Love is an integral part of life and the human experience, which shapes one’s perspective of the world. Love is not just romantic, but can also be seen as love for a craft or a passion and motivation to complete a goal. In the Alchemist, love is often referred to as “the language of the world”. Love is a motivator for many people to follow their dreams. But for many, this language of love can often be ignored, which leads people to have less faith in themselves and give up on their dreams. At many points in Santiago’s life he struggled with listening to the language of the world, but by the end of the book he truly embraced love and its language, which helped him find the resolve and courage that was already in him, to complete his personal …show more content…
This love was worldly and stagnant, which would have kept Santiago from pursuing his personal legend. This type of love can be seen as the world’s greatest. Santiago may believe it is his fate to become a wealthy shepard with a large herd and marry the merchant's daughter. But he soon learns what love really is when he speaks with Melchizedek. Melchizedek introduces Santiago to the idea of the spirit of the world, a personal legend and the world’s greatest lie. These concepts of life help introduce Santiago to true love, which is the language of the world, by opening his eyes to new opportunities and goals. This reveals that he is not defined by his stature in society or by the opinions of others, but by his personal legend. This motivates Santiago to pursue his personal legend, which leads him closer to finding the meaning of the language of the world. Although Santiago has yet to fully experience the language of the world, he slowly realizes what it is with his time with the crystal merchant. At first, Santiago thinks love is very simplistic and based off of his worth to …show more content…
The merchant is unwilling to take the risk, but Santiago retorts with his own experiences of taking risks. “When I took my sheep through the fields, some of them might have died if we had come upon a snake. But that’s the way life is with sheep and with shepherds (54). Even though Santiago was not aware of it, he has been listening to the language of the world as he has been taking risks his whole life. Now with his new found purpose in life he has now become much more aware of this and continues to take risks with the crystal merchant which made the crystal merchant aware of life yet he was still too scared to take risks yet still pushed Santiago to complete his personal legend by going to Egypt which continued his journey of learning and experiencing the language of the world. In the final stretch of Santiago’s journey, he must travel across the desert in a caravan. As he traveled with this caravan he became more and more aware of the world around him, which furthered his understanding of the language of the world. He eventually arrived with the caravan to an oasis, which was where his journey for true love and understanding of the language of the world became very
Upon arriving they said they would stay at the oasis until it was safe to cross the desert. A camel driver tells Santiago that, “There are rumors of tribal wars” (The Alchemist 80). When entering the oasis they had to hand over their arms and stay in tents with locals and fellow travelers. During his short time at the oasis Santiago experiences love at first sight with a girl named Fatima. As the war drags on Santiago tells Fatima about his personal legend and she encourages him to continue on to Egypt. Although she has been waiting for him her entire life she still insisted that he achieve his personal legend. She said if they are meant to be together they will meet again one day. Then Santiago left the oasis with the Alchemist towards the pyramids. Through this he realizes that each challenge he faces on the way to his destination forms part of God's
Curious, courageous, young, adventurous: these are all words to describe Santiago, the protagonist in the novel The Alchemist. In this novel, Paulo Coelho develops Santiago’s character as a young boy who goes on an adventure to find his life’s purpose. Through the hero’s journey, Paulo Coelho insists that both internal and external struggles often cannot stop people from achieving their goals, ultimately encouraging people to fulfill self discovery and understand who they truly are.
In The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho an Andalusian boy named Santiago leaves Spain to travel to Egypt in order to achieve his Personal Legend. During his journey he meets four people, a Gypsy, a King named Melchizedek, an Englishman and an Alchemist, all of whom help Santiago along his journey towards his Personal Legend. However, only the King and the Alchemist teach Santiago lessons that he can learn from and use along his journey. The King teaches Santiago two lessons, to follow omens and that it is not always about the destination but that it is also about the journey. The Alchemist teaches Santiago to listen to his heart for guidance, what the Language of the World is and what the Soul of the World is. He eventually arrives in Egypt after
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He notices the book was so strange because it talked about the mercury, salt, dragon, and king. However, there was one idea that all things are the manifestation of one thing only. It also contains the most important text in the literature of an alchemy contained only a few lines, and had been recorded on the surfaces of an emerald. The book that attracts Santiago interest was the stories about the famous alchemists that dedicated their entry lives to purifying metals. The alchemist believed if a metal were heated for many years, it would free and became individual properties. Since the languages with which all things communicated, the soul of the world allowed them to understand anything on earth. They called that discovery the master work. The boy learned that the master works consist with two parts, which is the liquid portion knows as the Elixir of Life, which use to cure an illness and kept the alchemist from getting older. While the others is solid parts is called the Philosopher’s stone. It was an important thing to turn any metal into gold. Santiago became more excited to learn in alchemy when he heard about gold. Unfortunately he became lost, when he wanted to learns how to achieve the master
Santiago thinks about the beautiful merchant's daughter. He imagines explaining to her why he knows.....
