Assignment : Paper no :- 13 The New Literature

 Name :- Dharaiya Sanjay A. 

Roll no :- 23

Enrolment no :- 2069108420200009 

Semester- M. A. Semester - 4

Paper no :- 13 The New Literature

Topic: Critical Analysis of “Da Vinci Code”

Year :- 2020- 2021 

Words:- 2715

Email :- dharaiy9@gmail.com 

Submitted to :- S. B. Gardi Department of English. Maharaja krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar Uni.




Critical Analysis of “Da Vinci Code”

In the Louvre, an Opsus Deina monk named Silas grabbed the museum's curator, Jack Sir and demanded to know where the Holy Grail was. After the seniors told him, Silas shot him and left him to die. However, San Nier 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, Saunier paints a pant acle on his stomach with his own blood, draws a circle with his blood, and pulls himself back to the center of the circle.  -Creating the position of Da. 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 symbology, and asks him to come to the Louvre to try to interpret the scene. Langdon has not yet realized that he himself is a murder suspect.


  After killing the senator, Silas calls him a "teacher" and tells him that, according to the senator, the stone is the main stone in the church of Saint-Sulpis in Reiss. The teacher sends Silas there. Silas follows the senior's key to Keystone's location and discovers that he has been betrayed. In a fit of rage, he killed Sister Sandrin Beale, the caretaker of the church, and the sentry for Priory SF Sion. In the Louvre, Langdon meets Jerome Colette and Bezu Fech, the police captain, and realizes that two policemen suspect him of murder.


  Sophie Nevu, the cryptology department and the senior's granddaughter's agent, arrives at the crime scene and tells Langdon that she must call the embassy. When Langdon makes calls to the number Sophie gives her, she arrives at her answering service. The message warns Langdon that he is in danger and that he should meet Sophie in the Louvre's bathroom. In the bathroom, Sophie shows Langdon that Fetch notes her movements with a tracking device. She throws the device out the window at a passing truck, fleeing from the Langdon Louvre, police think.


  Sophie also tells Langdon that the last line of the secret message, “P.S. Find Robert Langdon, ”was his grandfather's way of warning him: P.S. Princess Sophie is the beginning of her grandfather's nickname. Langdon thinks that P.S. Perhaps for Prionary Sf Zion, an ancient fraternity dedicated to the preservation of the tradition of pagan goddess worship, and to the preservation of the mystery that the senior died in protection.

  Langdon decodes the second and third lines of the senior's message: “Leonardo da Vinci!  Mona Lisa!  Sophie turns to the paintings to see another clue. Police have also returned the Louvre, and they make an arrest for Langdon. Sophie found the key behind Meldo's Rocks. Using this painting as a hostage, he works to disarm the police officer and get himself and Langdon out of the building. Vernet successfully smuggles coffee, Sophie and Langdon into the back of a locked armored car. Vernet turns to him, but he manages to escape from Cryptax, which Langdon realizes is actually the Prior Keystone - that is, the key to all the secrets about the location of the Holy Grail to the Prior.


  Langdon and Sophie go to the home of historian Sir Leah Tabing to ask for his help in opening the opening. Tabbing calls them the legend of the Grail, beginning with historical historical evidence that the Bible did not come directly from God, but was compiled by Emperor Constantine. He also gave evidence that the divinity of Jesus was decided by vote at Nixia, and that Jesus married Mary Magdalene, who was of royal blood, and had children by him. Tebing shows them the symbols hidden in the final supper and the painted representation of Magdalene. He tells them that the Holy Grail is actually Mary Magdalene's body and the documents proving Mary's blood line relate to Jesus. He says he thinks Sainier and others could be killed because the church suspects Prairie will unveil the secret.


  As Langdon is showing Cryptax, Silas appears and hits him on the head. Silas grabs Sophie and Tabing at the point of the gun and demands the key stone, but Tebing attacks Silas, hitting him on the thigh where his punishment belt is located, and Sophie ends up kicking him in the face.


  Colette arrives at the castle, but Sophie, Langdon, Bound Silas, Tabing, and her servant, Remy, escape, and Tebing's private plane goes to England.  Sophie realizes that the text on the cryptocurrency is indestructible if viewed in a mirror. They are understood to be a poem, referring to "a major stone admired by the Templars" and "atbush cipher", which will help them reach the password. Langdon recalls that the Knights Templar are believed to worship the god Bafomet, sometimes represented by a large stone head. The word coined by Atbush Cipher is Sophia. When they open Cryptax, however, they only find another Cryptax, this is the key about a tomb where a knight was buried by the Pope. They should find the orb that should be on Knight's grave.


