Solipsism, which is the theory that a person's mind is the only entity whose existence is certain, has various moral implications that allow people with a solipsistic view of their world to justify the mistreatment inflicted on others. In Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, Humbert Humbert, a self-proclaimed murderer and lover of "nymphets", demonstrates a solipsistic worldview that leads him to see everything in relation to himself, creating new personas for different characters and not narrating that series of events from his perspective. Humbert's solipsism causes him to see everything that happens to him solely from his point of view, as he believes his mind is all that exists, thus making the events that occur solely acts of fate and the people he encounters products of his imagination. Humbert's solipsism compromises the reliability of his narrative, as he describes the characters exclusively from his point of view by stripping them of their individuality and describing them only in relation to himself; Humbert's tendency to write exclusively from his own point of view forces the reader to accept the series of events he presents as truth, without any outside input, allowing him to completely control the reader's perception of him - same and events of the novel. Humbert's solipsism allows him to create his own imaginary world in which he controls everything, including the creation of a group of characters whom he describes as he sees fit; Humbert describes various characters, notably Charlotte Haze, and allows him to control the reader's perception of the plot, removing any objectivity from his narration. Humbert's desire for sympathy from the reader in order to justify his actions leads him to describe certain characters in specific ways...... middle of paper ...... the various names that accompany them, writing: “She was Lo, Lo plain, in the morning, standing four feet ten in a sock. She was Lola in pants. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms, she was still Lolita” (9). By assigning different names to the different roles she plays and creating the name Lolita to use when she is with him, Humbert makes the character of Lolita a figment of his vast imagination. In one of Humbert's rare moments of overt honesty, he writes: "Lolita had been safely solipsized...I looked at her, rosy, golden, beyond the veil of my controlled pleasure, without realizing it. realize, which was foreign to her..." (60) and continues to write later: "what I had possessed was not her, but my own creation, another fanciful Lolita - perhaps more real than Lolita ; overlapping, enveloping it; floating between her and me, and having no will, no