Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote in his book The Brothers Karamazov: “Love in action is a harsh and terrible thing compared to love in dreams” (“L 'love "). This quote shows that love is not as sweet as it seems in real life. To love, one must be willing to suffer and be able to face conflicts and trials. Love is an emotion that is mostly divided into two types: compassionate love and passionate love. Passionate love is an intense feeling of love toward another person and is sometimes called infatuation, heartache, romantic love, or obsessive love. Psychologist Elaine Hatfield defines passionate love as "a complex functional whole comprising evaluations, subjective feelings, expressions, structured physiological processes, action tendencies, and instrumental behaviors." It includes powerful feelings and sexual attraction, while compassionate love includes feelings of trust, respect and affection. Passionate love can be terrible and dreadful because it can lead to jealousy and unrequited love can lead to discouragement. This can be seen through the novels Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte and Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. In the works examined, passionate love causes depression in the characters, leads to revenge, and causes conflict within families. First, passionate love causes emotional suffering and depression. Passionate love and depression are interconnected. Often a person expects their lover to reciprocate. When a person cannot get love from the one they love or encounters unrequited love, they may feel very discouraged. Patricia Bass, who is a poet, wrote in an online magazine about depression middle of paper...... Action is a hard and terrible thing. "Love in Action Is a Hard and Dreadful Thing Co... - Tribe.net Tribe, June 18, 2005. Web May 15, 2011. Paisley, Brad and Alison Krauss. “Whiskey Lullaby.” By Bill Anderson and Jon Randall Mud on the Tires, 2003. CD. Theory/Conflict Theory - Wikibooks, Open Books for an Open World." Wikibooks. nd Web. May 15, 2011. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Dir. Ken Kwapis, Debra Martin Chase, Denise Di Novi, Andrew A. Kosove and Broderick Johnson. By Ann Brashares. Screenplay by Delia Ephron and Elizabeth Chandler, Blake Lively, Alexis Bledel and America Ferrera., 2005. DVD. Warner, C. Terry and Terrance D. Olson. Another view of family conflicts and the entire family. "Family Relations 30.4 (1981): 493-503. National Family Relations Council. nd Web. May 16 2011.