The Alchemist

Introduction

All our inhabits images, videos, radio, television, and books have influenced us, and all have been biased in some manner. Texts are prejudiced by what time span they have been made in, a movie made in the 70's would be adversely influenced by the Vietnam War. Anovel in writing by an Australian about World conflict Two would be discriminatory against the Japanese and the Germans among others who were furthermore engaged in the confrontation but where on the other side. The innovative that Yr 12 Saint Augustine scholars, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho is no different and is furthermore subjective.

Discussion

The notion of Romanticism began in the eighteenth years as a reaction to the superior philosophy for most of that years, this was Realism. Romanticism includes ideals such as change, one-by-one approach, exploring new reaches, focus on sentiments, emotions, one-by-one thought rather than of a collective, love of environment and rejection of traditional ways. Impulsiveness and risk taking as well as little care for cash.

All of these ideals are present in the Alchemist through the thoughts, outlooks and activities of the boy the book is centralised on, Santiago. A common style of writing a novel is to develop the plot of the story but Coelho has used a less common method of developing the character rather than the plot. Sure the contrive continues to augment but not at the rate of understanding of the character and revealing of the thinking method of the major character(s) such as Santiago. As was said before, this publication apparently shows a predominantly loving disposition and the most conspicuous of these is change. But to have a full comprehending of the two opposing beliefs, we should state what realism is. The fundamentals of the realist beliefs is change, not taking any dangers, planning, ordered methodical conceiving, survival and cash and power

In Coelho's innovative, The Alchemist, Santiago said (Power issue Slide for extract 2) "it was a pleasing change from talking to his sheep" Why is change linked to the romanticism only? Surely functional, methodical persons also worth change for the logical cause of survival and profit? If the enterprises of today conducted advocating and utilised the technologies of the 1900's they would effortlessly proceed bankrupt in today's up to date humanity of advocating and competition. This is the truth of enterprise; if the business is not up to date then they will be lost so caution should be taken and planning. There are many characters that are dismissed or silenced who are realistic.

The first plainly clear-cut realist that is contacted is the 'King of Salem" On sheet 19 Coelho writes ' "This an significant publication, but it's actually annoying" The Boy was shocked. The old man knows how to read, and had already read the book. And if the publication was annoying, as the vintage man said, the boy still had time to change it. 'This displays Santiago to be very sensible himself. Santiago doesn't desire to change; he doesn't desire to be annoyed ...