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We have fun together, don't we? Ay, whenever you want something, I buy it for you automatically. I take you to concerts, to museums, to movies. I do all the housework. Who does the-the tidying up? I do. Who does the cooking? I do. You and I have lots of fun - don't we Lolita?
~ Humbert manipulating Dolores.

Humbert Humbert is the main protagonist of Vladimir Nabokov's controversial 1955 novel Lolita. He is a hebephile who is obsessed with 12-year-old Dolores Haze, whom he nicknames "Lolita".

In the 1962 film adaptation, he is portrayed by the late James Mason, who also portrayed Phillip Vandamm in North by Northwest and Richard Straker in the 1979 TV miniseries adaptation of Salem's Lot.

In the 1997 film adaptation, he is portrayed by Jeremy Irons, who also portrayed Simon Gruber in Die Hard With a Vengeance, Scar in The Lion King, Rodrigo Borgia in The Borgias, Profion in Dungeons & Dragons, Alan Rikkin in Assassin's Creed, John Tuld in Margin Call, and Ozymandias in the HBO series Watchmen.

Biography[]

Humbert is a middle-aged literary scholar who is sexually obsessed with beautiful little girls, whom he calls "nymphets". It is implied that Humbert's hebephilia is the result of his youthful romance with a girl named Annabel, who died before they could consummate their relationship, although it's hard to know for sure considering he still finds himself attracted to some adult women. As an adult, he observes a "look but don't touch" rule in regard to little girls, as he fears going to prison.

He accepts a teaching position in a small New England town and takes a room in a boarding house owned by a middle-aged woman named Charlotte Haze. When he meets her 12-year-old daughter, Dolores, he becomes obsessed with her and nicknames her "Lolita". He gets engaged to Charlotte just so he can be near her daughter. When Charlotte sends Dolores off to summer camp so they can be alone, Humbert is devastated, but is briefly heartened when Dolores gives him a kiss goodbye. Eventually, Charlotte finds Humbert's diary, in which he details his contempt for her and waxes poetic about his lust for Dolores. Horrified, Charlotte runs out of the house and is struck dead by a passing car. Humbert picks Dolores up at her summer camp and takes her to a motel, intending to drug her and rape her in her sleep. When Dolores tells him that she is not a virgin, however, he takes it as a sign that is acceptable to have sex with her. They become lovers and go traveling cross-country together.

They settle in a small town, where Humbert takes a job as a college professor. He sends Dolores to school but is so pathologically jealous of her that he refuses to let her have a life. Eventually, Dolores tires of him and runs off with Clare Quilty, a local playwright. Humbert goes looking for her, but to no avail. Years later, Humbert receives a letter from a now-adult Doloresasking for money. He goes to see her and finds that she is married and pregnant. She tells him that she left Quilty after he tried to make her perform in child pornography, and that she just wants to live a normal life. Humbert finds that he still loves her, even though she is no longer the nymphet of his dreams, so he asks her to run away with him. Even though she rebuffs him, he still gives her the money.

He then goes to see Quilty, intent on killing him. He reads Quilty a poem he wrote accusing him (hypocritically) of destroying Dolores's innocence, and then shoots him dead. He is arrested and later dies in prison after telling the story of his relationship with Dolores to a journalist.

Trivia[]

  • Stanley Kubrick wanted James Mason to play Humbert Humbert, but he turned down because he was starring on Broadway at the time. After Laurence Oliver and David Niven turned down the role, Kubrick offered it to Mason once again, and this time he accepted.
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