Assignment: New Literature

 

Ø Name:- Sanjaykumar N Jogadiya.

Ø Subject:- The New Literature

Ø Paper No.13

Ø Topic:- Justify of The Title: Da Vinci Code;

              And Daniel Brown Use Symbols.

     Ø Part:- M.A. Sem-4

Ø RollNo.24,   

Ø EnrollmentNo:-2069108420200017

Ø  Email Id:- snjogadiya@amail.com

Ø  Submitted:- Smt. S.B. Gardi Department of  English  MK Bhavnagar  University.

 

Introduction

 

Dan Brown's full name is Dan Gerhard Brown. Dan Brown was born on June 22, 1964, in Exeter, New Hampshire, USA. Mystery and Robert Langdon, "Angel and Demons", "The Da Vinci Code", "Inferno", "The Lost Symbol" and "Thriller Series". Original ”. His novels are about conspiracy theory, symbols, keys, cryptography, codes and art. Many novels have been adapted into films such as The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons and Inferno. And his books have been translated into 57 languages. In addition, his books The Vinci Code and Angels and Demons were very controversial because of the interpretation of Christianity, for example the interpretation of Mary Magdalene. He is an American author who wrote well-researched novels that penetrated into secret organizations and had complex plots. He was known for the Robert Langdon series, including The Da Vinci Code (2003). In 2005, Brown was named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World.

 

Justify of The Title: Da Vinci Code.

Robert Langdon has a history of controversy over the title - last year, it erupted in the Vatican. After a while, Langdon slammed the door again to let the guest know he was going to his room. The visitor, an agent with the French Judicial Police, questions Lechden about his previous plans to meet with his acquaintance Jack Sr. for a drink after the speech. Langdon says that Saunir made him stand. Agent tells Langdon that the senior is dead and shows him a picture of the senior's body, which is arranged in a special way. Langdon was terrified and even frightened - he saw that a corpse had been arranged in the same way before, and that led to the Vatican incident. Dan Brown really talks about Jesus marrying Mary Magdalene; But this truth had to be suppressed. It had to be bent. In fact, Dan Brown says there are all sorts of documents that he will prove, but they are hidden and no one could find them, which is kind of interesting.

 

              In the Louvre, a monk named Silas grabbed the museum's curator, Jack Sawyer, and demanded to know where the Holy Grail was. After the seniors told him, Silas shot him and killed him. However, San Nair has lied to Silas about Grail's location. Realizing that he has a few minutes to live and that he must pass on his important secret, Sun Near paints a pile of pants on his stomach with his own blood, draws a circle with his blood, and pulls himself back into the center of the circle. Dr. Creation of the position of Vinci's Vitruvian Man. It also leaves the code, one line of the number and two lines of text with invisible ink. Jerome Colette, a police detective, calls Robert Langdon, the protagonist of the story and a professor of symbolology, and asks him to come to the Louvre to try to interpret the scene. Langdon has not yet realized he suspects murder himself.

              After assassinating the senator, Silas calls him a "teacher" and tells him that, according to the senator, there is a key stone in the Saint-Saint-Sulpis of Pa Church. The teacher sends Silas there. Silas follows the senior key to Keystone's location and discovers that he has been betrayed. In a fit of rage, he assassinated Sister Sandrin Bell, pastor of the church, and Srindri of Prairie S. Sion. In the Louvre, Langdon meets police captain Jerome Colette and Bezu Fetch and realizes that two policemen suspect murder on them. Dan Brown refuses to accept the idea that faith in God is in ignorance of truth. The ignorance that is sometimes advocated by the church is embodied in the character of Bishop Eringorosa, who does not think the church should be involved in scientific investigation. According to the Da Vinci Code, the Church has also applied ignorance about the existence of the lineage of Jesus. Although Langdon says at one point in the novel that perhaps the mysteries of the Grail should be let people believe, he believes that those who truly believe in God will not be able to accept this biblical idea literally. Truth text. People’s faith can, in other words, oppose the truth.

          The Da Vinci Code raises the question of whether history books necessarily tell the only truth. The novel is full of re-sections of commonly told stories in life such as Jesus, Pentacle and Da Vinci Fresco The Last Supper. Brown provides his own explanation of how he compiled the Bible and what the missing gospels are. Langdon also interprets the Disney movie The Little Mermaid, which he retries as Disney's attempt to show the lost divine femininity. All of these retailers are presented as at least partially true. The characters in the Da Vinci Code ignore the power of women at their peril. Throughout the novel, Sophie is underestimated. He is able to sneak into the Louvre and deliver a secret message to save Langdon from his clutches, as Fach does not believe he is capable of doing his job. While Sophie and Langdon are questioning their ability to get rid of Interpol, Fash specifically calls Sophie a "female cryptologist." While interpreting a hint hidden in the rose bunks, Langdon and Tabing leave Sophie, her perfect patron. When she is finally allowed to see the key, she immediately understands how to interpret it. Sophie saved Langdon from arrest several times. Other women are similarly underestimated. Sister Sandrin is sent to the church Saint-Saint-Sulpis for fraternity, but Silas, passing us, apparently, implied masculinity, considers her no danger.

