![]() ![]() ![]() The subject of love inspires a beautiful lyricism in Coelho’s writing: As Coelho explains, when we love, we always try to improve ourselves, and that’s when everything is possible. In the desert, Santiago meets his “twin-soul” and discovers that love is the core of existence and creation. Austen in “ Mansfield Park“, and Shakespeare in “ King Lear“. The “wilderness” is a symbol that has been used by many great writers e.g. It is also symbolic that Santiago finds his soul-mate, and the secrets of wisdom in the wilderness of the desert. ![]() Perhaps this is the secret of Coelho’s success: that he tells people what they want to hear, or rather that he tells them that what they wish for but never thought possible could even be probable.Ĭonsequently, is Coelho suggesting that the alchemist found God while searching for the elixir of life and the philosopher’s stone? What is certain is that the symbolism of the text is a parallel to the symbolism and the symbolic language of alchemism, and similarly the symbolism of dreams is presented as “God’s language”. And isn’t it true that the whole of humankind desperately wants to believe the old king when he says that the greatest lie in the world is that at some point we lose the ability to control our lives, and become the pawns of fate. This is the core of the novel’s philosophy and a motif that echoes behind Coelho’s writing all through “ The Alchemist“. That may sound like an oversimplified version of new-age philosophy and mysticism, but as Coelho states “simple things are the most valuable and only wise people appreciate them”.Īs the alchemist himself says, when he appears to Santiago in the form of an old king “when you really want something to happen, the whole universe conspires so that your wish comes true”. “ The Alchemist“, is an exciting novel that bursts with optimism it is the kind of novel that tells you that everything is possible as long as you really want it to happen. ![]()
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