AN ANALYSIS OF MORAL VALUES THROUGH MAIN CHARACTER IN
VLADIMIR NABOKOV SLOLITA
A THESIS
BY:
YAUMIL RIZKI ADINDA REG.NO.090705055
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
AN ANALYSIS OF MORAL VALUES THROUGH MAIN CHARACTERS IN
VLADIMIR NABOKOV SLOLITA
A THESIS BY:
YAUMIL RIZKI ADINDA REG. NO. : 090705055
SUPERVISOR CO-SUPERVISOR
Drs. Parlindungan Purba, M.Hum Dra. Diah Rahayu Pratama, M.Pd NIP. 19630216 198903 1 003 NIP. 1956 1214 198601 2001
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WLEDGEMENTS
Bismillahirrahmanirrahim
Alhamdulillahi rabbil alamin, all praise to Allah SWT that has given me his blessing, love, opportunity, health, and mercy to complete this thesis. Shalawat and Salam with our prophet Muhammad SAW let peace upon him who has guided us from the darkness to the enlightment in the world as well as in the next world.
I would like to thank to Dr.H.Syahron Lubis as the dean of faculty Cultural Studies, University of Sumatera Utara. Also, I would like to thank to Dr.H.Muhizar Muchtar, M.S as the head of Department of English, the secretary of Department of English, Dr.Hj.Nurlela, M.Hum. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my supervisor Drs. Parlindungan Purba, M.Hum and my co-supervisor Dra. Diah Rahayu Pratama. Thank you for the patience and motivation to guidance me to write and to finish the thesis.
My special thank is dedicated to my bestfriends Muhammad Savrizal who support me in everything that I ve done, thank you for everything mate! Thank you for every craziness things that we spend together for, Ade, Cille, Rini, Arief, Yuda, and Bayu Surya Pratama. They are always coloring my day.
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At last, I really realize that my thesis is still far from being perfect so all the critics and suggestion hopefully can make the analysis better for the future.
My Allah SWT blesses all of us.
Medan, 20 Desember 2013
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ABSTRAK
Skripsi ini berjudul An Analysis Of Moral Values Through Main Characters In Vladimir Nabokov s Lolita, pembahasan pada skripsi ini menfokuskan pada analysis mengenai nilai-nilai moral pada tokoh utama yang ada pada novel berjudulLOLITA yang ditulis oleh Vladimir Nabokov. Nilai moral merupakan nilai yang dipakai oleh masyarakat dalam bentuk norma atau aturan. Interaksi yang terjadi di masyarakat menggambarkan keanekaragaman perilaku. Baik buruknya tingkah laku seseorang disebut sebagai nilai moral.
Penulis mengumoulkan dan menyeleksi kutipan kutipan yang beraal dari novel tersebut yang mana berhubungan dengan nilai nilai moral yang disampaikan melalui tokoh utama pada novel tersebut. Dalam menganalisis penulis menggunakan pendekatan ekstrinsik dan intrinsic juga memakai metode deskriptif kualitatif analisis untuk
melengkapi kajian tersebut.
Permasalahan yang akan diangkat adalah analisis mengenai nilai nilai moral yang disampaikan pada tokoh utama cerita dalam novelLOLITAyang ditulis oleh Vladimir Nabokov. Analisis moral melalui beberapa karakter utama menyangkut kepada tingkah laku manusia sebagaimana digambarkan dalam novelLOLITAini untuk
TABLE OF CONTENT
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT i
AUTHOR S DECLARATION ii
COPYRIGHT DECLARATION iv
ABSTRACT v
TABLE OF CONTENT vi
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 Background of the Study 1
1.2 Problems of the Study 4
1.3Objective of the Study 4
1.4 Scope of the Study 4
1.5. Significance of the Study 5
CHAPTER 2: REVIEW OF LITERATURE 6
2.1 Character 6
2.1.1 Major Character 7
2.1.3 Flat Character 8
2.1.4 Round Character 8
2.1.5 Static Character 9
2.1.6 Dynamic Character 9
2.1.7 Confidant 9
2.1.8 Foil 10
2.2 Novel 10
2.2.1 Elements of Novel 11
2.3 Moral, Values, Moral Values 17
2.3.1 Moral 17
2.3.2 Values 18
2.3.3 Moral Values 18
CHAPTER 4: ANALYSIS AND FINDING 24
4.1 The Main Characters 24
4.2 The Analysis of Moral Values through Main
Characters In Vladimir Nabokov sLOLITA 27
4.2.1 Lolita is Treated Morally Bad by Humbert 27
4.2.1.1 Rudeness 27
4.2.1.2 Rape 30
4.2.2 Lolita Survives with The Circumstances of Her Life 33
4.2.2.1 Obsession 35
4.2.2.1 Possessive 37
CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION 41
5.1 Conclusion 41
5.2 Suggestion 43
REFERENCES 44
APPENDICES
I . BIOGRAPHY OF VLADIMIR NABOKOV
ABSTRAK
Skripsi ini berjudul An Analysis Of Moral Values Through Main Characters In Vladimir Nabokov s Lolita, pembahasan pada skripsi ini menfokuskan pada analysis mengenai nilai-nilai moral pada tokoh utama yang ada pada novel berjudulLOLITA yang ditulis oleh Vladimir Nabokov. Nilai moral merupakan nilai yang dipakai oleh masyarakat dalam bentuk norma atau aturan. Interaksi yang terjadi di masyarakat menggambarkan keanekaragaman perilaku. Baik buruknya tingkah laku seseorang disebut sebagai nilai moral.
Penulis mengumoulkan dan menyeleksi kutipan kutipan yang beraal dari novel tersebut yang mana berhubungan dengan nilai nilai moral yang disampaikan melalui tokoh utama pada novel tersebut. Dalam menganalisis penulis menggunakan pendekatan ekstrinsik dan intrinsic juga memakai metode deskriptif kualitatif analisis untuk
melengkapi kajian tersebut.