 

Red Hair:  

Red hair is stand for Holy Blood. In the book Dan Brown used the character of Sophie Neveu as bloodline of Mary Magdalene. Robert Langdon praises her red Hair. So, it is said that Marry Magdalene also had a red hair and it represent the Holy Blood. Hence, Brown rationalizes this symbol to connect Sophie as descendent of Marry Magdalene.

 

Saunier’s Knight: The Knight sits in the office of Jaques Saunier an ironic symbol used by Brown. Knight is supposed to protect the Holy Grail but this Knight which Teabing has bugged betrays the Grail. So, here Brown connects this Knight with sir Teabing and conveys that all knights are not trusted because like Teabing, people are trustworthy. At first glance Teabing seems good person but when plot moves his identity turn into cheats. Hnce novel says that things are not always what they seem.

 

Holy Grail :

The Grail is the symbol of the hidden Spiritual truth of Christianity. In the novel it is not the cup Jesus used at the last supper, as tradition holds. Rather it is something entirely different that would have earth-shattering repercussions in the world if it were revealed. Mary Magdalene, the disciple of Jesus who bore his child. As a symbol of spiritual truth, the Holy Grail also exemplifies the Sacred feminine.

 

Rose:

Images of rose occur throughout the text. Roses appear as engraved symbols, as supposed decorations, and even as direction leading to the Grail. The Rose is also represented in a more abstract from, such as the pentacle and the star of David. In all cases the rose refers to divine feminine, especially to Mary Magdalene.

Roses are a traditional gift symbolizing romantic love. They have different meanings depending on their color, the white rose is symbolic of innocence and the feminine and the red rose, true love and the masculine, in The a Da Vinci code a pink rose has been used to signify a graceful merging of both feminine and masculine.

 

Blood:

Blood stands for truth  in The DA Vinci Code. Saunière draws a pentacle—for him, a symbol of the Church’s intention to cover up the true history of the world—on his stomach in his own blood. Sophie realizes that her grandfather has left a message for her on the Mona Lisa because a drop of his blood remains on the floor. Teabing spies a trickle of blood on Silas’s leg, which he takes to mean that Silas has a cilice, a barbed punishment belt, on his thigh, and disables him by hitting him there. Silas himself had thought of blood as truth in a different way—for Silas, blood means cleansing of impurities. And at the very end of the novel, the discovery of the blood of Mary Magdalene running through Sophie and her brother’s veins proves that the story of the Grail is true.

Mona Lisa painting:  

An expression of the artist's beliefs in "The Holy Woman". A secret reference to the Egyptian gods Amon and Isis symbol: "Mona" and "Lisa" It is drawn as Mona Lisa in the church's repression on the true identity of Mary Magdalene. The Mona Lisa is not a person, but a secret information about the Egyptian gods Amon and Isis. Mona is the anagram and Lisa Isa means the contraction of Isis. In the novel, Professor Robert Langdon reveals the mystery that Da Vinci drew the Mona Lisa in protest of the Church's repression of Mary Magdalene's true identity.

 

 

Vitruvian Man:  

The work of the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius, the opening scene of the novel, the Sunnier's body found naked in the Louvre, and the mystery of solving Da Vinci's mystery like the Vitruvin Man, the creative genius, art, music, film and literature.

 

Pentacle:    

Symbol of beauty and perfection and is associated with the Goddess and the holy woman Stability and Body The All, Spirit, Divine. Intelligence and the Arts. The importance of balance and harmony between all the peoples of the earth and humanity and the natural world

Priory of Sion: 

 

The Priory of Sion is a secret society purportedly founded in the 11th century, its alleged purpose to preserve and protect the original precepts of Christianity while also acting as the guardian of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene’s sacred bloodline. Documentaries and books by writers Henry Lincoln, Michael Baigent, and Richard Leigh. From the moment of its release "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail" caused a great deal of controversy. In this provocative book, the authors stated “There was a secret order behind the Knights Templar, which created the Templars as its military and administrative arm. This order, which has functioned under a variety of names, is most frequently known as the Prieure de Sion (Priory of Sion). The Prieure de Sion has been directed by a sequence of Grand Masters whose names are amongst the most illustrious in Western history and culture.

 

conclusion

Dan Brown has great interest in the puzzles and codes from the childhood so he used these all things in the conspiracy novel to read history of Christianity. Interestingly, he used all the things with rationality and logically so people can reread the history of Christianity in different way or we can say alternative story of Christianity. da Vinci code one  that study of symbols metaphors is best way to learn something apart from having bulky Books. it gives me clear insight , clear vision how to Study historical places, locations how to connect symbols with information. if I share my personal experience then I found this kind of case study and the solution of historical case , pop up the understanding Human psychology in better way. it shape me like every mysterious things has certain history. To sum up, we can say that the novel is all about the symbols, codes, cryptic language and anagrams which are used by Dan Brown rationally and logically to interpret Christianity.

Work citation

●      Dan Brown. n.d. 28 February 2021 <https://danbrown.com/#author-section>.

●      Encyclopedia, The Editors of. Britanica.Com. 18 June 2020. 28 February 2021 <https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dan-Brown>.

●      Da Vinci Code. By Akiva Goldsman . Dir. Ron Howard. Perf. Tom Hanks, et al. Prods. Brian Grazer and John Calley. Sony Pictures, 2006.