I think the fate plays an important role with Humbert. We can see it in every part of the novel. And I think the fate always brings Humbert and Lolita together. The first time I realize that when Humbert moves to America, he should stay with Mr. McCoo, he is a relative of a friend of his uncle. However, Mr. McCoo’s house was burned so he recommends to Humbert to see the widow house, Mrs. Charlotte Haze. So, he decides to stay when he sees her daughter, Dolores the twelve-year-old because she reminds him of his first love Annabel. Charlotte tells Humbert that was a lady called Ms. Phalen from Georgia wanted to take Humbert’s room before he came. But she did not because she broke her hip. Moreover, when Charlotte writes a letter to Humbert says …show more content…
He calls it Mcfate. In fact, that Mcfate is the name of Lolita’s classmate and he imagines that control his destiny. He says “I had actually seen the agent of fate. I had palpated the very flesh of fate and its padded shoulder” (Nabokov 103). Humbert decides to take Lolita from camp Q and tell her that her mother sick and she stays in the hospital. He takes Lolita to the Enchanted Hunters hotel where he for the first-time rapes Lolita by giving her sleeping pills. Also, number 342 repeats more than once and its weird. It is the street number of the Haza home and the room number of the Enchanted Hunters hotel. There something also strange for me when Lolita says to Humbert “You Chump” she said, sweetly smiling at me “you revolting creature. I was a daisy-fresh girl, and look what you’ve done to me, I ought to call the police and tell them you raped me. Oh, you dirty, dirty old man.” (Nabokov 141). If that is ok for her! Does she really know that Humbert raped her or she just jokes? Humbert tells her that her mother died when she asks to see her. She cries a lot, he buys toys and clothes for her to make her happy. They stay in another hotel. Humbert says “At the hotel we had separate room, but in the middle of the night she came sobbing into mine, and we made it up very gently. You see she had absolutely nowhere else to go.” (Nabokov 142). Humbert takes Lolita away from everyone she knows and makes power over her thus she always need
Poor choices can cause tragic outcomes. Fate, on the other hand, is beyond someone's control. Many people believe that regardless of their actions, fate and destiny determine the outcome of their lives. However, in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, the outcome of Romeo and Juliet's lives were controlled by the choices that they made. Although the deaths of Romeo and Juliet were mentioned in the prologue of the story as star-crossed lovers, the tragic ending of the couple was determined by their free will as a result of unwise decisions.
“It lies not in our power to love, or hate, for will in us is over-rul'd by fate.” In William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, it is clear that the leading theme is fate, as it is mentioned several times. Shakespeare allows the audience to see everything that happens “behind closed doors.” While some characters’ actions did affect the outcome of the play, fate is the ruling force.
Choices determine every outcome, A better way to put it is “What we do in life, echoes in eternity”, essentially every single decision one makes, no matter how minuscule, will always have an impact in one’s life. Fate isn’t real; Fate is a term commonly used by those that refuse to accept that they control their own future. Teenagers ever since the beginning of time were and still are expected to make poor choices due to their age. But once they learn to take responsibility for their actions, they become adults. Both Romeo and Juliet make multiple decisions, such as marrying, killing and suicide, without stepping back and thinking about the consequences.
The meaning of fate is the development of events beyond a person’s control. If we went by that definition the tragedy is completely character flaw and not fate at all. Romeo, Juliet, their
Fate in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet Before starting to decide to what extent fate was responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, I should first decide what is fate? According to the dictionary, fate is the 'inevitable destiny or necessity destined term of life; doom.' This basically means, that fate can be described as a pre-planned sequence of events influencing ones life. In Romeo and Juliet, it is obviously true to say that fate was a contributor to the deaths of the young couple, but could it have been the sole contributor?
Fate determined the lover’s outcome in more than one instance. Romeo and Juliet’s fate is determined before you even get into the story “A pair of star-crossed lovers take their lives” (Shakespeare 1.1.6). An illiterate servant delivers the guest list for the ball and asks Romeo to read the list, coincidence…probably not (Asimov 480). Towards the end, the Friar sends someone else to deliver the message to Romeo but an infectious pestilence occurs and a quarantine of the city ordered that prevent the message from ever arriving. Also, at the very end the friar arrives two minutes too late to save Romeo from committing suicide (497). No matter how hard anyone might have tried fate would still ultimately win.