Permasalahan yang akan diangkat adalah analisis mengenai nilai nilai moral yang disampaikan pada tokoh utama cerita dalam novelLOLITAyang ditulis oleh Vladimir Nabokov. Analisis moral melalui beberapa karakter utama menyangkut kepada tingkah laku manusia sebagaimana digambarkan dalam novelLOLITAini untuk
takaran/ukuran normative. Ukuran tersebut mengacu pada benar salah dan baik buruknya perilaku manusia sebagai anggota masyarakat. Moral merupakan cerminan tingkah laku manusia dalam hidup bermasyarakat,
kground of The Study
Literature refers to the imaginative works make and read by people. Literature
created by writers to be enjoyed, understood, and utilized by the community. Literature
presents a picture of society, between society and people, and between the events that
occur in one's mind. So writers themselves are members of the community, and he is
bound by a certain social status and the literary work is the reflection of one's
relationship with others or by society (Darmono, 1977:1). Literature can make members
people aware of the various problems that have occurred in society, for example,
education, morality, political, social, and cultural.
According to Wellek and warren (1965:15) literature is the art of written works.
Because literature uses typical language literature which is different with colloquial
language or the language of science. Literature has a dual function, that is entertaining
and at the same time benefit readers. Literature entertaining by presenting the beauty,
give meaning to life (death, misery, and excitement) and the means to convey the
message about the truth, about what is good and bad. So we can get the touch of our life
One of literary work which will be discussed in this thesis is novel. Novel (latin:
novella, new things) is an extended work of prose fiction, longer than a short story or a
medium-length fiction, called a novelette or novella. It is written in prose and so
distinguished from a long fictional tale in verse. Novel is concerned with ordinary
people and their problems in the societies in which they find themselves. Novel presents
a documentary picture of life too. There are some aspects focuses in novel; there are
character, setting, plot, point of view, theme, and style.
On this novel, the writer focuses on character. Character is one of an important
element in novel. Character in the novel is conventionally discussed in terms of
exposition, dialog and character is a person who acts in the story. Character can also be,
in Forster s words, either flat or one dimensional, having a simple function, or round,
with complexity built up through multiple layers of description and action. In the novel
from the character, people can get moral values that can see in characters attitude and
behavior from its setting and plot. Bad or good moral in character, there are moral
standard form some rules which acceptable in society.
Moral values are things held to be right or wrong or desirable or undesirable.
Moral values form a subset of the set of all values, and a value simply consists of the
things (abstract or concrete) that some people. Moral values are generally shared values.
If people did not have values in common, it would be exceedingly difficult to agree on
any one course of action. But since there is often disagreement as to what is the right
thing to do in any situation, people can see that in fact, various values are shared to a
greater or lesser extent. On some values there will be nearly unanimous agreement. On
and wrong of everyone who has standardization of behavior suitable and approved by
the accepted norms within the social life.
In this thesis the writer would like to analyze about moral values through the
main character in by Vladimir Nabokov. This thesis has been choosen by the writer because in the experience in reading this novel, the writer finds many moral
values which can teach everyone with the main characters experiences and the relation
moral character with the real life. This thesis, the writer uses descriptive qualitative
method with uses intrinsic and extrinsic approach. This story tells about the experience
of Humbert Humbert who just likes to relate sexually with a girl who was 12 years old
due to his failure with his childhood love. In this novel tries to tell us how frustrations
Humbert Humbert because of his failure childhood love make he could not continue to
live. For him, his childhood love is the beginning of all things that he experienced
throughout his life and finally he fined his Lolita. The girl is a stepdaughter named
Dolores Haze (Lolita). The main character of this novel is Humbert Humbert and
Dolores Haze. The analyzing of moral values that can be drawn from Humbert Humbert
and Dolores Haze and then to identify the bad and good moral that conveyed by the
writer. This is the background as well as the reason why writer chooses focus to analyze
1.2 Problem of the Study
There are some problems from background of the analysis above, the problems
of the analysis in this thesis are:
1. How is Lolita treated morally bad by Humbert?
2. How is Lolita surviving morally the circumstance of her life?
1.3 Objective of the Study
The objective of the study in this analyze are:
1. To analyze Humbert s behavior to Lolita: immorally.
2. To analyze how does Lolita Survive with the circumstances of her life.
1.4 Scope of the Study
The scope of the analysis is only including about the moral values found from
Humbert and Lolita as the main characters in Vladimir Nabokov s ! "#The scope of analysis is focuses to the main character; those are Humbert Humbert and Dolores Haze
(Lolita). This analysis starts from Humbert s ill treatment who raped his stepdaughter
that ended with Lolita escape from his stepfather. This is focus to the moral values like
raped, rudeness, social force; obsession, and possessive. This thesis is focus to the
problem of the analysis of moral values to some certain problems, so that the analysis is
1.5 Significance of the Study
Theoretically, this thesis is expected to expand knowledge about literary work, In
addition, this thesis useful in the development of quality and learning outcomes.
Practically, Thesis by the author is one of the requirements to obtain a bachelor
degree majoring in English department at Faculty of Cultural Sciences, University of
Sumatera Utara. And this thesis can be used as reading material comparisons with other
studies that have been there before in analyzing moral values. And also can be used for
CHAPTER 2
REVIEW OF LITERATURE
2.1 Character
Character is one of important elements of literary work. Character is an actor
who takes on events so that the event can be a story; Character is the figure contained in
the literature that has personality, values, moral and mental. Character in general is a
human but can also form the desired animal or objects are created as living things, it
means, the characters must live it naturally has an element of thought or feeling that can
form the basis of fictitious characters convincing that readers feel as if dealing with a
real human. Character is the representative and the description of person qualities in the
real life. Therefore, although the character in literary works is fictitious, they have
personal qualities as the real person because the authors of the novel are member of
society and they write a literary work based on the real person in the real life. Roberts
and Jacobs states (1955:31) that,
In fiction, a character may be defined as a verbal representation of human being. Through action, speech, description, and commentary, authors portray characters who worth caring about, rooting for, and even loving, although there are also characters you may laugh at, dislike or even hate.
