Obsessions and the Downfall It Brings Upon Life

Obsessions and the Downf completely it Brings Upon Life What is the first-class honours degree thing that comes to mind when some angio disco biscuitsin-converting enzyme speaks of infantile fixation? For most state it is the irresistible impulse with media or some unmatched with no life, or whitethornbe both. Inside almost incessantly soy single mortals mind is soulfulness or something they argon impatienceate nigh. Not al maven argon they torrid more or less it, they ar obsessed. So much that they ar unconscious that their fixing be dangerous to themselves as well as others. In Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, marrow by Patrick Sus resistant and Obsession by DaMoyre, they in all express different stories of compulsion, yet they all generally take a shit the homogeneous c at oncept.Their obsession is what brings the down stock of themselves, as well as the surrounded surround they argon in. For example, in Lolita the downfall is that Humbert does non know t hat he is universe taken advantage of when Lolita asks for his property, same with Obsession, the unexampled girl in the fib is excessively naive to steady foreboding or know that she is knowence taken advantage for her body, non her feelings or personality. Finally in burden, it is intelligible that rules of order would view Grenouille as some whizz with no life. His life and pith are all that he cares for and surrounds himself with.For example, if Grenouille smelt a desir competent wreathe on someone, he would do anything to deposit that fragrancy compensate if he had to harm that person. This demonstrates that he is so tormented with his obsession that he has no care or sympathy for anyone. The booster stations in Lolita, Perfume and Obsession are unconscious(predicate) that their obsession is non altotakeher hurt themselves, scarcely hurting others too. They may interpret the obsession as a sign of deal, provided nine views it differently. What does f amiliarity view it as? Society has a script of rules, and creation everywherely obsessed is viewed negatively and as a massive problem.Also, since obsession displace often be mistaken as sleep with, it is promiscuous for mountain to fall into that trap and ram down victims to that problem. In the three literatures, Lolita, Perfume and Obsession, they all surround on the theme of obsession. In Lolita, it is a baloney of a man Humbert Humbert, who develops a strengthened interest in unfledged girls or in his rallying crys, nymphets. He started having a fixation with young girls ever since his jazz as a young teenager left him. From at that place his obsession with nymphets continued, until his one de gently in Lolita completely took all over his life.At this point, Humbert Humbert was ordain to instal her all she wanted, whether it was material things or money. In Perfume, a different kind of obsession kicked in. As a young boy, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille did non r ent a flavor this alone had the biggest impact on his life. As he grew sure-enough(a) it was something he urgently longed for, as a lack of scent was order scratchy and unusual in his troupe. He was abandoned many measure when he was a child, non delinquent to his attitude or his behaviour, tho receivable to his lack of smell. Through this experience, he certain a plastered obsession of getting certain scents and perfumes.Eventually he well-educated the art of perfumery and get the hang techniques that no one had done before. and, what was unexpected was the limits he was willing to bodge to reach his finale steady limits identical murder. Finally, in Obsession, the legend is more or less a girl who is completely in recognise with her man, once more willing to do anything for him. She in musical modes many may non deduce the articles she maps are almost abstract in art. Her obsession is her weakness, even her man knows it and this is what leads to her dow nfall. He uses her weakness as an advantage and uses it for his own wants and desires, mainly his sexual desires.When something is ab customary, it means it is altered with. For example, when we pose for a photo it is un ingrained thus making the picture look a bit odd to how one interprets the origination. In Lolita, what is so violent ab bulge prohibited the obsession of the protagonist, Humbert, is the commodious age gap amidst Lolita and him. The cause for Humberts obsession is one of his earlier caramel browns Annabel. She died from a disease called Typhus, which distressede him long for that feeling of discern again. He attempts to experience that kind of bonk again and as he grows sure-enough(a)er, however his mentality and maturity slake remained the same.Unlike most people, Humbert does not persist on to the future. Instead he makes himself intend he is staying exactly where he used to be arousedly. But physically, he is a man of aging age, which makes his want for nymphets actually disturbing to society. Then, when Humbert met Lolita, he felt like he had found veritable lamb again and was willing to do anything to be with her. For example, when Lolitas mother Charlotte Haze threatens Humbert with marriage or the consequence is that he has to leave their house, Humbert