"Often in literature a character has a decision of which "path" to choose. Explain how a character in the book your read deals with this type of decision/conflict."
Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist is a story about a young shepherd who goes on a journey to the Great pyramids in Egypt in search of treasure to fulfil his personal legend. The boy meets people along the way who either help or hinder his ability to achieve his dreams. Through the contrasting views of The Crystal Merchant and the Englishman Santiago learns that many people pursue their personal legends only in their minds and that they all influenced Santiago’s personal legend; as a result of the characters’ outlook on life, Coelho conveys that everyone pursues their dreams either in life, or in their imagination, or through books.
There are countless heroes throughout literature. Their stories are all timeless and meaningful. The Alchemist, written by Paulo Coelho, is home to one of these heroes with an incredible quest. Interestingly, it is quite common to see quests and journeys throughout all literature. In the Alchemist, the protagonist, Santiago, goes through many stages of being a hero such as, call to adventure, refusal of the call, supernatural aid, crossing the threshold, and road of trials. Santiago clearly demonstrates all these stages throughout the entire novel.
Have you ever encountered problems while trying to fulfill a goal in your life? In the book The Alchemist, written by Paulo Coelho, a shepherd boy named Santiago overcomes obstacles to reach his personal legend. Throughout the book Santiago encounters many friends to help him fulfill his destiny. Santiago encounters many problems throughout the story. He overcomes them with the help of his friends and his wife-to-be. These problems shape Santiago into a dignified man of many traits.
The Theme of “The Alchemist,” by Paulo Coelho is, always follow your dreams and listen to your heart. At the start of the novel Santiago does not know what he should do when he is confronted by his dream. But by the end of the novel Santiago completely trusts his heart to guide him though life. Santiago’s story shows him learning and living out the theme of the novel.
The Alchemist conveyed the up-most truthful meaning of santiago’s personal legend by teaching him the soul of the earth. This stage helped santiago and the Alchemist are talking doing what your personal legend is and also doing exactly what your personal legend desires are when they speak in terms of listening to one’s heart. “Whenever your heart is, that is where you’ll find your treasure. Santiago takes initiative on his dreams and pursue them regardless of love affairs and the hurt that comes along with it. The stage encouraged and also motivated santiago to find his treasure and make a better life for fatima and
Which makes him understand that it is his fear that is getting in his way and if he wants to succeed he can't be scared. Further, when the Alchemist and Santiago talked, the Alchemist explained that “every person on earth plays a central role”(Coelho 163). This teaches Santiago that even as a shepherd he is important, and it is important to know the questions of life. In addition, the Alchemist opens Santiago’s eyes and teaches him that wherever his treasure is, he “will also find your heart” (Coelho
How many people in the world actually pursue their dreams? Very few do, and even less actually achieve. In the novel The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, this theme of pursuing one's dreams and destiny is everywhere. In the beginning, the main character, Santiago, a shepherd roaming Spain, meets an old man named Melchizadek who tells him about his personal legend and convinces him to go after the recurring treasure in his dreams in return for 1/10th of his sheep. Then, as the boy sets off on his journey, he encounters many obstacles: being robbed, interpreting omens, and having his life threatened.
In today's society most marriages have different perspectives of an ideal marriage. Some married couples are totally faithful, honest and respectful to one other, meaning the wife and the husband are together and living happy in there married life, other married couples may tend to cheat and disrespect each other, meaning that the married couple are not together or are separated may be there opinion of the ideal marriage. In the medieval period Chaucer, writes to his audience the ideal of marriage in his stories. In Chaucer's Canterbury Tales he explains the medieval way of a ideal marriage In "The Wife's and Bath's Tale" and "The Franklin's Tale" suggest there own opinion on how a ideal marriage should be. In "The Wife's of Bath's Tale it suggest that a ideal marriage should be that the wife should have total master of her husband. In "The Franklin's Tale a ideal marriage is that the husband and wife should be faithful and honest to each other. These two tales suggest two different aspects of an ideal marriage.