The Alchemist Archetype

The third and fourth obstacle Santiago faces is his fear of defeat and realizing his dream. For example, “They made him continue digging, but he found nothing. As the sun rose, the men began to beat the boy. He was bruised and bleeding, his clothes torn to shreds, and he felt death was near.” The obstacle he defeated was the fear of defeat people will meet on the journey to fulfilling our destiny. People have to be patient in difficult times and know that the universe is conspiring in our favor, even if some do not know. Santiago had patience and allowed the men to beat him. Because of his patience they eventually left him alone

In Santiago’s journey to achieving his Personal Legend, he faces multiple situations where he has to choose one over the other.

It describes the typical adventure of the archetype known as The Hero, the person who goes out and achieves great deeds on behalf of the group, tribe, or civilization.” The 12 stages of this are ‘the ordinary world’, ‘the call to adventure’, ‘refusal of the call’, ‘meeting with the mentor’, ‘crossing the threshold’, ‘tests, allies and enemies’, ‘approach’, ‘the ordeal’, ‘the reward’, ‘the road back’, ‘the resurrection’ and finally ‘return with the

Aspects such as abnormality, the visits to the supernatural world, and greater knowledge gain than original expected of the epic hero archetype guide the reader through this story. Leading them to realize that without understanding the dangers of something irreversible mistakes may be made and yet at the same time wisdom allows for innovation and progress to

The alchemist is a well written book that accurately describes every concept about life and explains it through a story. The Alchemist is a book about a shepherd named Santiago, who discovers his personal legend and receives help from others to help achieve his Personal Legend and learns many major life lessons along the way. Santiago gets advice that when life puts him down, keep getting back up and to focus on the task at hand, which is Santiago’s own personal legend. Along the the journey, Santiago receives help from many different characters but only three characters who helped him the most throughout his quest for his Personal legend is the alchemist, the Old King and the Englishman. The best advice a reader is able to gain from this story is the advice the the Old King taught Santiago, which is” there is only one thing that makes achieving a dream impossible to achieve, the fear of failure” which means is to never be afraid of failures and to follow your own path God has laid out for you because if you are too afraid to pursue your personal legend, meaning if people are too afraid to take risks to make their own life better than it already is now, then they will not have the opportunity to accomplish their own goals. In Coelho's The Alchemist, Santiago learns the Soul of the World through experience, patience, time and help from the Old King, the Englishman and the alchemist.

The “Hero’s Journey” as founded by Joseph Campbell, can be detected in numerous works of literature including Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, and even in lives of the authors themselves. Ultimately, everyone’s lives are hero’s journeys, including Hemingway himself. Campbell’s “Hero’s Journey” is a way to categorize similar concepts in literature to help classify parts of the story. There are six main phases of the “Hero’s Journey”: the call to action, the answering of the call, the threshold guardians, the crossing of the threshold, the dragon battle and the master of two worlds. The call to action is the invitation the protagonist receives from someone or something to venture into the unknown. The protagonist likely

In the novel, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho throughout Santiago’s long adventurous journey he meets people that change the script in his play of life. When a shepherd named Santiago was on his way to meet the beautiful merchant’s daughter, he is confronted by a king who directs him to his personal legend. Santiago decides to pursue his journey to find his personal legend and meets many important characters along the way. Santiago was destined to meet these certain characters such as the crystal merchant, Fatima, and the King of Salem so they can reflect on one another’s lives and through finding their own personal legends they help redirect his.

Beginning with his voyage, he receives a Call to Adventure that is the “call” the hero receives in order to begin his or her journey. Santiago receives it while sleeping during a normal, peaceful day in his homeland, Andalucia. In his case, he undergoes an extraneous dream in which a child transports him to the eminent Egypt. Trying to analyze the dream, he remembers: “the child took me by both hands and transported me to the Egyptian pyramids”(13). Determined to seek for information, he consults a Gypsy that advises him to find it with the condition of receiving ten percent when he returns. After reflecting on the possibilities of its

Santiago is a shepherd boy who finds enough courage in himself to follow his heart and his long awaiting dream. Santiago is conflicted between either to follow is heart or his mind. He acknowledges that if he follows his mind and becomes a shepherd boy for the rest of this life the agonizing pain of “What if...” would haunt him for the rest of his existence. However if he follows his heart then the question of “What if….’ would be answered and he would realize the fate of his future. The Alchemist "The fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself... no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams. 134 Santiago is torn between taking risks or staying safe, he is frightened that if he takes a risk than he will suffer.

The Alchemist The Alchemist is a novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho, which utilizes the full cycle of the Hero’s Journey and uses omens to symbolize it. Everyone experiences the journey of a hero, which is the common template of a timeline/plot in which a hero is transformed after a battle of self discovery. The fiction novel also brings light to the many abstract themes/motifs the book has to offer. For example, omens are one of the main concepts that are revealed throughout the journey.

Every individual’s life is a journey that contains many different stages that one must pass through to gain the experience he needs to grow wiser and ultimately become who he truly is. This type of journey is portrayed in both Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha, and Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist, where both protagonists go through life and learn lessons on the way, each with a similar idea of finding one’s self. Siddhartha is going through life to find self-fulfillment, while Santiago is trying to obtain his personal legend. Both novels portray these stories using an array of archetypes, At the beginning of both novels, although Siddhartha and Santiago are shown to be strong individuals, who are motivated to embark on their journey and finish their

The author of ¨The Old Man and the Sea¨, Ernest Hemingway, created his central character Santiago as a ¨Code Hero¨ to personify courage, endurance, and friendship. Santiago was a rare character who demonstrated the distinguishing feature of courage when he decided to go out of his ways to go fishing during a real bad weather at sea. Santiago was a unique individual who through his actions demonstrated endurance when he committed to catch a big fish knowing that he didn't have a lot of line left. It was either him or the fish that had to go. Santiago also clearly expressed his one of a kind character through his loyal friendship with Manolin. A friendship that helped Santiago get by with life challenges. Santiago demonstrated the greatest example

The alchemist: A man who resides in Al-Fayoum Oasis. He possesses a powerful magic and saves lives because he sees through to the soul of the world. He is the one who points the direction of the treasure to Santiago.

Whether it was a journey across thousands of miles of land in, Santiago’s case, or whether it be a journey that stayed within one city, in Christopher’s case, both characters discovered things about themselves that they had never known or never would have known if it wasn’t without the journey. Through Santiago’s journey he was able to learn the powers of hard work and fulfilling his Personal Legend. Christopher was able to find new senses of self confidence and independence through his journey. Both novels, The Alchemist and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, could be summed up as journeys of self discovery for the

Although he is shown as inexperienced before his journey, Santiago becomes responsible and brave while learning the meaning of the world. During this journey, the people Santiago comes across instill knowledge in him and encourage him to develop a courageous attitude. One of the motivating people he meets is Melchizedek, an old man who tells Santiago that his Personal Legend is to visit