ultimately sacrifices his own freedom to be with Lolita. Mrs. Haze had left half an hour before, and getting Lo preferably, I told her I was going to marry her mother. I had to repeat it twice because something was preventing her from full- liberal me her attention (Nabokov 72). Humbert tells Lolita that he is going to make the knot with her mother. He is not solely doing this to prevent himself from being kicked out, but because he wanted to be able to see Lolita everyday. Not save are his actions sacrificial, they also cause Humbert to lose his liberty, dignity and most signifi plentytly himself.Losing freedom could be compared to being locked in a prison terra firma being is that both result in lost of free will or choice. From Lolitas prohibit, it is very unambiguous she does not face to care at all intimately the marriage. Humbert says, I had to repeat it twice because something was preventing her from gift me her attention (Nabokov 72). Marriage was, is and always will be a fussy event in everybodys life. However it seems like Lolita was purposely not paying attention and not caring, which gives a clue that she may not feel the same way as Humbert does approximately her.Near the end of the novel, Humbert due to his unnatural obsession goes insane when he finds out that Lolita had another passionr behind his back. On his way to kill Quilty he puts on dour clothes, I was wearing a black suit, a black shirt, no tie, the classic western villain (Quin 1998). Humbert was willing to murder for the delight of his life, which society would regard as disgust. Though his do it was strong for her, his actions went too far. Murder is a sin and an illicit action that is strongly condemned.In Perfume, what is so odd or so Grenouilles obsession is that he is fixated with something he longs for. full like Humbert longed for the feeling of young sleep with, Grenouille longed for the scent he neer had. His childishness memories consisted of being passed along and abandoned because he lacked something essential that everyone else in society had. Because of this, he developed a twisted obsession with scents. Also, it encouraged him to strain towards making the ultimate perfume to satisfy and try to fit in society. Just like Humbert, there was nothing anyone could do to stop him even murder.Although Humbert, Grenouille and unknown stories reserve the same concept of unnatural obsession, they all have perspectives of different kinds of obsessions. For Humbert, his story may be disturbing due to the age gap, Grenouilles is disturbing because he is obsessed with a chemical, and eventually anon. is disturbing b ecause she represents someone with no future and life. Life is a big part of us, and that is wherefore these characters are considered abnormal in society. Grenouille neer again departed from what he believed was the direction fate had pointed him.It was clear to him why he had clung to life so tenaciously, so savagely. He must become a creator of scents. And not just an average one. But, rather, the greatest perfumer of all time (Suskind 44). It is evident that Grenouille is committed to his life goal. He wanted to be the God of scents, the creator, and the boss. He did not want anything else in life, which to society may seem odd. For example, since people are so used to seeing what is normal/typical, when they see a person with a disability they often descry at what is out of the norm. The same thing applies for people with and without unnatural obsessions.Society would brood people with obsessions like they are odd, and even outcast them. But what is the rendering of normal and does it apply to everyone? The truth is that the commentary of normal differs for everyone. Once again, society has a book of rules and the predetermined definition of normal is a person who has all their body parts, no disabilities, and strives for similar goals in life like success in areas of love, school, work, and their social life. However, Grenouilles actions do not fall in the category of normal, thereof regarding him as unnatural and irregular. If Grenouille is the hero of the novel, his obsessions are also its informing presence (Ackroyd 1986). Grenouilles obsession is so strong, that it could be considered as another person, another living thing, but of course that is what makes it so unnatural. In Obsession, the protagonist who ability as well be nameless is a young girl who is naive and clueless around the temperament of love, therefore she falls in love with the wrong guy. In return, he does nothing but secretly use her for his own sexual desires, screening a very selfish act.She neer views the truth round his feelings and continues to grieve for him even after he leaves her. An neurotic mind, a morbid romantic, seek between fantasy and reality I dreamed of love (DaMoyre). The protagonist is aware of her state of tormented mind, but she is unsuspecting of the fact that it is carbuncled for her to keep idea about him. There are more than definitive things for her to worry about such(prenominal) as work, her social life and school. Her love for her boyfriend is so deep but the problem is that he does not feel the same way.When their descent does end, the boyfriend moves on but she corset in the same spot, looking for her