  Fach understands that the tipping and the rest of it is in the jet. He calls the British police and asks them to come around the airport, but Tibing thinks to convince the police that there is no one inside the plane but himself. He then goes to Temple Church in London with Sophie, Langdon, R.M. and Silas. Releases the 23rd Silas and declares that he also follows the teacher. Silas goes to church to get the keystone, but when he forces Langdon to give it to him, Langdon threatens to break it.  The 27th intervenes, takes Tebing hostage and forces Langdon to leave Cryptax.


  Meanwhile, Colette and his men keep an eye on Tebing's house and when they think he's overseeing the senior. On the phone, the teacher instructs Silas to deliver Cryptax to Remy. The teacher meets Remy in the park and kills him. The teacher calls the police and turns Silas over to the officers. As Silas tries to escape, he is shot, and he accidentally shoots his idol, Bishop Eringorosa.


  Silas Bishop takes Aringorosa to the hospital and enters the park, where he dies. The next day at the hospital, Eringorosa sternly reflected that Tebing had betrayed him to help him with his murderous plan by claiming that if the bishop delivered him the grail, he would help Opus Day in favor of the church. Sophis and Langdon's research led them to discover that the knight Sir Isaac Newton they were looking for was buried by the Pope, as they knew he had been buried by Alexander the Pope. They go to Westminster Abbey, where Newton is buried. There, the teacher lured him into the garden and told him he had a whip.  They go there only to find out that teasing themselves is a teacher. Tebing suspects that the senator has decided not to divulge the secret of Priory or Sion, as Sophie was threatened with death by the church if the secret was leaked. Should the secret be public knowledge, he decided to find the grail himself.


  Teabing gives Langdon a cryptex and asks Langdon and Sophie to help open it. Langdo has figured out that the password is the apple - the orb missing from Newton's tomb. He opens the cryptex and secretly takes out the papyrus. He then simply throws Cryptax into the air, causing Tebing to drop his pistol and prevent the map from being destroyed. Suddenly, Facheche flooded the room and arrested Tibing. The papyrus inside the second cryptex draws Sophie and Langdon to Scotland, where Sophie finds her brother and her grandmother.  During the reunion, she learned that her family was indeed the bloodline of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. Sophie and Langdon part promising to meet in Florence in a month. Back in Paris, Langdon understands the poem, which leads him to a small pyramid built into the ground in the Louvre.


Themes Of “The Da Vinci Code”

The False Conflict between Faith and Knowledge :-

Dan Brown refuses to accept the idea that faith in God lies 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 preserved to allow people to believe, he thinks that those who truly believe in God will be able to accept this biblical idea full of metaphor, not the literal text of truth.  People’s faith can, in other words, oppose the truth.


The Power of Metaphor :

Langdon hints that the hidden mystery about the true form and existence of the Holy Grail will be better left by the forward load of progress. The mystery and aura that surrounds Millenia allowed Grail to become whatever the believers believe it to be. The suggestion here is that faith is far stronger than the facts in which it is located. Coincidence from this ideological point of view is a valid explanation of why so many of those who believe in the Holy Bible do so on the condition that every word is literal. When Langdon considers the wisdom of presenting facts in his explanation of faith reaching the truth, he also argues that such faith is so strong and steadfast if the stories and events presented in the Bible as historical facts are seen only as metaphors. Or why  The purpose is to give knowledge of the greater truth. The question boils down to whether investing with the same power for guidance and conditional faith as a literal fact.

The subjective of history :

The Da Vinci Code raises the question of whether history books necessarily tell the only truth. The novel is full of re-divisions of commonly told stories, such as The Life of Jesus, Pentacle, and Da Vinci Fresco The Last Supper.  Brown provides his own explanation of how the Bible was compiled and the missing gospels.  Lang Langdon also interprets the Disney movie The Little Mermaid, re-imagining it as an attempt by Disney to show the lost divine femininity. All of these retailers have been presented as at least partially true.


The Intelligence of Women :


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 Langdon to save him from arrest, as Fach does not believe he is capable of doing his job. While Sophie and Langdon are expressing doubts about his ability to get rid of Interpol, Fash specifically calls Sophie a "female cryptologist."  While interpreting one of the clues hidden in the rose box, Langdon and Tabing leave Sophie, her perfect patron. When she is finally allowed to see the key, she immediately understands how to make sense of it. Sophie rescues Langdon from arrest numerous times.


