Love is a very subjective idea; it comes in many forms, takes on many shapes and means many different things to many different people. With that in mind, I don’t think we can objectify the love H.H. had for Lo. But I will offer an argument based on my own opinion of love. I think that one of the many attributes of love is to put one’s own self behind the one that you love. Since somebody mentioned Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, I will use that story as a point of reference. Romeo was willing to take his own life for Juliet and vice versa – in response to the pain of living in a world without the other. Would H.H. do that for Lo? Let’s look at it another way. In Titanic, when Jack Dawson and Rose Bukater were in the ice cold sea drifting about, Jack helped Rose up on a floating door while he stayed in the water and eventually died of hypothermia. This is a good example of putting your loved one’s livelihood in front of your own. H.H. never had Lo’s interests in mind, he never put her first. He essentially used her until she couldn’t take it any more and she moved on. By my standards of love, Lolita is not a love story, but a lust story.
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