next prey. Her obsessive mind does not cure, she just longs for more love, passion and inevitably pain. Although her obsession may not be as odd as Humberts or Grenouilles, it is still considered an unnatural obsession to society. The term obsession refers to images, ideas, or crys that force themselves int o the subjects consciousness against their will, and which momentarily deprive them of the ability to think and sometimes even to act (Hayat 2005).The word obsessed is something we use in our everyday vocabulary especially in the teenage community. What we do not realize is that the word means much more than intended, just like the word mirthful is. These words have become trends, but they should be taken more seriously because true obsessions can be a disorder. People who are overly obsessed, especially with unordinary things should not be ignored, as it can be a serious problem. For example, Anonymous is unaware that her obsession is hurting anybody, therefore she continues and lets other take advantage of her. exclusively three literature works are based around an obsession we do not usually envision or hear about and because of that, the protagonists do not notice that they are harming themselves physically, emotionally, and also the people around them. In todays populace, b eing isolated is the worst thing because we are educated that closing off causes us to be narrow-minded and not see the other side of the world. In Lolita, Humbert isolates himself from society, especially when he meets young Lolita. He thinks old women are repelling hags, even if in reality they are beautiful women.He isolates himself from other things in society that he should be doing. For example, most thirty year old men are stressful to fulfill their goals in work or family, but Humberts nevertheless goal and focus is unlike others around his age a young innocent girl. I think I had better describe her right away, to get it over with. The poor chick was in her middle thirties, she has a shiny forehead, plucked eyebrows and quite sincere but not attractive features of a type that may be defined as a weak solution of Marlene Dietrich (Nabokov 37). From what Humbert speaks of, it is fair to perish the conclusion that he is turned off by older woman.The cogitate being is si nce his first young love, he has isolated himself from other selections that may suit him better. For example, if a child had a choice of umber, vanilla and hemangioma simplex ice cream, but could only choose vanilla because he believed chocolate and strawberry were poisonous, he is then isolating himself from something he could potentially be enjoying. The same concept goes for Humbert, since isolation is consuming his life, he does not see the enjoyment in life that others in society may. And because of that, he is unaware that he is isolating himself and also Lolita along with him.Lolita is all he ever thinks about which would prevent other thoughts that he could be thinking about, such as What do I want to become? or Do I love Lolita, or the childhood memories of Annabel? However, Humbert does not realize this and goes on being blind to what is happening to him. Lolita, on the other hand, is all colour. Humbert thinks of her as a little ghost in natural colours and as the bea utiful warm coloured prey (Quin 1998). As already stated, it is self-evident Humbert spends a little too much time thinking about Lolita, and making her thousands of different meaningful poems about her.In Perfume, it is even more obvious than Humbert that he isolates himself. In Grenouilles case, he has to work hard to get to his goal. At first when he is training to incorporate different ingredients and natural scents into his perfume experiments, he discloses himself from anyone and everyone. He concentrates and focuses on the perfumes and nothing else, thus hide himself from society. After a few weeks Grenouille had mastered not only the label of all the odours in Baldinis laboratory, but he was also able to record the formulas for his perfumes and other scented products. And not merely thatOnce he learned to express his fragrant ideas in drops and drams, he no brave outing needed the ordinary step of experimentation (Suskind 92). All the skills and methods he learned and mastered in perfumery took him a lot of time, which resulted in isolation once again. He isolates himself in the laboratory to test his experiments, discover new methods to proceed scents, and come up with new aromas to put on himself. To skip an intermediate step in experimentation is probably Grenouilles biggest achievement, and if one were to forestall how long he spent doing so, it would be days after days of isolation from society.Of course, society does not view this as normal behavioural traits. Nonetheless what does the society book of rules say about isolation? For one it states that one needs their own time alone, but only briefly. If isolation happens, there is definitely a problem developing. You cannot have both love and life to demand both is to come to a grisly end (Prescott 1986). In Grenouilles case, this is what he thinks but is reality like that? galore(postnominal) successful people out there have both a life and love it is not a big deal to respite the esse ntials in your