Pale Fire: A Magazine in 12 Projects Group Three | Page 57

This quote reveals evidence of
quite a few concepts that we
have studied in our class. In
the house that Kinbote is
renting from the Goldsworths,
he notes that there is a pic-
ture with the Goldsworth’s
parents, looking as if their
genders have been reversed.
This follows that theme that
gender
is
rather
fluid
throughout the entire novel,
suggesting that characters,
no matter their identification,
may be the same person. Also,
Image 1
Kinbote states that Mrs. G
“In the study I found a large
looks
picture of their parents, with
like
Malenkov,
who
turns out to be the Soviet poli-
sexes reversed, Mrs. G. resem-
tician that succeeded Joseph
bling Malenkov, and Mr. G. a
Stalin in the 1950s. This relates
Medusa-locked hag, and this I
back to Nabokov’s Russian
replaced by the reproduction
roots and his exile from Rus-
of a beloved early Picasso:
sia which parallel’s the poten-
earth boy leading raincloud
tial of Kinbote being the ex-
horse” (83).
iled king from Zembla. Finally,
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