Alchemy

“The Alchemist” teaches readers something about the importance of self-discovery by taking us through the journey of a young shepherd, Santiago. The book espouses individuality as a means of achieving the ultimate goals of creation. Additionally, Paulo Coelho is expedient in telling Santiago's peregrination of selfhood through symbolism and metaphor. Initially, Coelho portrays Santiago's gain of self-knowledge with the use of allegory. When the author says, "The desert is a capricious lady, and…

4.0 Analytic Borderlands While cities, through some mix of magic, enchantment exert a magnetic attraction, the fascination is difficult to pin-down on any laboratory table, hence sorcery. Pushpa Arabindoo, from UCL Geography Department, summaries the enmeshed complications that arise for scholars who aspire to “a deeper ideological reflection borrowed from other disciplines”, noting plainly the challenge as “socializing urban design is not as easy as it seems” ! The urban economist, Saskia…

Flamel married Pernelle an intelligent widow who also happened to own a little property. It was a little odd back then for women regardless of their social class to own any property. The ancient practice of alchemy had travelled into to Europe from the Middle East on Arab trade routes. Alchemy was the forerunner to what we now know as modern chemistry. Nicholas Flamel is said to have be visited by an angel in a dream, translated the book of Abraham the Jew, and been able to transform lead into…

things mixed with other things could make things they needed. Alchemy is best known by people because of the Philosopher's Stone. This mythical and magical stone supposedly has the power to change any element into gold and produce the elixir of immortality. Nonetheless, alchemy did fail. This is because people didn't know what to mix and how to mix it. So, they gold weird mixtures of metals and things that didn't really do much. Alchemy did lead to the the creation of modern chemistry, and…

in everybody, whether they embrace or reject it. In Frankenstein, both Victor Frankenstein and his monstrous creation show that they want to be stronger, though in different ways. Frankenstein is entranced by the thought of creating life through alchemy, and his creation would like to have some power over his own life, as he was born and abandoned within the same hour. As Victor Frankenstein reached his teenage years, he was fascinated by the natural…

John Donne in Death be not proud and Edgar Allen Poe in Spirits of the dead explore the idea that Death is an unavoidable part of life, but this death is not all powerful, as the spirits of those who have died, live on. Donne’s Sonnet has an aggressive tone, it is an attack on death, a mocking and satirical challenge,’. . . poore death. . . Thou art a slave. . .’ whereas Spirits of the Dead emphasises the inevitability of death in a sombre, resentful tone. Donne’s personification and…

Victor Frankenstein is renowned for being a scientist of legendary proportions but there are speculations as to whether this character was based on reality. Mary Shelley created a literary classic with her unforgettable characters of Frankenstein and his monster. She presented science in a different way than ever before. Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus is a horror novel written by Mary Shelley in the early 19th century. The story revolves around a scientist named Victor Frankenstein.…

He states that only the Jewish people were able to pursue the arts of alchemy in ancient times, and were required to do their work in secret, even hiding their tinctures, or alcohol extracts, in order to evade arousing the suspicions of those who might want to stop their work. He describes their secretive ways in a generally…

Both poets have contrasting views on love, and the actions, and desires that accompany such an emotion. Love’s Alchemy uses comparison and parallels to show the speaker’s opinion on love, comparing it to the old art of alchemy and the quest for eternal life. The speaker deems that this in an impossible feat, and anyone who should even attempt such a thing is nothing but misguided and naïve ‘Oh, ‘tis imposture all’. Poe…

When people think of Isaac Newton and the contributions he made to science they usually think of his law of gravitation, but there is so much more. He came up with the three laws of motion, theory of light, and the universal law of gravitation. Newton transformed the history of science. In the first three years when Newton was at Cambridge, he, like everybody else, was taught the standard curriculum, but he was more interested in the advanced science. (Isaac Newton, 1) One of his very first…