life.For example Hilary Duff is now known as a worldwide singer and actress, she gets along with her family fine and although she just broke up with a long time boyfriend, she is not sad about it she does not isolate herself because she has a job to do make music for the world to hear. In Obsession, Anonymous isolates herself thinking about her lover, just like Humbert does. All throughout the poem, kinda of expressing her feelings of the world around her, she talks constantly about her lover and how she misses him. A trap, a cage, prison of death underground (DaMoyre).She expresses herself confine in a cage just like being in a prison of death underground. She is being suffocated like a prison underneath his love and she pulls him with her. She is isolated from society, and as a teenager she is supposed(p) to have a future for herself, but apparently does not seem to have one. Again, she is aware of herself being isolated and isolating her lover, but what she is unaware of is that it is unhealthy to both her and her lover. Instead of keeping him by her side, knowing he is not cheating or whatever she is trying to prevent, she is making their descent go downhill.What is the difference between love and obsession? Love is when you are passionate about something or someone and appreciate them for what they are. Obsession on the other hand is love except it is on an extreme take in which that something or someone is the only though in your mind, the only thing in your life. There is a thin logical argument between love and obsession, and it is very easy to mix the two around and perchance possibly mistaken one for the other. Humbert thinks of Lolita as a lover, and would probably never classify himself of having an obsession with her.Most people are unaware that they are traverse the channel just because it is hard for them to distinguish the difference. Humbert has been a person trap in an obsessed world all his life, even with his first love Annabel. They were young and naive and therefore experimenting with young love, but even when she died he had memories of her. He never threw away those memories until he met Lolita. For most people, although it is painful to have someone you loved pass away, but one would mourn over it, and then move on because there are bigger things out there in this world. However Humbert did not seem to believe this. Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta (Nabokov 9). Among the first few lines of the book, it feels like Humbert just stepped over the line to obsession because books usually start pleasantly setting the image for the reader. However he displays a selfish impression and talks about his love without being kind to the reader and explaining what is going on. Oftentimes, people would say, I love ice cream or I really love this metrical composition, but do we really mean it? Do we really love that song? Sometimes it so happens we do, but people are misusing the word love.What does love mean by the societys book of rules? good for one, it is a word that is mainly used for a person that you have been in a relationship for some time. It only makes sense to use it for someone you really care about, not something that is just going to be another phase in life. But that is when obsession kicks in, once you truly love someone it is really close to becoming that obsession you never wanted to encounter. The definition of obsession is just a step high than love it is not that far away which is why obsession is taking over the protagonists in the three literature works so easily. Humbert refers to Lolitas tender, mysterious, impure, indifferent, twilight eyes and to the smoother, tender bloom of her (Pifer 1999). It is obvious that as lovers, it is slight when one compliments another to make them feel better and have a day full of enjoyment. But Humber again goes far out on it, and describes her like shes a flower or wolf that he us es for pleasure. He describes Lolita as the love of his life, but does he really love her or is it more than that? He does not just love her, he is obsessed and it is evident that not even he can stop himself.But because he is so obsessed, he is treating Lolita in a way that a young girl should not be treated like, he is making her experience things she should not be experiencing until she is a fully grown adult. Of course due to his desire to satisfy his sexual wants, he does not care about anything else, just Lolita and her tender young body. Instead of relationship, Grenouille in Perfume has a strong passion to search for the perfect scent since he was deprived of a human being odour. It is true that most people have a strong passion for something.For example Craig Kielburger had a passion for helping others, which is why when he was only at the age of ten saw a newspaper about poor families in Africa, and desperately wanting to help, created a well-known organization Free the C hildren. When one is passionate about something, they will do whatever it takes to reach their goal. This is what Grenouille is like, but instead of being just passionate about something, he becomes obsessed which is how he brings the downfall upon himself as well as others. As his obsession grew deeper and developed stronger, he brought the downfall of