Abstract

    Vladimir Nabokov is an American novelist in the twentieth century, and Lolita is the most famous representative work of him. It has been enjoying enormous popularity since its publication. This thesis will make a tentative study on the initiation theme of this novel. According to the pattern of an initiation story, the heroine grows up from innocence to befuddlement, and then achieve maturity. Lolita is such a girl who is very innocent in her early adolescence. During the travel with her stepfather, she undergoes all the hardships and experiences the confusion, eventually, she achieves her maturity. In her process of growth, her mother and her stepfather act as guider in their own way, playing a very important role in her initiation. Thus, Lolita is an initiation story, exposing the teenagers’ problems in their process of growth.

Key Words: Lolita  Initiation  Innocence  Maturity

摘  要

弗拉基米尔•纳博科夫是20世纪的美国小说家。洛丽塔是他最著名的的代表作。自从出版以来受到热烈欢迎。本论文中试图解析《洛丽塔》小说中的成长主题。根据成长小说的传统模式，主人公都会经历从无知到迷惘再到成熟的过程。作品中的主人公洛丽塔就是这样一个女孩，她从年幼的年少无知到青春迷惘，在和继父一起旅行的过程中，她经历了很多磨难，也有过困惑，最终她走向成熟。在她的成长中，两个引路人，她的母亲和她的继父，都对她有很大的影响。通过这些分析，笔者认为， 洛丽塔从某种意义上来说，它符合成长小说的基本模式，反映了青少年在成长过程中会遇到的种种问题。

关键词：洛丽塔 成长小说 无知 成熟

1 Introduction
This part will give a brief introduction to the significance of the study and the organization of the thesis. The thesis tries to analyze the work from the perspective of initiation, exploring the teenagers’ mental world.
1.1 Significance of the Study
Lolita, the most famous representative work of Nabokov, has been attracting the eyes of the critics all over the world. It is a controversial work. Despite of questioning the author’s sense of morality, Lolita undoubtedly is a great work worth reading. Scholars tried to explore this novel from different views. Like Joann Karges, he studies the novel from the butterfly polymorphous perspective, and states that the novel  had a lepidoptera-centered theme.He presents that “Lolita is not a personification of the butterfly…many of her motions and her actions are analogous to those of a butterfly.”