My interpretations on The Da Vinci Code

              

Here I am giving to my reply about the worksheet of The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. First I give the answer about narration and central theme. So here I give the answer about what is thriller and suspense thriller and about conspiracy theory. I took from this answer on Wikipedia website.

Thriller is a genre of literature, film, and television programming that uses suspense, tension, and excitement as its main elements. Thrillers heavily stimulate the viewer's moods, giving them a high level of anticipation, ultra-heightened expectation, uncertainty, surprise, anxiety and terror. Films of this genre tend to be adrenaline-rushing, gritty, rousing and fast-paced.

A thriller provides the sudden rush of emotions, excitement, and exhilaration that drive the narrative, sometimes subtly with peaks and lulls, sometimes at a constant, breakneck pace. It keeps the audience on the "edge of their seats", akin to a sensation of hanging from a cliff, as the plot builds towards a climax. Literary devices such as red herrings, plot twists, and cliffhangers are used extensively. A thriller is usually a villain-driven plot, whereby he or she presents obstacles that the protagonist must overcome.

A conspiracy theory is an explanatory proposition that accuses two or more persons, a group, or an organization of having caused or covered up, through secret planning and deliberate action, an illegal or harmful event or situation.

The conspiracy thriller (or paranoid thriller) is a subgenre of thriller fiction. The protagonists of conspiracy thrillers are often journalists or amateur investigators who find them (often inadvertently) pulling on a small thread which unravels a vast conspiracy that ultimately goes "all the way to the top." The complexities of historical fact are recast as a morality play in which bad people cause bad events, and good people identify and defeat them. Conspiracies are often played out as "man-in-peril" (or "woman-in-peril") stories, or yield quest narratives similar to those found in whodunits and detective stories.

The Da Vinci Code is highly controversial work of art and we all know that it has raised some questions regarding Christian religion. We know that ‘Holy Grail’ is a myth but here some questions arise in my mind that if Holy Grail is myth or interpretation than why people take more interest in this myth. We are not sure that in reality Holy Grail is existing or not? Why people want to search Holy Grail? In the movie why Teabing said that if Holy Grail is found then women can be relived from all the disasters? If we look in the history than we find that Jesus was a son of God means he has some supernatural powers. So people believe that he had been God. But we don’t find that Mary Magdalene had any supernatural power. So in movie we find that many women are killed. This novel is about Jesus Christ and his divinity and about Mary Magdalene. We know that if any person talk against or any truth about religion than so called defenders of religion  raise objections. Same thing happen with Dan brown. Sometimes I feel that writers are not free to write about whatever they think and feel in our country. Are they more free and safe in other countries?

We find that other countries are deep thinking about their religion or myth means they are deconstructing their rituals and myths. We find this only in foreign countries but I never found in our country people who raise some questions about religion because of fear they can’t do that otherwise they will be punished by God. They know that if they do that then religion or religious people will kill them. Just because of FEAR. We find this same thing in recent movie PK.  Whenever we talk about religion than we put our self in anger.

The Da Vinci Code is a suspense thriller novel and movie also. I have not read original yet. But I I watched this movie and I found that each and every moment we find some suspense and action means it’s create more curiosity to know about what is the next scene.

The director of the movie Ron Howard has remained faithful to the novel. He also successfully creates inquisitiveness in the viewers and he is successful to create confusion and some doubts in our mind. It is not understood to ordinary man by watching it only one time and easily to get everything whatever director or writer says to his viewers or readers. Even I don’t understand some parts of the movie, I watched this movie twice or more time to understand.

In this novel Brown has shown Mary Magdalene as symbol of the lost goddess. In Christian religion she is known as prostitute. But here in this novel or movie writer changes her character. Means in the novel writer says that she is not only a disciple of Jesus but his wife. Church has spread some buzz about Mary Magdalene. Pagan religion emphasized the equality of both and sometimes gives importance to feminine leadership. We can also say that in Christian religion female figure are more important than male figure because if we glance on history that Mary Magdalene also gave birth to a baby girl child.  And her name was Sara. We find that in novel also one of the protagonists of this novel is also female character who was Sophie Neveu. And believe that she is also one who carries the Jesus blood line. Here one question arises that why writer uses the female character to heir and protagonist also? The hidden docket behind this that writer has shown some negative sense about Mary Magdalene.

About female sacredness if we look in to past we found that people believe that women are not impure and people also praised and respect women have power to give new life and they have power to continue the generation or to give birth to new life and we know that men can’t do that. This novel makes the readers confuse that how far he remain faithful to female sacredness in the novel because of some feminine strong evidence about Mary’s life. We know that now a days many highly religious figures say that women are impure. So here is one question to them that from where have they come to this earth? By some supernatural power  or by some other way? If I am not wrong all Godly figures have taken birth.  If we talk about our religion than God Krishna, Ram etc have come to this earth by birth. And they say that women are impure because of some biological organs differences. So no one can say that women are impure and if they say like this  they are foolish people. Even God made humans so both are same without any one we can’t maintain our cyclical change. If we deny that, this is against nature we can say like this. In male dominated society female character is marginalized and only men can carry the blood line. In the movie we found Sophie  thought  like both  men and women’s  so we can call that she has multiple personalities. Sophie is French police, cryptologist and calamity is that she could not read the hidden messages which  her grandfather left for  her. Robert Langdon  helped her to find  Sophie’s background and solve the puzzle. We know that Robert Langdon was scholar of symbologist.

 I don’t think that this novel is Anti Christian. Dan Brown reveals the controversial truth or we can say that Jesus Christ was not virgin and he had child. He revealed this thing which is not only based on myth or interpretation but he has also some strong evidences. He reveled these secrets which are hidden by Opus Die. Old Christianity believed in Goddess worshiping and normally that time is night time so some are said that they do evil worship. New religion do not believe that worshiping Goddess.

We know that in the novel we find two characters Robert Langdon and Leigh Teabing who are symbologist and scholars. We know that symbols have many and different meanings. Holy Grail is first time presented by Brown. It means not only cup of Christ but it is also Sarcophagus of Mary Magdalene. Holy Grail is just not a thing that can be seen, it is just a hope that connect religion.

I have studied Paradise Lost and The Da Vinci Code. I say that narrative structure seems to be faithful. In Paradise Lost Milton wrote on Eve and Adam. Eve is responsible for fall of Adam. Here Brown through his fictional novel raised all historical issues and references have given strong evidence.

If we compare Sophie’s character with other female literary figures of Movie like Hamlet, The Scarlet Letter, then we can say that its some issues  are against women. But I think all characters are right at to their own situation or place and they are all equally powerful.

As you discussed in the class whatever we know we understand or identify is our knowledge So they are things that are not known and which we can never know. One philosopher gave this proposition rather tries to give mathematical proposition that what human can know? What human never cannot know those thing omniscient can know something. Identifying what is knowable that and identifying acknowledge of relationship of the knower and known, who is like to know something and what we are trying to know what is the relationship between these two necessary things. This is the procedure of ability to know. This you discussed in the class and gave one example that if a person of any religion gives his view on other religion he keeps his religion in his mind. So religion makes person think in only one way. If any person claims that he or she knows everything that’s not true that they know everything.   

So this is my way to look at this text.

                                                    

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