Execution! For the offence of being an Independent Woman: Desire for Self and Freedom in Paulo Coelho’s The Spy

Abstract

Paulo Coelho, a Brazilian writer is one among the widely read and translated authors. Self is a relative abstract term that means different things to different writers like Emerson or Nadine Gardiner.  Mata Hari, the protagonist of Coelho's The Spy desires for freedom, which leads to her execution.  Women can be free but only within the norm which is set for them, without them.  The researcher proposes to uncover the impulse of living on her own