Essay - Free Will and Deviant Behavior: 'Otherness' of Individual Freedom in...

Free will and deviant behavior: "Otherness" of individual freedom in "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov and "The Stranger" by Albert Camus

Literature has always ********** humanity by interpreting the most mundane events and activities in ***** life of people into the most creative and expressive forms of art. Through these interpretations, human life is given more meaning and hence, creates more relevance and significance to human society. It is perhaps a r*****re occurrence to depict the extraordinary or 'unthinkable' scenario in literary works, especially when the theme ***** human suffering ***** sorrow ***** depicted. Because ***** sorrow is a univers*****l feeling that everyone experiences, the absence of this ***** in literature makes ***** literary work an extraordinary or unrealistic illustration of life.

*****, the latter category ***** literature is evident in the ***** Vladimir ***** and Albert *****, authors of the novels "Lolita" and "***** Stranger," respectively. In both literary **********, ***** theme of exercising one's individual freedom or free ***** is illustrated through each novel's protagonist's deviant behavi*****. This paper discusses and analyzes how this theme is depicted through each author's characterization of their protagonists, including events that helped reinforce the deviant behavior that they had decided to adopt ***** exercise in ***** rigidly conservative society.

In the texts ***** follow, discussion and analysis of ***** two novels subsist ***** the thesis that the concept of free will ***** "Lolita" and "The Stranger" is demonstrated through ***** behavior, and ***** this exercise of ***** freedom ultimately led to ***** downfall or destruction of the protagonist in ***** end.

Camus elucidates the ma***** argument that this paper presents: in the preface to "The Stranger," he identifies the character of Meursault, ***** novel's protagonist, suffering a downfall "because he does not play the game." In this paper, the characters' inability to '***** ***** game***** ***** ***** sets out for each individual leads to their isolation from and eventually, condemnation *****, the society. Non-conformity to the norms ***** ***** through the exercise of one's free ***** is considered deviant, and society considers that it is its function ***** ensure ***** deviant behavior ***** not tolerated in order to preserve the '*****' and stability that social norms and rules *****fer to civil society.

In the novel "Lolita," the exercise of free will and depiction of ***** behavior is reflected in ***** character of Humbert Humbert, the *****'s protagonist and narrator. In Nabokov's literary piece, he portrays Humbert as emotionally unstable due to his unrealized desires for his childhood sweetheart Annabel. This ***** already serves as a *****es*****ow*****g of future events that ***** happen in the novel, wherein readers identify Humbert's character as a deviant of his society. His memoirs of an emotionally unstable development ***** being a man is stated as follows, wherein he assumes a tone of longing *****nd sadness for ***** "Annabel": "...t***** haze of stars, the tingle, the flame, the honey-dew, and the ache remained with me, and that little girl with her seaside limbs and ardent tongue haunted ***** ever