Symbols Of Myth Depicted in Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist

This research entitled “Symbols of Myth Depicted in Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist” aims to figure out the meaning and the myth of the objects defined as symbols in the novel. The researcher used qualitative method in analyzing the data. The primary data is Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist novel. The researcher used Saussure’s semiotics theory to figure out the meaning of the symbol that is divided into the signifier and the signified based on the context in the story. Theory of myth is also used to discover the myth that becomes the background of the symbols in the story. The result shows that there are five objects found in the novel that becomes the symbols of myth; hawk, Urim and Thummim stones, Philosopher’s stone, sheep, and crystal glass. European and Egyptian myths are the myths that are related to the symbols. Hawk, Urim and Thummim stones and Philosopher’s stone are the symbols of European myth, sheep is the symbol of Egyptian myth and Crystal glass is the symbol of both European and Egyptian myth