Decoding the 'Secret Feminine'
‘What really matters is what you believe.’
Decoding ‘the secret feminine’ in Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code
Myths and symbols are very important in the development of a narrative. The authors use symbols to provide mysticism and to make the readers be interested in the development of the plot and to let the public decode the narrative style: “the world [is] a web of profoundly intertwined histories and events. The connections may be invisible… but they are always there, buried just beneath the surface” [1]
One of the contemporary novels that shocked the public eye through its symbols and the way of presenting fiction is Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code. The novel is a complex of symbols from the beginning to its end that are connected to life, human existence, the universe etc. – it is a collage of cyclic events. The one who succeeds decoding these symbols might understand his own life existence.
The following seminar paper is meant to decode some of these symbols relating to a general but a personal interpretation as well and to outline the ,,carrier” of the symbols that motivate the existence of life today.
The story opens with the murder of Jacques Sauniere, curator of the Louvre Museum in Paris late at night at the hands of a fanatical albino monk. The novel 's hero, Robert Langdon, a Harvard professor of religious symbology, is awakened after midnight by a visitor to his hotel room in Paris.
Earlier in the evening he had given a lecture and slide show on pagan symbolism hidden in the stones of Chartres Cathedral. The visitor is from the Judicial Police (the French equivalent of the FBI). He informs Langdon of the murder of Sauniere, and says that his name was in Sauniere 's day planner. Langdon is wanted for questioning. Before escorting him to the murder scene at the Louvre, the visitor shows Langdon a photo of the body.
Before he died. Sauniere stripped and lay down on the floor in the position of a
Decoding ‘the secret feminine’ in Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code
Myths and symbols are very important in the development of a narrative. The authors use symbols to provide mysticism and to make the readers be interested in the development of the plot and to let the public decode the narrative style: “the world [is] a web of profoundly intertwined histories and events. The connections may be invisible… but they are always there, buried just beneath the surface” [1]
One of the contemporary novels that shocked the public eye through its symbols and the way of presenting fiction is Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code. The novel is a complex of symbols from the beginning to its end that are connected to life, human existence, the universe etc. – it is a collage of cyclic events. The one who succeeds decoding these symbols might understand his own life existence.
The following seminar paper is meant to decode some of these symbols relating to a general but a personal interpretation as well and to outline the ,,carrier” of the symbols that motivate the existence of life today.
The story opens with the murder of Jacques Sauniere, curator of the Louvre Museum in Paris late at night at the hands of a fanatical albino monk. The novel 's hero, Robert Langdon, a Harvard professor of religious symbology, is awakened after midnight by a visitor to his hotel room in Paris.
Earlier in the evening he had given a lecture and slide show on pagan symbolism hidden in the stones of Chartres Cathedral. The visitor is from the Judicial Police (the French equivalent of the FBI). He informs Langdon of the murder of Sauniere, and says that his name was in Sauniere 's day planner. Langdon is wanted for questioning. Before escorting him to the murder scene at the Louvre, the visitor shows Langdon a photo of the body.
Before he died. Sauniere stripped and lay down on the floor in the position of a
Bibliography: Da Vinci Code http://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/the-davinci-code-cult/, accessed Dec 20, 2012.