Revisiting Personal History as a Healing Force in Paulo Coelho’s The Zahir

Abstract

The Zahir by Paulo Coelho presents the different kinds of conflicting human relationships and overshadowed selfhood. This thesis observes how such relations affect the human life and how such conflicting relation comes to the harmonious point following the main aspects of ethics. It also exposes the bitter and sweeter reality of human lives and clearly shows the importance of Ethical norms and values as the healing force in human lives. Paulo Coelho has presented his characters in such a way that almost all of them suffer different kinds of problems and difficulties. Either protagonist or Mikhail they have to face so many kinds of problems. As a consequence they have to revisit their personal history following the Ethical norms and values which ultimately work as healing forces in most of the characters of The Zahir .