Professor Lee Quinby – Macaulay Honors College – Spring 2010

Posts Tagged: coercion


Posts Tagged ‘coercion’

Power and Coercion in “Lolita”

Power and Coercion in Lolita Part 2 of Lolita was heavy on the power relations, particularly between HH and Lo.  Throughout their cross-country travels and stay at Beardsley, HH is impossibly controlling.  To keep her as subdued as he can, Humbert uses the adult-child power dynamic to threaten Lo and holds money and other material […]