Da Vinci Code

Criticism

The use of omniscient narration is founded here.

The Narrator is unknown, as if we are listening the story.:

each character is the third person for us.

The narration is covering both the sides parallel way.

It is the micro narrative which is challenging the ideas

presenting in the Meta Narrative i.e. Bible.

In the beginning the word ‘Renowned’

Boundry crossing from real to imaginary

from classical style to postmodern style fiction

Open ended chapters with shocking ends

Point of view changes at every chapter

Narrative Techniques

Use of Science & Mathematics

His father was mathematician

Use of Fibonacci series

Use of PHI as Devine number.

Scientifically tries to legitimize the myth.

establish new myths related to Pagan religian

Nature and Math

Alphabets and math

The Vitruvian Man

The Last Supper

Use of Paintings

The last Supper

Use of Paintings

The Vitruvian ManMona Lisa

Conspiracy Theory

The Theory is questioning to the beliefs, truths(pre-established) and myths. And it presents the counter view of it.

For example, who had attacked the twin towers of World Trade Centre in New York?

Osama Bin Laden was the terrorist?

Nil Armstrong was really the first person went on Moon? Did NASA really send the space shuttle to the Moon?

Same way here we left with the questions:

Did the stories and emergence of Crist is to control pagan beliefs?

Was the Christ a Jew prince or the incarnation of God?

Was Jesus ever married? If yes, then with whom, a lady or Church?

Does the bloodline of Jesus is still live with us?

Feminism

There are two folded feminism can be seen.

The role of Sophie is putting questions on the does the female is such a stupid?

She was sometimes unable to solve the cryptograph though it is her favorite hobby.

She herself believe that the union of male and female id not good which is quite masculine thought and shows the deep root of patriarchy in her psyche.

Langdon prove him having superior intellect in the work.

On the other side the novel is about suppression and demolition of Pagan Religion.

The hidden truth of Holy Grail is abandon of the sacred feminine.

The Jesus had daughter is also denied.

And the daughter carries out the bloodline of Jesus(Divinity & Godliness) is also denied.

Da Vinci Code Biblical References

Jesus is the prophet from the Jewish

community chosen by the King of Rome

Jesus is called God 7 times and believed to be

the Son of God ‘ incarnate to pay for Eve and

Adam’s Sin.

The Dead Sea Scrolls the important document

regarding Christianity Called ‘Nag Hammadi’

The Dead Sea Scroles doen the Jewish

Documents with it. The Christian Documents

were safe. “ Nag Hammadi is not any kind of

document before late second century A.D.

“ One particularly troubling theme kept

recurring in the (Gnostic) gospels Mary

Magdalene… more specifically; her marriage

to Jesus Christ” (Pg 244)

The Gnostic gospels is a kind of anonymous

writings that blended psudochristian ideas

with the pure spirituality and it contains

nothing about Jesus & Mary

“The Bible we know today was collected by

pagan Roman Emporer Constantine”(Pg 231)

The Old testament exist Prior to even Jesus’s

Day, and the New Testament is began to apear

but not formeteed before 395-397 A.D. The

time of Constaintine is before 337 A.D. So it

was impossible that The Bible was collected

by him.

“ [A]ny gospels that describes Jesus’s earthly

life that are omitted from the Bible” (Pg 244)

The New testaments describes Jesus’s

hunger, fatigue, death, outrage, love, and his

interactions with different people eg his

mother.

Constantaine commissioned and financed a

new Bible which omitted those Gospels that

spoke of Christ’s Human traits and

embellished those Gospels that made him

godlike.

1.there was no New Bible commissioned by

emperor and he simply requested to make

fifty copies of widely read scripture.2. There is

no evidance that Constantine or anyone else

10 Errors in the novel

The Last Supper

Priory Sion

Opus Dei

Rosslyn Chapel

Problems with Paris

The Vatican

Mary Magdalene

Gnosticism

Geography

Assorted errors

Annotated Bibliography

http://www.catholic.com/documents/cracking-the-da-vinci-

code

The link is having a page with the information in the

question answer form and it is regarding the conspiracy

shown in the da Vinci Code.

http://listverse.com/2007/09/02/top-10-errors-of-the-

da-vinci-code/#.VHgGJMYIEdo.google_plusone_share

This link shows the mistakes and errors in the book Da

Vinci Code. It is really makes reader ‘error & learn’!!!

http://www.biblicalcatholic.com/apologetics/DaVinciC

ode.htm

This link shows criticism of the book Da Vinci Code

Annotated Bibliography

http://www.cbn.com/special/davincicode/

This link gives us the clear comparison of the Biblical Response and what Da Vinci Code says instead.

http://www.gospelway.com/religiousgroups/davinci-mary.php

The page states that in the book Da Vinci Code Jesus married to Mary Magdalene was not true.

http://www.gospelway.com/religiousgroups/davinci-goddesses.php

This links leads us to the page containing the information about the pagan Goddesses and worship and it’s concern with Da Vinci Code.

http://www.pubbys.com/davincianswers/Da%20Vinci%20Code%20Is%20Overtly%20Feminist.htm

Through this link one can find the feminism that is read in the book Da Vinci Code.