All 3 Uses of
disillusion
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- Do you know I've been sitting here thinking to myself: that if I didn't believe in life, if I lost faith in the woman I love, lost faith in the order of things, were convinced in fact that everything is a disorderly, damnable, and perhaps devil-ridden chaos, if I were struck by every horror of man's disillusionment—still I should want to live and, having once tasted of the cup, I would not turn away from it till I had drained it!†
Chpt 5
- But till I am thirty, I know that my youth will triumph over everything—every disillusionment, every disgust with life.†
Chpt 5
- "The talented young man, to whom I have referred already, Mr. Rakitin, characterized this heroine in brief and impressive terms: 'She was disillusioned early in life, deceived and ruined by a betrothed, who seduced and abandoned her.†
Chpt 12 *
Definition:
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(disillusion) disappoint by removal of false belief that something is better than it is