http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/lolita Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:46:43 -0400 Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:46:43 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/529/gender-and-power-in-vladimir-nabokovs-lolita By Tristan Gans - In Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, the overriding force of the narrator, Humbert Humbert, is his need to prove himself master of everything: other people, his own desires, fate, and language itself. Time and time again through Lolita we see Humbert’s most extreme actions and emotions not as a result of his physical desires but rather his psychological need to win, to possess, and to control. Gender relations are quite simple for him: women are to be possessed, and men should compete for the possession of women. At times Humbert competes to prove his superiority in other ways, for instance tricking... Wed, 18 May 2011 08:05 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/529/gender-and-power-in-vladimir-nabokovs-lolita