kinbote

if you break down kinbote you get kin- family/relative and bote- a compensation or amends...
charles means "man"
man, family compensation...? a compensation for the loss of Hazel, only male? he's not much of one...

Final Essay...?

Well, I have been playing around with the idea of the Devil's Advocate with either Nabokov, Humbert, or Kinbote. Kinbote and Humbert stand as their own advocate, Nabokov as theirs...

Also, there's the idea of the personified Death/Destroyer figure...

And then there's the idea of Pale Fire, the poem and story, being a communication from the living to the dead. A kind of Prayer.

Nattochdag- night and day... kinbote and shade, kinbote/hazel and shade...

So, yeah. I have few ideas floating around.

Ooooh, new idea! Just got it during class. Gradus and "reality" who wears its quotes like a clause... yeah not too sure where this is going but there it is.