The Lolita Theory, possible connections to Professor Fitz & Professor Montgomery
Considering the girls are now in early 2011, Hanna would've seen Alison as a brunette in early 2009,
long before Alison went missing in September. Spencer does a search on the internet on Vivian
Darkbloom, and the girls learn that it's an anagram for Vladimir Nabokov, the author of the book Lolita
that Hanna had stolen from Alison. Now, here comes the fun part: Ressearching the plot of the book!
Here's the plot!
The novel is prefaced by a fictitious foreword, by John Ray Jr. He was an editor of psychology books. Ray states that he is presenting a memoire written by a man that used the pseudonym Humbert Humber. He had recently died of heart disease while awaiting a murder trial in jail. The memoire begins with Humbert being born in Paris in 1910. He spends his childhood on the French Riviera, where he falls in love with his friend Annabel Leigh. This youthful and physically unfulfilled love is interrupted by the premature death of Annabel. She passed away from typhus, which caused Humbert to become sexually obsessed with a specific type of girl, aged 9 to 14, whom he refers to as nymphets. After graduation, Humbert worked as an English teacher and began editing an academic literary textbook. Before the outbreak of World War ||, Humbert moves to New York. In 1947, he moved to Ramsdale, a small town in New England, where he can calmly continue working on his book. The house that Humbert had intended to live in burnt in a fire. In his search for a new home, he meets a widow, Charlotte Haze. She was accepting tenants. Humberts visits Charlotte often out of politeness and initially intends to decline her offer. However, Charlotte leads Humbert to her garden. Her 12-year-old daughter Dolores (also known as ; Dolly Dolita, Lo, Lola, and Lolita) is sunbathing. Humbert sees in Dolores the perfect nymphet, the embodiment of his old love Annabel, and quickly decides to move in.
The impassioned Humbert constantly searches for discreet forms of fulfilling his sexual urges, usually via physical contact with Dolores. When Dolores is away at summer camp, Humbert receives a letter from Charlotte. She confesses her love for him and gives him an ultimatum - he is to either marry her or move out immediately. Initially terrified, Humbert then begins to see the charm of being the stepfather of Dolores and marries Charlotte for instrumental reasons. Charlotts later discovers the diary that belonged to Humbert. She learns of his desire for her daughter and the disgust Charlotte arouses in him. Shocked and humiliated, Charlotte decides to flee with Dolores and writes letters addressing her friends and warning them of Humbert. Disbelieving the false assurance that the diary that belonged to Humbert is a sketch for a future novel, Charlotte runs out of the house to send the letters, but she collides with a swerving car. Humbert destroys the letters and retrieves Dolores from camp. He claimed her mother had fallen seriously ill and was in the hospital. He then takes her to a high-end hotel that Charlotte had earlier recommended. If Humbert rapes Dolores and tricks her into taking a sedative by sating it is a vitamin, Humbert would feel guilty. As he waits for the pill to take effect, he wanders through the hotel and meets a mysterious man who seems to be aware of the plan Humbert has for Dolores. Humbert excuses himself from the conversation and returns to the hotel room. He discovers that he has been fobbed with a milder drug, as Dolores is merely tired and waked up frequently, drifting in and out of sleep. He dared not touch her that night. In the morning, Dolores reveals to Humbert that she has already lost her virginity. She engaged in sexual activity with an older boy at a different camp a year ago. He begins sexually abusing her. After leaving the hotel, Humbert reveals to Dolores that her mother is dead.
Humbert and Dolores travel across the country, driving all day and staying in motels. Humbert desperately tries to maintain the interest Dolores has for travel and bribes her for sexual favors. They finally settle in Beardsley, a small New England town. Humbert adopts the role of the father and enrolls Dolores in a local private school for girls. Humbert jealousy and strictly controls the social gatherings and forbids Dolores from dating and attending parties. It is only at the instigation of the school headmaster. He regards Humbert as a strict and conservative European parent: he agrees for Dolores to participate in the school play. The title of the play is the same as the hotel in which Humbert met the mysterious man. The day before the premiere of the performance. A quarrel breaks out between Dolores and Humbert, and Dolores runs out of the house. When Humbert finds her a few moments later, she tells him that she wants to leave town and continue traveling. Humbert is initially delighted, but as he traveks, he becomes increasingly suspicious. Humbert feels someone familiar with Dolores is following him. The man following them is Clare Quilty. Quilty is a friend of Charlotte and a famous playwright who wrote the play that Dolores is to partake. In the Colorado mountains, Dolores falls ill. Humbert checks her into a local hospital, from where she is discharged one night by her Uncle. Humbert knows she has no living relatives. He immediately embarks on a frantic search to find Dolores and her abductor but inutially fails. For the next two years, Humbert barely sustains himself in a moderately functional relationship with a young alcoholic named Rita.
Deeply depressed, Humbert unexpectedly receives a letter from a 17-year-old Dolores (signing as Dolly, telling him that she is married, pregnant, and in desperate need of money. Humbert is armed with a pistol and finds Dolores to give her the money. It is an inheritance from her mother. Humbert learns that the husband of Dolores is a deaf mechanic, and he is not her absuctor. Dolores reveals to Humbert that Quilty took her from the hospital, and she is love with him. She gets rejected when she refuses to star in one of his pornographic films. Dolores rejected the request by Humbert for her to leave with him. Humbert goes to the drug addled Quilty mansion and shoots him several times. Shortly afterward, Humbert got arrestes. Humbert reaffirms his love for Dolores. He asks for his memoir withheld from public release until after her death. Dolores dies in childbirth on Christmas Day in 1952, disappointing the Humbert prediction that, Dolly Shiller will probably survive me by many years,
How could this relate to future instances to come in Pretty Little Liars?
There is a character in this book who shares a name with our pretty little villain, Charlotte. Humbert is an english professor, and Dolores is desperate for money. Humbert ended up giving Dolores money. Quilty was into child pornography and rejected Dolores when she turned down feauturing in a pornographic film. The two years time gap is due to Hanna mentioning it. So, this could be hinting at the Alison and Ezra relationship, as well as Byron and Alison. Quilty correlates with The N.A.T Club and Ian Thomas, to be precise. Humbert started a relationship with Charlotte to become closer to Dolores and sexually abused her. We can see that Alison is a victim in some flashbacks. Was Alison sexually abused just like Dolores was? Quilty is a friend of Charlotte, and Jason suspected that Ian was filming the videos for someone else. The mother of Dolores passes away.
So, it is clear that Humbert is Byron and Ezra combined, and Dolores represents Alison. To some degree, Charlotte is Charlotte, but also a minimal representation of Jessica as well. The plot of the book as a whole, instead of sectioning it and picking out parts of it, gives me insight that Ezra and Alison had a previous relationship, but that Ezra worked with Charlotte, but Byron is the one who had an affair with Jessica.
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