Relationship between Man and Nature in Paulo Coelho’s Alchemist: An Ecocriticial Study (2025)

Ecocritical Approach to Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist

Research Journal of English Language and Literature (RJELAL), 2016

The Brazilian author Paulo Coelho is one of the most read writers today. Most of Coelho's works are replete with nature portrayal and beautiful landscapes that a normal man may fail to perceive through his naked eyes. Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist is the best novel to present ecocritical elements in literature and their interconnectedness. The novel is nature oriented and beckons humanity to go back to nature to preserve and protect the environment. Environment has been fundamental to our tradition and culture. It's only in the past decade or two that environmental literature has become a main stream. There is a growing demand to protect and preserve the environment. The rise of the concepts like go green, green policy, environment market, carbon trading, etc., have been entering human day today life. Ecocriticism is a recent phenomenon in the area of theory and criticism which represents a growing awareness of environmental issues. It is based on an "earth centered approach to literary studies" and reveals that human culture is connected to the physical world, affecting it and affected by it. It is concerned with the relationships between literature and environment or man's relationships with his physical environment as reflected in literature. Hence, Ecocriticism, the growing critical theory, is an investigation into the relation between humans and the natural world in literature.

A STUDY ON ECOCRITICISM: A BRIDGE BETWEEN MAN AND NATURE

NATURE AS A GOOD MORAL: CONTRIBUTIONS FOR HUMAN ECOLOGY- LA NATURALEZA COMO UN BIEN MORAL: APORTES PARA UNA ECOLOGÍA HUMANA

To think of a relationship in which the harmony between man and the environment prevails, and not a continuous confrontation, is equivalent to think of a human ecology. This relationship will only be possible if individuals and communities reflect on whether interdependence with nature and attribute a moral value to the way in which their actions affect or benefit to the environment and to themselves. That education and educators enhance the skills with moral which individuals adjust their behaviors, represents an important step for the awareness of the human and natural environments, since the principle of ecological action would not be determined by factors external to the subject, but that would depend on the moral capacity that this has and therefore of your personal will, which makes the action even more significant and full of meaning that when it arises from another social dimension. Resumen Pensar una relación en la que prevalezca la armonía entre el hombre y el medio ambiente, y no una confrontación continúa, equivale a pensar una ecología humana. Esta relación solo será posible, si las personas y las comunidades reflexionan acerca de si interdependencia con la naturaleza y atribuyen un valor moral al modo en que sus acciones afectan o benefician al ambiente y a sí mismos. Que la educación y los educadores potencien las habilidades morales con las que los individuos ajustan sus conductas, representa un paso importante para el cuidado de los ambientes humanos y naturales, ya que el principio de la acción ecológica no estaría determinado por factores externos al sujeto, sino que dependería de la capacidad moral que este tiene y por tanto de su voluntad personal, lo cual hace que la acción sea aún más significativa y plena de sentido que cuando surge desde otra dimensión social.

NATURE AS A GOOD MORAL -CONTRIBUTIONS FOR HUMAN ECOLOGY LA NATURALEZA COMO UN BIEN MORAL -APORTES PARA UNA ECOLOGÍA HUMANA NATUREZA COMO UM BEM MORAL -CONTRIBUIÇÕES PARA ECOLOGIA HUMANA

To think of a relationship in which the harmony between man and the environment prevails, and not a continuous confrontation, is equivalent to think of a human ecology. This relationship will only be possible if individuals and communities reflect on whether interdependence with nature and attribute a moral value to the way in which their actions affect or benefit to the environment and to themselves. That education and educators enhance the skills with moral which individuals adjust their behaviors, represents an important step for the awareness of the human and natural environments, since the principle of ecological action would not be determined by factors external to the subject, but that would depend on the moral capacity that this has and therefore of your personal will, which makes the action even more significant and full of meaning that when it arises from another social dimension. Resumen Pensar una relación en la que prevalezca la armonía entre el hombre y el medio ambiente, y no una confrontación continúa, equivale a pensar una ecología humana. Esta relación solo será posible, si las personas y las comunidades reflexionan acerca de si interdependencia con la naturaleza y atribuyen un valor moral al modo en que sus acciones afectan o benefician al ambiente y a sí mismos. Que la educación y los educadores potencien las habilidades morales con las que los individuos ajustan sus conductas, representa un paso importante para el cuidado de los ambientes humanos y naturales, ya que el principio de la acción ecológica no estaría determinado por factores externos al sujeto, sino que dependería de la capacidad moral que este tiene y por tanto de su voluntad personal, lo cual hace que la acción sea aún más significativa y plena de sentido que cuando surge desde otra dimensión social.