A character has a strategic position as a carrier and delivery of messages, the
message, moral or anything intentionally to convey to the reader. A story is usually
concerned with a major problem that a character must face. In generally, characters are
2.1.1 Major Character
Major character is kind of character, which often shows up repeatedly as if it
dominates every parts of the event in the novel. They can act as a subject that has
capability in doing something or as an object that suffers the impact from treatment done
by the subject or circumstances. In the other words, major character does not only act as
subject but also as object. This kind of character plays important role in the novel and it
cannot be ignored. In this novel have major character; there are Humbert Humbert and
Lolita.
2.1.2 Minor Character
A minor character is someone with a lot of parts and important to the story, but
not fully needed and still interact with or grab the attention of those main characters.
They might help to explain what is going on by talking to other characters and supports
the main character in a story. They do no grow or change during the story. Would
usually be a good friend or enemy of the main character. In this novel have minor
character: Gaston Godin, Ms. Phalen, and Miss Prat, Annabel Leigh, Valeria, Charlie
Holmes, Ms. Opposite, Madeleine, and The Mc. Coo s, Charlotte Haze, Mona Dahl,
2.1.3 Flat Character
Flat characters have few but easily recognizable traits that make them
stereotypical characters. In short, there are not many facets to this character's personality
that are revealed to the reader.According to Roberts and Jacobs (1995),
Flat character is a character with a very simple personality. Flat characters do not grow. They remain the same because they may be stupid or insensitive or lacking in knowledge or insight. They end where they begin and are static, not dynamic. But characters are not therefore worthless, for they usually highlight the development of the round characters.
Stock Character Often assumed to be a flat character, a stock character is actually
one who represents stereotypical personality traits which may root from culture,
appearance, or situations. Such characters are very easy to identify. In this novel have
flat characters; there are: Gaston Godin, Ms. Phalen, and Miss Prat.
2.1.4 Round Character
A round character is someone who has more facets to her/his personality than a
flat character. This is a character that develops through the story and therefore, her/his
qualities are difficult to identify completely, right up to the end. The personality of such
a character is not consistent, which makes the character more realistic than others in the
piece of writing.Roberts and Jacobs (1995) states,
Because round characters usually play a major role in a story, they are often called the
hero or heroine. In this novel have round character; there is Humbert Humbert
2.1.5. Static Character
A static character's personality does not change throughout the piece of work,
and save for the initial introduction; there is not much to learn about such a character.
Static characters as we notice that their personalities are consistent and do not change;
nor does our knowledge of these characters increase throughout.In this novel have static
characters; there are: Annabel Leigh, Valeria, Charlie Holmes, Ms. Opposite,
Madeleine, and The Mc. Coo s.
2.1.6. Dynamic Character
A dynamic character is someone whose personality changes through the course
of writing, due to a change in the situation or the plot. This may be from weak to strong,
from strong to weak, from a cheery person to a person in distress, and the like. While
one would assume that a dynamic personality would be the protagonist, it is not always
necessary.In this novel have dynamic character; there is Lolita.
2.1.8. Foil
The foil is someone who is used as a contrasting character to enhance the personality
of another character. A character who serves to point out the strength or weakness of the
protagonist; usually foil has the Opposite characters traits of the protagonist and often
(but not always) is called antagonist. . In this novel have foil characters; there are Clare
Quilty and Barbara Duke.
2.2. Novel
There are many kinds of literary works, likeessays, poems, novels, short stories,
drama, and novel is the most read by the readers. The novel is a literary form most
popular in the world. This literary form most widely circulated, because of the extensive
communication in society. Novel is one form of a literary work. Novel is a fictional
story in writing or words and has the intrinsic and extrinsic elements. A novel is usually
told about human life in their interaction with the environment and each other. In a
novel, the author makes every effort to direct the reader to the reality of life images
through the stories contained in the novel. A novel main requirement is taken it must
attract, entertain and bring a sense of satisfaction after the finished reading it. Reading a
Many writers give a definition to novel. Boundaries or definitions that they give
are different because they use different viewpoints too. The definitions are:
1. The novel is the most popular form of literature in the world. This literary form
most widely published and most widely circulated, because the community is
widespread in society (Jakob Sumardjo Drs).
2. The novel is a literary form in which there are social cultural values, morals, and
education (Dr. Nurhadi, Dr. Dawud, Dra. Yuni Pratama, M Ed, Dra. Abdul Roni,
M. Pd).
3. The novel is a work of literature that has two elements, namely: intrinsic and
extrinsic elements are related because both are very influential in the presence of
a literary work (Drs. Rostamaji, M Ed, Agus Priantoro, S. Pd).
4. The novel is a prose literary works that have intrinsic elements (Paul Tukam,
S.Pd).
2.2.1. Elements of Novel
Novel has two elements; there are intrinsic and extrinsic elements. The writer
will explain about those elements.
1. Intrinsic elements
An Intrinsic element is a builder element of literature that can be found in the
literary text itself. There are intrinsic elements in novel. There are:
whole story. Theme in many ways is "binding" the presence or absence of
events, conflicts and circumstances, including the various other intrinsic
elements.
2. Plot
Plot is a series of events in the novel. Plot is divided into 2 parts; the plot
forward (progressive) is if the event is gradually moving towards the
chronological order of the story line. While the backward flow (flash back
progressive) is going to do with the ongoing events (Paul Tukan, S.Pd).
3. Character
Character is an actor who takes on events so that the event can be a story;
Character is the figure contained in the literature that has personality, values,
moral and mental. Character in a story should be described clearly. So what is
people says, what is people do, what people thinks, and what is perceived must
be truly describing the nature of the characters.
The main characters in the novel Lolita are as follows:
Humbert Humbert: He is white, handsome, educated man but Humbert
has a pedophile character, nomad, and tend to schizophrenia and paranoia
too.
