This paper looks at the redefinition of spirituality in the works of Coelho with a special focus on female characters
whom undergo a shift in their spiritual realisation from initial ignorance of its existence. The Trilogy, And on the Seventh
Day, which includes three novels, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994), Veronika Decides to Die (1998), and
The Devil and Miss Prym (2000) each dissects the lives, events and most importantly, psychological states of the main
characters that later attain a sense of realisation from within, placing ‘love’ as the centre of all spiritual realisation. For
this purpose, the researcher had used magic realism as a platform to study the emergence of spiritual elements constantly
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