Multi-disciplinary dimensions in Paulo Coelho’s Novel The Alchemist

Journal of Literature Culture and Media Studies, 2012

This paper analyses how Paulo Coelho portrays the theme of The Alchemist -how to achieve one's vision of lifethrough apt handling of his vast knowledge in various disciplines namely History, Geography, Philosophy, Theology, Psychology and Mythology. The abstract and concrete symbols of the novel which can be categorised under the above mentioned disciplines are meticulously analysed to show the novelist's acumen in establishing the strong bond between the man and the universe. This bond and the subsequent interdependence help to satiate the quest and the deep-rooted desires of the individual.

THE HUMAN WORLD (Atena Editora)

THE HUMAN WORLD (Atena Editora), 2023

The article reflects on the idea of humanizing the world and naturalizing the human. We reflected on the elaboration of proposals for the construction of an environmental Ethos that allows taking care of the Earth. Starting from the anthropological theory about how indigenous natives of Brazil understand the relationship between human beings and the world through the culture-nature duality. The philosophical incursion is based on the notion of caring for the environment and on the possible paths for this care based on the referrals and responses of Environmental Psychology as an area of Psychology that is dedicated to the study of the Person-Environment relationship.

Human Ecology: nature as archetypal deity

Revista Ártemis, 2018

The term nature, in a broad sense, refers to the phenomena of the physical world and life in general. Complex are their definitions, involving qualities of essentiality, origin, spontaneity, and everything that was not directly manipulated or produced by human action, including the universe itself. Taking into account that the sciences in their entirety have developed through their observation, the objective of this study is to promote the worldview of nature as a foundation for human self-knowledge, since according to the conception of human ecology, humans are conceived as an indivisible part of their environment. Faced with the current ecological constraints, the proposal is justified, above all, by the need to reconnect man with nature in a superficial and deep sense. For that, we used the theoretical revision method (especially conceptual contributions of Arne Naess and Carl Gustav Jung) and Aristotelian deductive thinking to reach the proposed reflections. The results suggest man as being indivisible from nature, reigned by forces, tendencies, instincts, and cycles similar to those of the natural environment. From natural contemplation it is believed possible to formulate deep understandings of human nature, be they biological, psychological or spiritual.

Ecosophy and the relationship between man and nature in contemporaneity

2020

Among its functions, Philosophy allows us to understand reality and, in view of today's environmental issues, Ecosophy consists of the study of the relationship between nature and human beings, proposing discussions between the environment, man and social relations in modern times. This work aims to reflect on the relationship of man with the environment through the principles of Ecosophy. The Ecosophy proposed by Guattari (2009) addresses our understanding, as part of the environment in which we live, and how we learn and act on the environmental issue, based on the three ecologies: that of the environment, that of social relations and that of human (mental) subjectivity. Thus, it is possible to understand that Ecosophy is more than a reflection on ecology, nature and man-nature relationship, it is a search forconcrete actions, taking into account man's interaction with the environment. In this way, Ecosophy stimulates a broad environmental awareness, making it possible to extract from the field of learning and knowledge the potential to become capable of understanding what our planet needs and reviewing our actions.

The quest for the fulfillment of Destiny: A study on Santiago in Paulo Coelho's "Alchemist."

International Journal of Computer Engineering in Research Trends, 2018

This paper examines the quest for fulfillment of Destiny as it is presented in the book “Alchemist” written by Paulo Coelho. The modern thinkers explain the concept of human Destiny as self-transcendence. The paper focuses on a theological endeavor within the tradition which Santiago, the protagonist of the book follows. The ethnocentric understanding of human nature is the belief that man was created as of the image of God. Therefore, human life will also be followed and reached to the Destiny in the fruitful relationship. The life of Santiago itself reveals how Paulo Coelho imagines the quest of the human being for achieving the fortune of his expectation

Nature versus Human Nature: Exploration in Ecocritical Perspective

2015

Nature is a foreground of ideological and aesthetic conception, but human nature applications of existential and scientific revolution in every field. Here, In the face of globalization, Nature is more affected. Literature and cinema directs the people to right way and preserve equal justice to the nonhuman world. The subject of both movies is representation of environmental ground matters which is designed the view from the ground up; substances of aesthetically, conceptually, and ideologically. The paper explores the relationship of Human and Nature in Pandora and Titanic ship. In Avatar, director was sharing his view that the life of a great tree is more important than the life of the average Concordant. The tree's fate is both a stereotypical for shadowing of the blasting of their hopes soon after and a slightly more subtle anticipation of director's later mutilation. In Titanic, narrative is twisted by the interplay between outer landscape and the storyteller's inte...