4. Point of View
Point of View is the narrative point of view, how the story is told
more specifically, who tells it. There are two distinctly different types of point of
view and each of those two types has two variations.
o In the First Person point of view, the story is told by a character within
the story, a character using the first person pronoun, I . If the narrator is
the main character, the point of view is first person protagonist. If the
narrator is a secondary character, the point of view is first person
observer.
o In the Third Person point of view, the story is not told by a character but
by an invisible author, using the third person pronoun (he, she, or it) to
tell the story. If the third person narrator gives us the thoughts of
characters then he is a third person omniscient (all knowing) narrator. If
the third person narrator only gives us information which could be
recorded by a camera and microphone (no thoughts), then he is a third
person dramatic narrator.
5. Setting
o Setting of Place
Setting of place directs to the location where the events happened
in a fiction. The use of this setting with certain name should reflect
geographical. The setting of place in a novel usually consists of several
locations, and it will move from one place to another because there is a
development of plot and character.
o Setting of Time
Setting of time related to the matter of when the events
happened in a fiction. The matter of when is usually connected with
historical events. The setting cannot be separated from the place because
it is to relate each other.
o Setting of Society
Social setting directs to the matters that are related to the behavior
of social life in certain time of a novel. It can be habits, tradition, religion,
ideology, the way of thinking, etc. this setting is part of the whole setting
because there is a unity with another setting, such place and time.
As for the setting in this novel the narrator, Humbert, moves from Paris
to New York shortly after World War 2 (1947). They travel around from state to
state staying in various motels.
This thesis focuses on three intrinsic elements; there are character, setting and
plot. Plot is a reflection of behavior or way the characters act, think, and behaves in
footing on the place and time of occurrence of the events experienced by the characters.
And from Characters will know a character may be defined as a verbal representation of
human being which builds a novel. Through an analysis of the plot, setting, character,
and point of view will reveal the underlying theme of a story.
2. Extrinsic Element
Extrinsic elements in the novel are the elements that are beyond the novel. But it
does not directly affect the system organisms literature. More specifically, the extrinsic
elements in a novel can be regarded as an element build a novel. According to Wellek
and Warren (1977), extrinsic element is also known as extrinsic factors influencing
literary works. It usually becomes a causal explanation for some descriptions, analysis,
and evaluation of a literary work. Therefore, extrinsic elements novel remains to be seen
as something that important. Extrinsic factors are the literary elements/factors which are
found outside the literary works but it indirectly influences the structure of the literary
works. Extrinsic approach is used by critics to emphasize the importance of the context
to the text. It is focused on the background, history, social conditions and biography of
the author and the values in the story. Sometimes, it connects literature to the social
context and psychology as well. The values in the story in a literary work embodied the
o Cultural values, namely the concept of basic problem is very important
and the value of human life (Eg, customs, arts, beliefs, ceremonies)
o Social values, the things that related to norms in public life
(Eg, mutual giving, helping, and tolerance)
o Aesthetic values, values related to art, beauty in the literature (about
language, plot, theme)
This extrinsic element focuses on the values of the story uses philosophy moral
teory. A study on the value of a study is important given its position as the initial
problem in moral philosophy. In addition, a study of the value study touched substantial
issues in moral philosophy. The question always comes in this study, whether the
so-called "good" and "bad". Ideal moral behavior in the eyes of Immanuel Kant was born
and moral behavior will emerge from the insistence that human beings as rational beings
and understanding, so that every moral behavior does actually born of itself is not from
outside himself. Moral or immoral behavior has actually been present and can be
controlled at the stage idea. The influence of the strong sense of lust or influence in
causing real action. When lust is more powerful effect it would appear otherwise
immoral behavior moral behavior would appear reasonable if the effect is stronger than
lust.
Based on the opinion of Immanuel Kant can be said that a person's moral
behavior is born and will appear on the insistence of a man as intelligent and virtuous
2.3. Moral,Value, and Moral Value
2.3.1. Moral
Generally speaking, morality is what drives our decision about what is "good"
and what is "bad. In Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia it is said moral is deciding good
or bad considered behavior. Morality according to Bentham is art to maximize
happiness; it can be seen by achieving the existence of happy and joyful life of all
people. A morality is sacrifice from little goodness to big goodness. (Hazlitt, 2003: 111).
According to Stemberg (1994:938), morality refers to concern with what is good or right
in people s relationships each other. A key to understanding morality is to be specific
about definition of good (or bad) and right or wrong According to Immanuel Kant
(Magnis Suseno:1992)
Morality is the assurance and inner attitude and is not merely an
adjustment to the rules of the outside, whether it's state law,
religion or customs.
Immanuel Kant, saying that morality concerning good and bad things, it means that what
is good in yourself, good on any restrictions at all.It is further said that, the quality of one's
A morality contains (1) beliefs about the nature of the man, (2) belief about
ideals, about what is good or desirable or worthy or pursuit for its own sake, (3) rules
laying down what ought to be done and (4) motives that incline us to choose the right or
the wrong course. We learn as children that we should be unselfish, that we should not
tell lies. (Paul Edwards: 1967: 150).
2.3.2. Value
The term values may suggest that judgments of right and wrong, lofty and
base, just and unjust, and more personal preferences, that thing are useful as individuals
happen to value them. (Benninga: 1991: 131). Value is something that interest for us,
something that we look for, something that pleases, something that loved, and in short
value is something good. Value have good connotation. (Bertens: 2000: 139).
2.3.3. Moral Value
Moral value is a reality that is hidden behind other realities. Judging means to
judge a human activity to connect something with something else then for the next
decision is made. Rooted in moral values that serve to encourage and direct (motivator)
attitudes and human behavior. Value as a system is one manifestation of culture in
Then, there are four characteristic of moral value. There are as following:
a. Moral value is related with responsibility
Moral value is related with human personality, but beside moral value we
also automatically can say other values. Moral value makes people wrong or not,
because he/she has responsibility. Especially moral value is related with human
personality of responsibility. Moral value just can be real in action wholly if it
became responsibility of the involved person.
b. Moral value is related with pure heart
All values need to make it real. Because it has persuasive power, it should
be practice. For example, aesthetic value, it should be practiced, play music
composition or others. To make moral value to be real, it can be appealed from
pure heart. One of special characteristics of moral values is this value will effect
voice of pure heart to accuse us if oppose moral value and praise us if make
moral value.
c. Obligation
Moral value obligates us absolutely and it can t be compromised. Other
values need to be real and admitted, for example, aesthetic value. Educative and
cultural person will admit and enjoying aesthetic value. But in different people
d. Formality
Moral value is not stand-alone without other value. Although moral value
is top value that we must appreciate, but it is not in top without other value.
