Love is Blind
In our lives we all eventually fall in love one day or another. That love can be painful or grateful. Love is not dictated by age, race, sex, and in some cases morals and ethics. Sometimes, love blinds us. Blinded is when you don't see or hear anything besides your own opinion on the situation. Blindness makes us manipulate our ways of thinking, if we do not want to feel hurt, we start thinking that everything is great and everything is going to be all right. We tend to not see the outside world and we start seeing our own imagination in which everything is perfect. This is exactly the type of love both of our main charters, Leo and Humbert, felt in the novels the Go-Between and Lolita; two different main characters, in two different novels but the same “Blind Love”. Love manipulated both charters in two separate but parallel ways. At what point does love fade away and reality takes control of your actions and thoughts? In Leo and Humbert’s cases, reality never sinks in and blind love leads both to their demises.
Sexual relationships were a leading and non-leading factor in both the Go-Between and Lolita. The two depicted sex in very similar but very opposite ways. Love can be driven by a number of things such as wealth, personal gain, the fulfillment of a missing void, or simply a physical attraction. This sexual void was not the key variable in the relationship between Lolita and Humbert. True enough Humbert was physically attracted to Lolita but this is not what motivated him to commit the horrendous acts of child molestation. Humbert’s void of losing his child hood lover was fulfilled once he met Lolita. "It was the same child - the same frail, honey-hued shoulders, the same silky supple bare back, the same chestnut head of hair" (39). The sad and evil truth of the matter is Humbert saw no age once he laid eyes on Lolita but instead he saw love, compassion, youthfulness, and chance to regain a relationship that he once loss....