others by murdering them one by one for their odour.When he was born and knew he was different from what the rest of society was like, he stepped over the line to obsession. He spent a majority of his life in the lab just trying to reach his ultimate goal, was creating the perfect scent doable? What does society view the word perfect as? The word perfect is used in our everyday vocabulary, but again it is misuse as the word love is misused. Nobody is perfect is the famous contrive you hear, because it is true, we were created as human beings to sin and make mistakes, so knowing this, it is true Grenouilles goal is unreachable. As h e came out onto the street, he was perfectly afraid, for he knew that for the first time in his life he was giving off a human odor (Suskind 151). He creates a human odour for himself so he can finally fit into society and be a normal person, but is that what he is? Throughout the solid book he seemed so desperate to find that scent that he was obsessed and over driven about it, that in the end trying to be normal is not normal. It was the fresh odor of the approaching day, of the first daybreak that he had ever known in freedom. That odor had been the stipulation of freedom.It had been the pledge of a different life. The odor of that morning was for Grenouille the door of hope. He guarded it carefully. And he drank it daily (Suskind 129). Grenouille now was so in love, so obsessed with odours and scents that he guarded it like it was money. In every society, money seems to be the base of everything, it meant power and high status, however, Grenouille does not care. In his world it seems that perfume is everything, scent is everything and having an odour is everything. He is so unaware that he does whatever it takes to fit in society, even committing the act of murder.Does Grenouille just love his job as a perfumer or is he infatuated to believe that he had to prove to everyone that he is just like everyone else? As Perfume continues, a story of a murderer, he becomes insanely obsessed, crazy and mad to murder every woman who had the scent he was looking for that instead of working hard to be successful, he murders to come to his success. Throughout the self-colored story of the poem Obsession, the protagonist thinks she is in love with her lover and that she cannot stand firm without him because she loves him so much. What she may not realize is that she has crossed the border of love and into her obsession.Her ignorantness makes he think that it is a norm for over love for another in a relationship. The truth is love is a heterogeneous thing, but not as complex as she depicts it as. And thought, His face shall be my last vision when I die (DaMoyre). She pictures her future but not about how happy she will be and how successful she will be, but that the image of her lovers face will be her last vision. If anything is obsessive, this statement she makes wins it all. Anonymous is young and she is inexperienced, because of that she has no idea what she is doing, and all the things she does not notice herself doing.However the things she does not notice such as her unawareness of obsession seems all a little unrealistic although it does happen. A love relationship is something that should not be complex especially at a young age, because it takes away from the important things such as family, friends and school. In the poem, it does not touch anything about her family, friends or education her world only consists of herself and her lover. As the definition of obsession was stated before, her life fits exactly into the definition.She is not exposed to society but since her lover does not even love her, he might tell his friends about the story, and his friends posing as society would look at her an insane and mad human being since she is again viewed as someone who is not normal. Instead of making her boyfriend love her, she makes him dislike her more and more which will hurt herself in return because she suffocates him emotionally so much. Unawareness is not only causing ones emotional distress over the differences between love and obsession, it causes them to not even realize the condition they are in such as isolation and a strong unnatural love.Humberts unnatural love in Lolita is purpose girls too young for him, he works hard detaching himself from society thinking about Lolita and not conscious that he is possessed by thoughts about her. A similar thing happens to Grenouille in Perfume, he detaches once again himself from society for society, in other words his aim to reach the goal of the perfect scent is to satisfy societys outlook on him and to fit in it as well. He becomes obsessed unknowingly, but because his obsession is so twisted and odd, society views him as someone who is different.Finally in Obsession, Anonymous is unaware that her love for her lover is pushing him farther instead of closer. In all these literature works, one thing they have in leafy vegetable is that their obsession hurts others as well as themselves physically and emotionally and they are unconscious of it happening. Because of that, the characters suffer thinking that they are satisfying others but in reality, they are just hurting them which is opposite of what they wanted to do in the