Gendered Spiritual Consciousness and Narrative Identity: A Comparative Study of Transformative Spirituality in Paulo Coelho’s ‘The Alchemist’ and Elif Shafak’s ‘The Forty Rules of Love’
Journal of Arts and Linguistics Studies December 8, 2025 Munazza Batool Tahir, Naveed Ahmad
This research paper examines the evolution of gendered spiritual consciousness and narrative identity in Paulo Coelho’s ‘The Alchemis’ and Elif Shafak’s ‘The Forty Rules of Love’. While both novels depict spirituality as a transformative journey, their narrative constructions differ significantly in tone, structure, and philosophical grounding. Coelho’s narrative presents spirituality through a...