Zusammenfassung der Ressource
First Kisses in Literature
- Lolita-Vladimir Nabakov
- Shared between Lolita and Humbert
- Humbert is aware of what he is doing-he understands that he is breaking the law
- 'As the psychotherapist, as well as the rapist, will tell you'
- Forbidden love
- 'Afraid I might go too far and cause her to start back in
revulsion and terror'
- Set in the car after the death of Lolita's mother
- Extremely uncomfortable for the reader-Lolita is twelve
years old and Humbert is in his thirties
- 'Sweet wetness and trembling fire'
- 'Peppermint taste of her saliva'
- 'I touched her hot, opening lips with the utmost piety, tiny sips, nothing
salacious'
- Unreliable narrator
- 'Lolita positively flowed into my arms'
- Exposes Lolitas innocence and child-like nature
- The Magic Toyshop
- Shared between Melanie and Finn
- Set in the Pleasure Garden
- Despite the location being spacious, Melanie feels
like she can't escape
- She describes the kiss as inevitable
- Finn=animal/gross imagery
- 'He wiped his mouth on the back of his hand'
- 'Raised his black PVC arms and flapped them, cawing like a crow'
- 'Warm breath from his wild beast's mouth'
- The kiss destroys Melanie's original day-dreams of first kisses
- 'Just get it over with'
- 'She imagined that they must have looked quite striking[....] She choked and struggled'
- The characters are positioned either side of a fallen statue of a queen
- Shows separation between them
- The queen represents Melanie's dreams of romance being destroyed
- Male-led scenario; Finn leads the encounter entirely
- Melanie is described as being 'stiff' and trapped
- Romeo and Juliet
- Forbidden love
- Separated by their families hatred for one another
- Passionate and consensual in both people
- 'Let lips do what hands do-they pray'
- 'You kiss by the book'
- Very romantic encounter
- Traditional love
- The encounter takes place at a party/ball
- Neither of them are aware of the other persons identity
- Haidee and Juan in Don Juan
- Lord Byron
- Vivid colours
- 'Spread like a rosy ocean, vast and bright'
- 'And beauty, all concentrating like rays'
- 'They gazed upon the glittering sea below'
- Use of the word 'gazed'-mesmerised by both the sea and each other
- Use of commas in the first stanza to build tension
- 'and, beholding this,'
- 'They heard the waves splash, and the wind so low'
- Pathetic fallacy
- The pace slows after the first stanza
- 'A long, long kiss of youth, and love'
- Repetition of 'long'