"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 change. The novel took place in England, and
             is the saga of two families and their doomed romantic intermingling. In the movie Return of the Native, there were similar situations where amorous endeavors are star-crossed. The characters, distracted by feelings of love, by their expectations of people, and by the simple fact that they are dreamers, were disillusioned when they are finally faced with reality.
             Marilyn French, an American author and critic, once said, "Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight. " Love has this incredible power and is possibly one of the most powerful forces man has ever known. When a person is in love, or thinks they are in love, they lose control. They become a servant to their emotions. The more in love a person is, the less aware of reality they become, because their whole world is this uphoric
             romance, which unfortunately, doesn't always last. When lovers become jilted or are torn apart by some twist of fate, they are forced out of the cozy asylum they have created for themselves. The results are often traumatic. The shell-shocked survivor of a broken heart is demoralized, sometimes beyond repair. As sad as it sounds, disillusionment resulting from a loss of love is tragically ordinary.
             Clym Yeobright, the native who returned in ...