Moral values did not separate with other values. For example, a seller applies
moral values all at once with apply economic values. Moral values are nothing
without other values. It is form of formality. (Bertens, 2000:143-147). Many
spiritual values or we can mention with moral values that can be learned by all
CHAPTER 3
METHOD OF RESEARCH
3.1 Research Design
In analyzing the data, the writer uses a qualitative descriptive method. Qualitative
research methods were developed in the social sciences to enabled research to study
social and cultural phenomena (Myers, 1977). Qualitative research is an inductive
approach, and its goal is to gain a deeper understanding of a person s or group
experiences, This methodology as a qualitative research procedure that produces
descriptive data in the form of written words or spoken of the people and the observed
behavior.
This thesis focuses its analysis of moral values through the main character that
has relation to the society life, so in analyzing this thesis the writer uses intrinsic and
extrinsic approach. Intrinsic approach is the study of the novel within the range of the
intrinsic elements of the novel itself. In this case focuses in one of intrinsic element that
is main character in this novel, this thesis also discuss other intrinsic elements like plot
and setting which is build the story. This thesis not discuss about character but it focuses
about moral values through the main character and moral values is not belongs to
3.2 Data Collection
In the process of collecting the data, this thesis uses several books as the source
of the data. The main source of the data is taken from the novel by Vladimir Nabokov s
Lolitathis novel as the primary source data in this thesis used to obtain the moral values
found from the main character especially sentences from the novel to take down notes
and composes in her thesis. The secondary book writer finds all data from the library or
from internet and get data from lecturer too. The writer chooses some important data
concerned about moral values in the literary work. All of data are read carefully by the
writer to find out the suitable relation with her research.
3.3 Data Analysis
When all the data collected, the data will be analyzed to get what the writer want
and has been planned in the object of this thesis. Writer has some steps to analyzing this
research. First, writer read Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov as the object of this research.
The writer takes some sentences or quote that supports an analysis. There are two
methods are commonly used, an intrinsic approach and extrinsic approach. A library
research is applied in collecting some data to support the analysis. The Writer collecting
data from some data to support the analysis from the related books which got from
library by online sources and some related source. After data collected and analyzed the
object with used descriptive analysis method. Then writer get the conclusion of this
Researcher
Source of Data
NovelLolita
Data
Selection
Quotations
Conclusion
Analysis
Descriptive
Qualitative
CHAPTER 4
ANALYSIS AND FINDING
4.1. The Main Character
1. Humbert Humbert
Humbert Humbert is born in Paris, France, to an English mother and a
Swissfather, of French and Austrian descent. His background is purely upper class: his
father owns a resort hotel on the Riviera, and he is constantly surrounded by its rich
patrons. He is white, handsome and of the privileged sex. He is educated in an English
day school as a boy, then a lycée (the second stage of secondary education in France) in
Lyon, before attending college in both London and Paris. First in psychology and then
he studies English literature, and he is a master of language. Language is an important
tool in his manipulation of those around him (as well as the reader) he dazzles with his
clever wordplay and the random insertion of French, German, and sometimes Latin into
his speech. He moves to the States in 1940. Humbert childhood is very pleasant, even
though his mother has been died but his family loves him too much.
When he is in thirteen years old, he meets Annabel, the first Lolita and they love
each other. First time Humbert and Annabel just talked peripheral affair. She wants to be
a nurse and Humbert wants to be a famous spy. His relationship with Annabel, his
coeval, whose image was to shape his love map and to be forever imprinted upon his
mind:
We loved each other with a premature love, marked by
Humbert spends his time with Annabel, but they cannot be a mate as other slum
children because they are intelligent European preadolescents children. Humbert always
met Annabel at the night. After that four months later Annabel died because her typhus
in Corfu. His childhood love makes him frustrated. He only likes girls in 9 until 14 years
old and call them nymphet . Since then, he has been obsessed with the particular type
of girl Annabel represents. He marries adult women in an effort to overcome his craving
for nymphets, but the marriages always dissolve, and the longings remain. Despite his
failed marriages, his mental problems, and his sporadic employment, Humbert still
attracts attention consistently from the opposite sex, though he usually disdains this
attention.
He loves Lolita, a girl in 12 years old because he has been frustrated with his
childhood love. Loving a woman under mutual age is so contrat to community belief. It
is supposed against th law because people have an agreement that seventeen is regarded
grown up for a woman. yet, Humbert s love orientation to a girl of twelve is a sign of
moral deviance whatever the reason will be.
2. Dolores Haze (Lolita)
Lolita is the object of Humbert's love, a young girl who epitomizes the seductive
nymphet, Humbert s ideal combination of childishness and the first blushes of
womanhood. To non pedophiles, Lolita will be a rather ordinary twelve years old girl.
Her ordinariness is a constant source of frustration for Humbert, and she consistently
towards his attempts to educate her and make her more sophisticated. She adores
popular culture, enjoys mingling freely with other people, and, like most prepubescent
girls, and has a tendency toward the dramatic. However, when she shouts and rebels
against Humbert, she exhibits more than the frustration of an ordinary adolescent: she
clearly feels trapped by her arrangement with Humbert, but she is powerless to extricate
herself.
She is an innocent, though sexually experienced child of twelve. Humbert forces
her transition into a more fully sexual being, but she never seems to acknowledge that
her sexual activities with Humbert are very different from her fooling around with
Charlie in the bushes at summer camp. By the end of the novel, she has become a
worn-out, pregnant wife of a laborer. Throughout her life, Lolita sustains an almost complete
lack of self-awareness. As an adult, she recollects her time with Humbert dispassionately
and doesn t seem to hold a grudge against either him or Quilty for ruining her childhood.
