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"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 …

…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**