The belief in fate is up to the individual considering it, there are many attributes that play a role in the decision on whether or not there is fate, but before you consider it fate, think about your actions. The actions that played a role in this play included Romeo and Juliet’s love at first site at the party and then Romeo deciding to pursue Juliet and to marry her. They were so in love that they decided it would be better to die together than live without each other. Even though they were young it was their actions, not fate, that chose the course of their lives.
During this time, they fall in love with a mountain girl named little seamstress. She is the daughter of the local tailor. Ma and Luo also meet a fellow city kid, nicknamed Four-eyes, he is also being re-educated in a nearby town.
The woman then walked into a house, sat down on a chair, and fall into sleep. Having a close-up of her eyes to show the imagination leads into the dream. At this point, it shows that the woman has already been tempted. In the second repeat, mirror weirdo shows up and takes the flowers on the ground, while the knife is falling down from the bread. This indicates that the desire of sex has been brought out. When the woman sees the mirror weirdo serve no purpose and pulled out the key from mouth, it means that she already starts self-reflecting and consciously asserting her right, which puts in a private place for safekeeping. In the third repetition, a mirror weirdo holds a flower directly into the house and walks up the stairs. The woman follows behind, but a mirror weirdo disappears and leaves the flower on the bedside. The woman’s expression is uncertain this time. In her subconscious mind, she starts distrusting what she had seen. In the last repetition, the
Fate is the power which predetermines inevitable events that are destined by its force. What has destined by fate cannot be changed whether it is love, hatred, or any other part of life. Romeo and Juliet, a play written by William Shakespeare, is based on the tragic love story of two lovers, Romeo and Juliet. All throughout the play, fate fights against their will to live together happily. Love, coincidences, and timing were all factors of fate which doomed the lives of the star crossed lovers.
Fate may state what will be in one's life however, how that destiny comes about is a matter of man's own choice. In other words, incidents don't occur because our destinies are written. In the play Macbeth, Shakespeare expertly uses the theme of fate vs. free will and raises the pre-eminent question of which holds power over the characters. In Shakespeare’s tragedy, fate is not the cause of his downfall, his own desires and choices prove to be the deciding factor.
Some people may not believe that destiny is something that truthfully exists in the world. These people doubt that there is anything that is actually meant to be, or supposed to happen, thinking that there is always a way around troubling predicaments, knowing that it is not necessary to turn out just one certain way. They trust that whatever occurs in their lives comes as a result of the decisions that they make with their own free will. Others believe that whatever happens during the course of their lives is inevitable and every event is laid out before them like a road map to life, in other words, fate. William Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet has fate as an exceptionally crucial element which makes fate as important as any character in the production. The events leading up to and during the party were definitely caused by fate. The moment that Romeo and Juliet meet is the exact incident that leads to their death, however unaware these "star-crossed lovers" are to that fact. Thus, fate is undoubtedly the most responsible influence for the couple's tragedy.
The novel introduces HumbertHumbert, a man with charm and the dignity of being a teacher in Paris. Yet, we instantly find he is a sexually disturbed man, lusting for young, prepubescent girls. His perversions are obvious--we can tell from his journal--and the ideas are highly obsessive with the topic of young girls. His mind is always on his first true love, his young Annabel, who died a short time after his first sexual encounter with her. Humbert says, "I see Annabel in such general terms as: 'honey-colored skin,' 'thin arms,' 'brown bobbed hair,' 'long lashes,' 'big bright mouth' (11). This, in fact, becomes his outline for a nymphet, or a girl between the ages of 9 and 14. One who meets his strict criteria is to become a gem in his eyes, yet treated with the same objectivity as a whore. He considers them all sexual objects for his enjoyment because he is a man who wishes to dominate these girls at such a young age.
The effects of predetermined fate are demonstrated through Romeos foreshadowing, and through his words. It is again a result of predetermined fate that Juliet shows through her speech. Lastly, it is also a result of predetermined fate that flaws Friar Laurence's plan for Romeo and Juliet. Taking into consideration that Romeo and Juliet are predetermined to meet, love, and die together, fate is clearly the dominant force for the
Raped: In this room there is additionally an artwork over the shelf that depicts "Philomel," a reference to an established lady who got raped (demonstrated by the words "rodely constrained") by "the savage lord" Tereus, and who was changed into nightingale(songbird) is an image of filtration through anguish however in modern times, love has deteriorated into lust and there is no trust of recovery.