  Other women are similarly underestimated. Sister Sandrin is sent to the fraternity in the Church Saint-Saint-Sulpeis, but Silas, who is involved in the hypermasculine ways of Op Pas Dei, does not consider her a threat. And Sophie's grandmother Mary Chauvale managed to live life without incident near Roslyn Chapel for years, she saved her bloodline through Sophie's brother.


The subjectivity of Truth :

As the thrilling elements of the story unfold in search of the elusive truths of the Holy Grail and Langdon and Sophie are chased around the world, they discover a great mystery that raises the concern of the novel's subjects with truth. In light of the controversy surrounding the novel itself being accused of playing fast and loose with facts, this is a theme that is rife in the book's ascension to the best-seller paradise. The discovery of the Holy Grail ultimately hangs on an increasingly troubled series of revelations about the historical narrative of the spread of Christianity. The effect of this revelation is to challenge the faith of those who have surrendered their very spiritual existence to commonly held beliefs, in which the protagonist gradually reveals everything from simple misconceptions to corrupt ideas aimed at controlling the masses.


Feminism v. Patriarchy

Living at the center of a business that is at the heart of The Devincy Code is the historical persecution of women and the persecution of women by the Catholic Church in particular and Christianity as a whole. The latest discovery of the Holy Grail transforms the Catholic Church's quest for the Holy Woman into a secret history, as it has emerged to be an important agenda in maintaining patriarchy and ensuring the continued domination of men over women. In view of these considerations, it is claimed that religion founded in the name of Jesus Christ undermines the very purpose and foundation of the beliefs of its very founders.

  The dominant theme of the De Da Vinci Code, clearly, is the urgent need for mankind to reclaim holistic spirituality.




Characters of Da Vinci Code


Robert Langdon :

The character of the novel, anchors the story. He is friendly, competent and kind-hearted. Langdon is trustworthy, like Sophie, his female counterpart and love interest. This credibility makes him stand out in a story in which the author doubts the motivations of every main character except Langdon and Sophie. In many moments of the novel's uncertainty, Langdon's presence is a constant consolation.


  Still, it is seen as a sexual symbol in the academic world, Langdon is rude and disarmed with guns and weapons and lacks determination when it comes to planning and execution. He would think of codes and symbols rather than figure out how to escape the Louvre under the watchful eye of policemen. For this reason, it is well balanced by Sophie, who has transformed her intellectual abilities into survival skills that apply to real life.


Sophie Neveu :


The presence of the novel embodies the Chinese idea of ​​yin and yang, or two complementary powers that work together in harmony. From Langdon and Tabbing, Sophie learned that pagan religions and the value of priority between man and woman are in balance. Sophie and Langdon form the male and female parts of the same hero and their goals never change. In this way, they echo Tabing and Langdon's ideas about the partnership of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. In his view, woman and man work together towards the goal, without being subject to man in any way.


  The sofa and Langdon, like the Mona Lisa, feature femininity and masculinity: for example, Langdon's head is balanced by Sophie's real-world know-how.  Sophie is quick-witted, agile, curious, while from a physical point of view, while she helps to disable Silas in character. But at the same time, he is caring and compassionate.  He deeply feels the loss of his family and mourns the death of his grandfather. Both bright and sexually attractive, Sophie usually combines the masculine toughness with feminine qualities.

Leigh Teabing :

Initially, teasing is a welcome aid for Sophie and Langdon. With its estate, the Chaito Willet, its magnificent sitting room and enormous, book-lined study, it looks like an attractive embodiment of its owner. The cunning brings ridiculous relief, and he knows with his chores and with Sophie that he is a rich and pointed uncle. L His Land Rover given to his pilot at the French airfield and the bribe, help Sophie and Langdon escape from the police.


  Soon enough, however, Brown reveals that Tebing is a killer. Once its true identity is known, it turns into a living example of how wealth can be corrupted by manipulation. Tebing, who has always lived a privileged life, assures himself that his money entitles him to the knowledge of Grail's location. Its broom room-ongoing-study, which at first seems glamorous cluttered, looks like a crazy wreath of serial killers. Her jokes turn from amusing to amusing.  And his habit of throwing people around for money, bribing them, seems to be self-serving, to make sure the group's safe passage is out of France.