after cheating on him with another man.
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Is someone kidnapped?
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RowanOakley
A major plot element.
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Fear
Are there natural bodies of water?
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RowanOakley
A lake is mentioned and figures in the earlier parts of the book. The ocean is also sort of a consistent theme.
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Are there jump scares?
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RowanOakley
This is a book with no pictures, so no.
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Gross
Is there audio gore?
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ManyBees
It's a novel lol
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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ManyBees
Published 1955
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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Cops are portrayed as pretty useless
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LGBTQ+
Is there bisexual cheating?
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ManyBees
Only if you count a victim escaping her abuser as cheating
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Is a trans person depicted predatorily?
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RowanOakley
Humbert jokes about disguising himself as a woman to sneak into a girl's school. He very obviously is not transgender and this thought is never discussed again.
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Medical
Is there a hospital scene?
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Anonymous
Dolores ends up in the hospital due to a fever
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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ManyBees
Fairly brief and kind of glossed over by the narrator
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Mental Health
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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RowanOakley
Not exactly, but Humbert constantly lies, tells half-truths, and distorts the truth.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Noxious
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Paranoia
Is the fourth wall broken?
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RowanOakley
Through the entire book, Humbert talks directly to the reader.
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Pregnancy
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Prejudice
Does an LGBT person die?
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ManyBees
Death of a character who is briefly mentioned to have had sexual experiences with the same gender
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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Humbert jokes about disguising himself as a woman at one point.
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Are there fat jokes?
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ManyBees
Yes but they're made by a pedophile at the expense of his victim so the audience isn't exactly meant to agree with them
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Is there hate speech?
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RowanOakley
Humbert describes some young Native American children as 'hamster-faced' and generally implies they're too ugly for him to be attracted to.
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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No, but the word "Negro" is used. This book was written in the 50s, and this was an accepted term at the time.
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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Aside from the obvious: Dolores’ parents, Humphrey gets together with a woman “two-thirds [his] age,” and the man Dolores ultimately ends up together with.
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Religious
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Sex
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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RowanOakley
Humbert does this constantly, and especially to very young girls. It is incredibly upsetting to read, and was intended that way.
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RowanOakley
The main plot is an incident of incestuous abuse between a man and his stepdaughter. Humbert also mentions that he might like to commit incest with a biological daughter by his stepdaughter.
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Does someone lose their virginity?
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Anonymous
Dolores discloses that she has been experimenting sexually with children her age before doing so with Humbert.
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Is there sexual content?
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RowanOakley
Yes, although contrary to popular belief, there are no explicitly described sex scenes between Humbert and Dolores.
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Social
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
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RowanOakley
(SPOILERS) Both Dolores and Humbert are dead before the book even begins, and Dolores died young in childbirth.
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Vehicular
Is someone hit by a car?
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RowanOakley
Charlotte is struck and killed by a car. It's implied Humbert shoved her in front of it.
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Violence
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