"Love is the parent of illusion, and the child of disillusion. " observed Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo, a Spanish philosopher and author. His statement was a very keen one, indeed. Love, among other things, has distracted people through the ages. Everyone is blinded by things in their life; then, when they finally are confronted with the undeniable facts, they are disenchanted. In the novel Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë, characters went through this process of …showed first 75 words of 2462 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2462 total…of constant disillusionment of all kinds, it's is hard to find the kind of idealist that Wuthering Height and Return of the Native each began with having; by the ends of each story, it is easy to see why. It is a sort of sad ! concept: that dreamers are ultimately punished by the very quality that made them. Love usually starts it all. Love creates fantastic fallacies that disappoint when hope is extinguished. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**