Psychosocial Relevance
Coelho, Paulo. The Alchemist. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1993. Print.
In today's world, so many people are lost and are seeking an external source of happiness. The answer lies within us if we only stop to empower ourselves and investigate what it is we seek. In the movie Maleficent, Maleficent dreams of true love, and although the dream is seemingly spoiled by her oppressors, through various trials, she is finally able to realize the dream, find her true love, and she did it just by being herself. Paulo Coelho's novel, The Alchemist, is a story of a shepherd boy who travels along the hero's journey only to find, at the end, that the hero he was seeking was within himself all along. Maleficent's story begins not unlike most people's story, with her being a self assured young child. Due to the cutting of her wings, Maleficent developed prejudice and fear, as well as the realization that the man she loved was the one who had betrayed her. She then goes on to sacrifice the love and affections of all the creatures in the Moors, abandons her dreams, envelops hate, and dispenses fear. In the end, with the the mother and child love she experiences with Aurora, she finds herself worthy of true love and understands her purpose. Sometimes bad things happen to good people and sometimes life takes people on journey's they never expected. The Alchemist teaches readers to do as Maleficent did, who ended up writing her own fairytale and made her own happy ending.
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