By the time love begins to take clearer shape in Brideshead Revisited, it has already been announced, tested, and wounded. That preparation has a name. Sebastian Flyte. Before Julia becomes the object of Charles Ryder’s desire, Sebastian is the one who opens the world of Brideshead, the one through whom Charles first learns what it means to love — and what it costs to love something fragile. If Julia will later represent love resisted,Sebastian is love given — and broken