Looking for Love in Brideshead Revisited

Looking for Love Throughout the story Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh, the theme of peeping for love becomes distinctly plain through almost wholly of the characters actions. The attempt for love is of the utmost importance, whether the characters realize it or not. This is particularly the case for Charles, Julia, and Cordelia. As the narrator of the novel, the reader gains the most insight into Charles face. He is cautiously sanguine that love exit be found, possibly even in his occasional escapades.I went in that location uncertainly, for it was foreign ground and there was a tiny, priggish, warning joint in my ear which in the tones of Collins told me it was seemly to hold back. merely I was in count of love in those days, and I went bounteous of curiosity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at stomach, I should find that let loose door in the wall, which others, I knew had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden, w hich was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city. (p. 26) We first meet Sebastian, whom Charles refers to as, the forerunner for all his afterlife relationships. Later we meet Celia, who is too busy with her friends and promoting Charles art to develop a fully formed romantic relationship with him. Finally, we get to know Julia, who has the latent to be a true soul-mate for Charles but the say-so goes unfulfilled collectible to Charles agnosticism compared to Julias reawakened Catholicism with the advent of her fathers credenza of the sacraments on his deathbed.Julias search for love is first made apparent to the reader when she initially meets Charles at the railway station. She had made a soaked little picture of the kind of man who would do and she was in search of him when she met me at the railway station. I was not her man. She told me as much, without a word, when she took the rear from my lips (p. 170-171). This shows that even at a u nripened age Julia was in search of love.Her first experience with love was Rex Mottram, who had the outward style of a potential companion for her, but in the end lacked substance. From Rex she moved on to Charles, who seemed to be the perfect match, but their chemistry and compatibility could not overcome Charles lack of faith and Julias Catholic fears of sin and punishment. Finally there is Cordelia who has, throughout her life, struggled to line up to either the secular foundation or the world of religion there are people who cant quite fit in either to the world or the monastic rule. I suppose Im something of the sort myself. (p. 288). During this struggle she is all the while searching for the love and acceptance of her God. As a young child she was very religious often acting with her own strike out of piousness Its a new thing that a priest started last term. You send five bob to some nuns in Africa and they christen a baby and name her after you. I have got six caust ic Cordelias.Isnt that lovely? (p. 84-85) As an adult Cordelia flirts with entering a convent and eventually ends up luck as a nurse, both vocations that could be seen as serving God. These three are just a small sample of the legion(predicate) characters who contribute to the overarching theme of the search for love in Brideshead Revisited. In the end, the novel leaves the reader enthralled but still wondering when love will triumph and the main characters will find the inner peace they clearly long for.