CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
A. Background of the Study
A man has a power to bring his destiny into reality, but they always encounter two difficult choices. The two difficult choices are first, choosing to
live where he is to be, means a life that he undergoes as usual with all achievements and privileges they reached. Second, something that he wants to
fulfill, that is a dream, desires, destiny, which must reached with sacrifice. The Alchemist also introduces the third instrument to get knowledge
that is intuition. Some civilizations and western scientists do not accept it as an epistemological instrument besides brain and five senses. However, The
Alchemist emphasizes that intuition has function that is more essential than other instruments in the epistemological realm. This novel describes that
intuition is a sudden immersion of the soul in the universal current of life, where the history of all people interconnected, because it’s been written by
God. Man is the culmination of evolution from things do not live, move,
reproduce, and which end in the rational man who lives, moves and reproduces. In addition, in the same time he becomes the closest creature to
the Creator. Furthermore, this novel explores about the essence of man. The man is the wind, the desert, the ocean, the stars and everything created in the
universe. The human is the representation of creating microcosm, in the human’s inside, it can be found all aspect of the dead thing and the living
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thing created by God, such as the material aspect, the plant aspect, the animal aspect, and the most essential is the human aspect, that is to say that human is
microcosm.
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This novel explores – unless gives the good information- every part of creature in this world has a soul, like a stone, animal, sun, land, water, and so
on. However, every single of the object in this universe always transform, because universe including this earth is alive and has a soul.
Based on the explanation above, the writer thinks that a theme of human essence, which becomes the core of the message showed in the novel,
is going to be very interesting to be analyzed, discussed, and studied in the midst of human metaphysic bareness in the west literary world.
B. Focus of the Research
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