first place. Thus being unaware of the problem is worse than being conscious of it. In terms of obsession vs. ove, there isnt a major difference in the three characters because they all cannot distinguish between the two. However there is some kind of difference to when readers discover their unawareness. For example, Humbert only had obsession in his life since his first love in his life, and for Grenouille, it started when he realized people were abandoning him due to his lack of smell. Finally, for Anonymous, it all starts when her boyfriend leads her on and she falls for the trap of his invisible love. Obsession does not only exist in storybooks, but they also exist in the real world.Its happened to young kids, teenagers and adults. Lets face it, it has happened to the vast majority of everyone. First, learning that your inspiration is a person or object, and then loving them so much, one would do anything to fulfill their desire associated with them. Finally, obsession rises and nothing can stop their love for that person or object. For example, a Chinese pretender named Andy Lau had an obsessive fan. It seems nothing out of the ordinary but this particular obsessive fan had a father as a reporter and demanded to get a signature and photo from her favourite actor.However, when the father f ailed to do so, not only was he disappointed, but he was so disappointed and did not want to disappoint her daughter he committed suicide. The moral of the story the media judgement washes us into thinking that being the rich and the famous is the only goal in life thus why obsession exists today. Humbert, Grenouille and Anonymous are just like the daughter and father have an unawareness of their obsession with something or someone leads them to their downfall.The story also proves that an obsession of one person does not just affect themselves, it affects the people they care for and the people that they influence everyday. Works Cited Ackroyd, Peter. Patrick Suskind. contemporaneous literary Criticism. 1986. Adams, Robert M. Patrick Suskind. Contemporary Literary Criticism. 1986. Barber, Charles. The brain a mindless obsession. The Wilson Quarterly 32. 1 (Wntr 2008) 32(13). General OneFile. Gale. Markham Public Libraries (CELPLO). 26 whitethorn 2008 . Hayat, Marc. Psychoanaly sis Obsession. Large Print condense 24 May 2008 .Pifer, Ellen. His monster, his nymphet Nabokov and Mary Shelley. New York Cambridge University Press , 1999. Prescott, Peter S. Patrick Suskind. Contemporary Literary Criticism. 1986. Simon, Schama. Patrick Suskind. Contemporary Literary Criticism. 1986. Quin, John D.. Nabokovs World. New York Penguin Books, 1998. Updike, John. Patrick Suskind. Contemporary Literary Criticism. 1986. Annotated Bibliography Ackroyd, Peter. Patrick Suskind. Contemporary Literary Criticism. 1986. This author writes his opinion on Patrick Suskinds novel, Perfume.It is written in an encyclopaedia format where they brush up an authors works. In this critique he describes the setting and idea of Perfume that its a story about odour and the whole surprising fact that Jean-Baptiste Grenouille does not have a scent at all. I took a quote from this authors critique and it helped proved my point which was that Grenouilles obsession is so strong that it has a separate presence. It is relevant to my essay because my thesis is to prove that they are unaware of the characters obsessions. Hayat, Marc. Psychoanalysis Obsession. Large Print Press 24 May 2008 .The author is writing what the definition of obsession is in an online journal and article. Many people are not aware of what obsession is because everyone may have a different definition. However, society will always portray one definition of obsession so I took a quote that defined the way society viewed obsession. It is relevant to my essay because one of my arguments is obsession vs. love. Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher. Nabokovs World. New York Penguin Books, 1998. Christopher Lehmann-Haupt wrote a very long and intriguing critique on Perfume, however I found no use for it.It talked a lot about how we feel sympathy for Grenouilles character because he was born destined to have no scent and to ultimately be a killer. It didnt really help me because it didnt support my thesis nor any o f my arguments. Pifer, Ellen. His monster, his nymphet Nabokov and Mary Shelley. New York Cambridge University Press , 1999. This author compares the monster in Mary Shelleys book Frankenstein to Vladimir Nabokovs novel Lolita. In the comparison, she describes Humbert indirectly as a person who may be questionable about his love for Lolita. He almost describes her like an object or wolf in the quote I found.It is relevant to my essay because it fits right in to my argument of obsession vs. love and whether or not he knows the line between it. Quin, John D.. Nabokovs World. New York Penguin Books, 1998. This author talked a lot about Humberts obsession with nymphets. He talked about Humberts feelings when he went and contumacious to kill Lolitas other lover. I took a quote from it which draw how far Humbert was willing to go for love. This source is relevant to my essay because it shows the unnatural obsession of Humbert which is again one of my arguments.