Her attitude suggests that as a child she had nothing for them to steal, nothing important
enough to value. Her refusal to look too deeply within herself and her tendency to look
forward rather than backward, might represent typically American traits, but Humbert
also deserves part of the blame. Humbert objectifies Lolita, and he robs her of any sense
of self. Lolita exists only as the object of his obsession, never as an individual. The lack
of self-awareness in a child is typical and often charming. In the adult Lolita, the
4.2. The Analysis of Moral Values through Main Characters in Vladimir Nabokov sLolita
The main discussion here is about moral values focuses on the main character in
this novel. This chapter will identified and analyzed two problems about moral values in
main characters found from the novel by Vladimir Nabokov entitledLolita.
4.2.1. Lolita is treated morally bad By Humbert
When people evaluate actions from the moral point of view, people can do this in
two very different ways. They can consider them as morally right or wrong, but they can
also judge them morally good or bad. Even though the distinction between right and
good is generally recognized by moral philosophers, there is a tendency in contemporary
ethics either to oversimplify it or to blur it altogether. Most philosophers focus on
motives when they investigate this problem. There are other good making factors and
moreover, that all of them are traits of the agent s personality. The moral worth of
actions depends on more than motivation or the agent s character, that no factors other
than personality traits determine the moral worth of actions. There are some moral
values that writer wants described in this thesis, there are rudeness, and raped.
essential boundaries of normally accepted behavior. To be unable or unwilling to align
one's behavior with these laws known to the general population of what is socially
acceptable is to be rude.
Rudeness "constituted by deviation from whatever counts as politic in a given
social context, is inherently confrontational and disruptive to social equilibrium"
(Kasper, 1990, p. 208). Forms of rudeness: inconsiderate, insensitive, deliberately
offensive, impolite, a faux pas, obscenity, profanity, violating taboos, and deviancy. In
some cases, an act of rudeness can go so far as to be criminal behavior.
Humbert s rudeness is very visible in this novel. He cannot control himself. His
story begins with his childhood, living on the Riviera with his father, who owns a hotel
in the area. Although he does not get to spend much time with his father, he entertains
himself with the guests that would stay at the hotel. One of the guests has a daughter
name Annabel Leigh, which Humbert developed a relationship with. They spend a lot
of time together but never consummating their relationship, leaving Humbert
heartbroken and yearning for that experience desperately. Annabel death is what makes
his life changed. Humbert matures and becomes a teacher, but can t shake is attraction
for little girls, he calls nymphets, for they remind him of Annabel. His sexual acts with
Annabel were never fully satisfied, leaving a perpetual desire for young girls, fulfilled
only when he falls for Lolita.
Once in America, on the advice of a friend, Humbert takes up residence in the
town of Ramsdale; he rents a room in a house owned by Charlotte Haze and her
obsessed with the 12-year-old Lolita, a nymphet who reminds him of Annabel. Charlotte
and Lolita do not get along at all, however, and Charlotte decides to send Lolita off to
summer camp followed by boarding school. Meanwhile, Charlotte proposes marriage to
Humbert. Despite his great dislike for her, Humbert readily accepts, because the
marriage will give him the opportunity to be with Lolita at all times. After the married,
lolita s mother died because of an accident. It makes humbert happy because he can be
with his dtep daughter, Dolores Haze or he always calls her Lolita.
His rudeness is he claims to have loved only Lolita, and his obsession eventually
consumes him. He claims Lolita seduced him and that she is incomplete control of the
relationship. However, Humbert, as the adult, clearly has the upper hand. He controls the
money and Lolita s freedom, and he often repeats that Lolita has nowhere to go if she
leaves him and sometimes he slap Lolita because he can control her. Humbert always
threaten Lolita to be able control her in order to keeps her in submission and passable
temper.
through thick and thin I will stay your guardian,
and if you are good. I hope a court may legalize
slavish and domineering, Humbert has little control over his feelings and impulses. He
never considers the morality of his actions, and he refuses to acknowledge that Lolita
may not share his feelings. As his relationship with Lolita deteriorates, Humbert
becomes more and more controlling of her and less and less in control of himself.
4.2.1.2. Rape
Rape is an act of sexual intercourse with another person by force in order to get
sexual satisfaction while. The women, of course, is very troubled by the act of rape is
indeed ancestors since time immemorial there. Rapists are generally male and target
isnot only women, but also young girls including minors who sometimes become
victims. Rape must be proven the element of violence or threat of violence (such as
threatened was about to be killed, injured or deprived of other rights). Acts of violence
or threat of violence was used as a road or a part of the act that targets facilitate the
sexual intercourse. Additionally violence or threat of violence that is only true outside of
matrimony. There are some types of rape, regarding a criminologist Mulyana W.
Kusuma said as follows: (Abdul Wahid, 2001:46):
1. Exploitation rape which shows that on each occasion of sexual intercourse
obtained by men by taking advantage contrary to the position of women who
depend on them economically and socially.
2. Victim Precipitated Rape That a rape had occurred (in progress) by putting the
victim as originators.
3. Anger rape which is characterized by sexual abuse sexuality as a means to
object of the offender who is projecting the solution to the frustrations,
weaknesses, difficulties and disappointments of his life.
4. Domination Rape that is a rape that occurred when the perpetrator tried to
staunch the power and superiority of the victim. The goal is a sexual conquest;
actors hurt the victim, but still have the desire to have sex.
5. A Seductive Rape is a rape that occurred in stimulating situations created by
both parties. At first, the victim decided that personal intimacy should not be
restricted as far as mating. Actors generally have a belief requires coercion,
because without it have no guilt regarding sex.
6. Sadistic rape this means that the type of aggressive sexuality and combined in
the form of the damage. Rape has not seemed to enjoy erotic pleasure through
sexual intercourse, but through a terrible attack on the genitals and the victim's
body.
