Sunday, November 4, 2007

Fate is a Friend of H.H.

Does fate have a special relationship with H.H? Or perhaps it allows things to go according to H.H.'s desires just to see what happens in the end? Yes, I do believe fate is tickled silly with this absurd situation that it fancies the end result. "This is hilarious. I wonder how it's going to turn out in the end." I can just imagine fate pondering such a thought. How else is it then, that Charlotte Haze finds out about Lolita and her husband then dies in a proceeding car tragedy? Charlotte Haze's death, leaving H.H. responsible to care for Lolita and abiding to the very core of his desire of being with her. Oh, I know it's just the author's plan of advancing the plot. However the way Nabokov let fate be a dear friend of H.H. so much that he always gets his way without a true struggle, makes readers question. I guess authors have to overlook such things and sacrifice a small essence of reality to situations to get to the real point: telling a story. In return, readers must also overlook such irrelevant details that prevent them from tasting the main themes of a book. An amusing thought comes to mind at this, when readers of Harry Potter complained to J.K. Rowling that in her books she never mentions the characters going to the bathroom. I found this absurd and I loved her response to it: If I had, would that have changed the entire course of the story? This is also seen in Lord of the Flies where readers wrote to Golding and said that's impossible for Piggy's glasses to make fire. Ignore the things that don't matter, people. Just read the story. Sometimes I have to tell myself this too.

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