In this thesis, rape by Humbert to Lolita is exploitation rape. He is Lolita s step
father, so he thinks he can do everything to Lolita. He forces Lolita to have sex with
him. And sometimes if Lolita does not want to have sex with him he threats her.
Humbert knows the punishment if he raped Lolita, his maximum penalty ten years in the
and the maximum penalty is ten years. (nabokov, 1977: 151)
But with his word, he can make Lolita afraid if he goes to jail. Lolita horrible life
was began. Humbert also take advantage of this opportunity, Humbert always asking her
to have sex with Lolita sometimes forcing her. If she refused, Humbert was threatening.
Lolita could not do anything because he's an orphan, Humbert only one who she had.
She should do what Humbert want, because it's just that's the only way to survive. Lolita
has been raped for 3 years but nothing could be done. And sometimes Humbert hits her
because she cannot be regulated. Every night during they live nomad, Lolita always
crying and lamenting her fate.
Some effect of the raped to Lolita are Being a trauma in men and sexual
relationships, Mentally damaging for a child not yet know the sex time and be an
extortion, stress to be mentally ill, Injury or injured by persecution, Losing virginity /
chastity. One of the quotations states about Lolita be extortion can be seen in the
following quotation.
she proved to be a cruel negotiator whenever it was in her power
to deny me certain life wrecking, strange, slow paradisal philters
without which I could live more than a few days in a row, and
which, because of the very nature of love s langour, I couldnot
obtain force her.(Nabokov, 1977: 184)
Lolita started controlling Humbert life, because Humbert is getting crazy about
of asking for more pocket money, if Humbert does not give it then she did not want to
flirt with him.
4.2.2. Lolita survives with the circumstance of her life
Survive, this is an important word should be kept in mind, because if people do
not ever remember this word, perhaps the number of people in this world will become
less and less. Because when people are not able to survive them to resign, give up and
eventually die leaving the world with silly. Survive, people have to endure. It should
because if people cannot defend the decisions they make, they will never find how much
the true strength. Moral values can be seen because of social forces like obsession, and
possessive
A social force is anything within a society that has the capability to bring about
change or encourage someone to bring about or cause change. Social force any effective
urge or impulse that leads to social action. Specifically, a social force is a consensus on
the part of a sufficient number of the members of society to bring about social action or
social change of some sort. In the plural, the social forces are the typical basic drives, or
her life is change. In august, 15th 1947 Humbert picks her up in Q camp and in that day
Lolita s life has change. When Humbert picks her up, she doesn t know that her mother
was died. Humbert tells a lie because he wants take Lolita with him. Their first
destination is Enchanted Hunter hotel and in that hotel Humbert rapes her. Lolita was
having sex with Humbert three times in Briceland. Lolita wants to call her mother, and
finally Humbert tell to her that her mother was died. She is very shock. So she had
absolutely nowhere else to go and Humbert fell he has control of Lolita.
Lolita horrible life was beginning. Humbert also takes an advantage of this
opportunity, Humbert always asking her to have sex with Lolita sometimes forcing her.
If she refuses it, Humbert was threatening. Lolita cannot do anything because he's an
orphan, Humbert only one who she had. Lolita started acting suspicious, it looks like she
is hiding and planning something. Humbert is too suspicious (which is the writers looks
as if Humbert has symptoms of schizophrenia), He over control of Lolita. He thinks he
can control Lolita again but unconsciously, Lolita begins to revolt from Humbert. In the
second journey, they were followed by a man. Humbert become very watchful. Because
of that, Humbert begin to suspect her. He becomes a jealous man and he thinks, there is
a man who will kidnap Lolita. They continue the journey, with Humbert that became
very annoying.
In Elphinstone, Lolita fell ill, the doctor said that it is a virus infection and she
had to be hospitalized. Unbeknown Humbert, Lo herself has fallen in love with Clare,
author of the drama that had played, the same age as Humbert. Lolita runs away from
Lolita succeeds escape from him. She runs away with Clare Quilty, a play writer. But
Clare not really Loves her, he just a crazy person. When Lolita doesn t want to do what
Clare said and then he evicts Lolita from his house.
Three years later, Lo sent a letter to Humbert, stating that she needed money for
her family. Humbert was driving to Lolita s home. He finds Lo is pregnant and is not
like a kid again. Humbert realized that he not only loves Lo as a child twelve years old
but he has falling in love with Lo no matter her age. Humbert cries and begs Lo back to
him. Lo politely refuse. Lo is never really loves Humbert, she just handed over her body
but not the liver.
4.2.2.1. Obsession
Obsession is a dreamy achievement that must be owned finally. Obssession is
shaped by a condition where a person has a desire for something and will try his best to
fulfill that desire. Psychologically, obssession is a mental process to look at choicess of
live available. Since not all choices can be satisfactory, obssession may lead someone
into trouble such as mental disturbance or the like. If the obssession comes true it may
make someone get his or her happiness to go on living as the way he or she wants to be.
when moral values are inherent to what is obssessed, and is regarded wrong when it is
against the social values.
In Humbert s case, his obssession Lolita is o, he over control. He looses his
control for himself and it destroys him. Humbert thinks that Lolita is his own obssession
without any limit.. It begins from his childhood love, Annabel. He is very frustrated
because Annabel has passed away. He just likes a girl, and calls with nymphet. He does
not attract with adult woman. It can explain in this following quotation.
The haze of star, the tingle, the flame, the honeydew,
and the ache remained with me, and that little girl with
her seaside limbs and ardent toungue haunted me ever
since- until at last, twenty four years later, I broke her
spell by incarnating her in another.
In that statement, he is very obssessive with Annabel; he ever tries to marry with
an adult woman but it has failed, he always has a relationship with many girls but he
does not find Annabel s type in those girls. Until twenty four years, when he moves to
Ramsedale he meets Dolores Haze. And he thinks Dolores Haze is his second Annabel
or his Lolita. He doesn t want anybody to hurt Lolita. at the end of the story when he
knows who has kidnapped Lolita is Clare Quilty; Humbert becomes very angry and
promises to himself to find him and avenge him. His obsession makes him unable to
4.2.2.2 Possessive
Possessive is a mental behavior of owning something completely without a
certain kind of linit. It is a reflection of what has been directed by an individual wishes.
Possessive manner is a manifestation of egoistic or selfish personality. There is no room
of freedom for one who has such manner for the other persons. Shortly, possessive
manner is one action of over protection.
Lolita is a victim of possesive ambition from a man who is called Humbert.
Humbert seems to think that Lolita is a woman who must be kept in chain. This kind of
manner has brought Lolita into a deep trouble because she has no freedom to do what
she thinks right for herself. Humbert has controlled Lolita s life completely with a
simple reason that he loves her completely. In this point, the problem of posssessive
manner is the tendency of being rude in manner when things do not run well. The weak
will become the target of the strong.
Humbert holds tightly the cultural sense of patriarchy. As a man, he thinks that
he is greater than a woman. The patriarchy concept has rooted in his mind culturaly by
positioning woman is weaker than a woman. it can be traced in their love relationship
when Humbert treats Lolita as the way he likes. He believes that he is a king in his
violence to her physically. Such a bad treatment is continuously done only because of
misunderstanding of what a man has done to a woman. a sense of possessive manner has
been wrongly understood practically. With such a simple reason, Humbert overcomes
Lolita s freedom through loving her as the way he likes.
Whether or not, the phenomenon of possive manner is a mask of man to control a
woman with his own belief in that culture sense. Eventhough, in contrast, a woman can
be possessive too over a man. If it happens that kind of woman will be blamed culturaaly
because a woman is suppossed to serve a man. This becomes a conflict for a woman in
general to pursue her freedom over a man. This problematic situation has been
experienced by Lolita when she is trapped in her weakness over Humbert s manliness.
I said nothing. I pushed her softness back into the room
and went in after her. I ripped her shirt off. I unzipped the
rest of her. I tore off her sandals. Wildly, I pursued the shaddow
of her. Infidelity; but the scnt I travelled upon was so slight
as to be practically undistinguishable from a madman s fancy.
The phrase a madman s fancy shows how the effect of possessive manner
turns into rudeness which is morally unacceptable. The perspective of being stronger has
wrongly applied in action. Such a deed seems so general for those who beleive in
patriarch world where man is born to be a king or man is the owner of the world. This
kind of gap position between man and woman is culturally a long history of the man s
It is true that historically, man is the symbol of family who earns the life and
woman stays at home to look after the kids. Yet, this demarcacy is only a product of
cultur which is not suitable anymore at this rapidly changing world. The concept of
equality has echoed the true sense of humanity where a man is equal with a woman in
front of God s authority. As a fact, cultural sense is much stronger than what should be
than what must be done. Still, a woman is becoming the victim of man s partial
understanding over a woman.
Humbert s possessive manner towards Lolita has resulted from many causes. He
finds that Lolita is a woman who has no insight of life. Besides, she is uneducated and
cannot struggle for herself to make up her own life. She is the victim of social force in
her environment since childhood. The broken home of parents divorce has mad her
imbalanced to look deeper on what life is. By having these bitter live background, Lolita
has made her own way to be trapped in her weakness as a woman. by doing so, Hmbert
seems to underestimate Lolita in a bad manner of possessive orientation.
Possessiv manner is morally a selfish manifestation over one s life. whatever the
reason is everyone has a certain right to determine his or her life. Yet, over owning is an
arrogant behavior that limits the space of running life as the way should be. Lolita has
symbol of protest that Lolita can go on her life without Humbert. Analogously, Lolita s
attitude to destroy Humbert s arrogancy means a freedom of all women over men s
authority towards woman. To say simply, Lolita s final reaction over Humbert by
leaving him is a road for a woman to succed her life without a man like Humbert. She
wants to declare that a woman has a right to decide what she thinks right as a man will
CHAPTER 5
CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
5.1. Conclusion
After analyzing the moral values through the main character in the novel Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov, it can be drawn some conclusion to answer the problems of this
thesis. In this Novel Nabokov wants to show to many people in the world about Moral
failure, about an adult man who always loves a girl, the wayward child, the egoistic
mother, and the panting maniac. It warns of dangerous of trends, point out potent of evil.
Bad experienced since child that may make a child grows imbalance morally. It
influences the character at the person being had. In this novel, Humbert had a bad
experience on his childhood love that made him just likes teenage girl. And when he still
a boy he always get what he wants so it will make him grow into a rude boy and forcing
child. That s what makes him do rudeness to Lolita. Because of his bad treatment, that
makes Lolita be a rude girl, forcing girl, like yelling to other person, impolite, overly
emotional and grown up is not at her age. Moral formed in children is what is done by
an adult. In other words an adult person is demand for children.
Maybe she gives her body but she does not give her heart. Moral values which
appreciated in action bring Lolita looks at life better and Lolita grownup be a principles
woman. She has a principle of her life to continue living with her husband and give birth
to her child.
Finally, the novel itself is a picture and a representative of human real life. It
seems that the moral lessons which found from the novel can be a lesson for the reader
to know what to do, how to behave, and what decision should the reader choose when
5.2 Suggestion
Novel is a portrait of life to understand man and his life. It is so the novel
provides characters which are representing men in general. Thus, reading a novel is to
understand what life is.
Nabokov s Lolita is a summary of man s life experience that can be traded
morally. It teaches how man must behave in accordance with moral values to go on
living. Moral values are supposed to be standard in running the life much better. Yes,
since life is a matter of choices, moral values like a coin that contains two sides: bad and
good. This novel emphasizes goodness whichever badness. It strengthen the sense of
moral values are those that contain goodness to make people better.
This novel is full with insights that can be studied from different angle of visions
some this study is only a part, it is suggested that the novel be understand deeper than
moral values only. Hopefully, this study is a guiding clue those who want to study this
