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Major themes of The da vinci code
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Class: M.A. Sem.4
Year: 2015-2017
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Department of English
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Introduction:
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The Da
Vinci Code is
a 2003 mystery-detective novel written by Dan Brown.
It follows symbologist Robert Langdon and
cryptologist Sophie Neveu as they investigate a murder in
Paris's Louvre Museum and discover a battle between
the Priory of Sion and Opus Dei over the
possibility of Jesus having been married to Mary Magdalene.
The title of the novel refers to, among other things, the fact that the murder victim is found in the Grand Gallery of the Louvre, naked and posed like Leonardo da Vincis famous drawing, the Vitruvian Man, with a cryptic message written beside his body and apentagra drawn on his chest in his own blood.
The book has provoked a popular interest in speculation concerning the Holy Grail legend and Magdalene's role in the history of Christianity. The book has been extensively denounced by many Christian denominations as an attack on the Roman Catholic Church. It has also been consistently criticized for its historical and scientific inaccuracies.
Major
themes of the novel :-
Good
Intentions Win over Greed.
The
Search for truth is Timeless.
Christianity
V/s Paganism.
Power
of the Roman Catholic Church.
Sacrifice.
Quest.
Christianity.
The
false conflict between Faith and Knowledge.
The Subjectivity of History.
The Intelligence of women.
Good Intention Wins over Greed: -
The Da Vinci Code is written as a classic thriller in which, throughout the book, good and evil take turns having the upper hand. However by the end of the book, the age old truth is proven again, that good triumphs over evil. In this book, evil was more accurately described as greed. Sir Teabing’s misguided intentions to reveal the truth about the Holy Grail were result of his greed for knowledge of the truth and power to lord over the Vatican.
Search for truth is timeless. The question of whether Christ and Mary Magdalene were married is about as old as the Christian church. The search of the truth is about this subject is timeless and has permeated lore for thousands of years. As the success of Dan brown’s book proves, it is still a great questThe millions of readers are interested in the quest for the truth on this subject as well as the characters of the book. Robert Langdon and Sir Teabing, two of the main characters, have devoted their lives to the quest for the truth about the Holy Grail. Although their motives become very different, the two men have made the search for the Holy Grail a central point of their lives and careers.
Christianity V/s Paganism.
A central theme to the Da Vinci Code is the similarities and differences and its influences upon each other of Christianity and paganism. Throughout the book, the author provides a history of the influences that paganism had on the early Christian church and how those influences have prevailed throughout history. The book also discusses the power that paganism had over the early Christian church and the eventual power that the Christian Church gained over paganism to force the suppression of many of the pagan practices, including goddess worship and nature worship.
Power of the Roman Catholic churc
Another underlying theme throughout the book is the power of the Vatican and the Roman Catholic church on the world wide stage .through their research, Robert Langdon and Sir teabing have learned, and discuss numerous times throughout the book, how the church has suppressed the truth about the Mary Magdalene. They discuss how the church, throughout history, has suppressed the truth through edicts and even violence.
This theme is one that underlies the Teacher’s motive for finding the grail. He believes that the church had pressured Sauniere and the leadership of the priory of Sion to continue hiding the truth about Jesus and Mary Magdalene so he takes it upon himself to seek to un earth the Holy Grail himself.
Sacrifice:-
The Da Vinci Code opens with dramatic personal sacrifice-------Sauniere’s death to protect the secret of the Priory of Sion-------but theme of sacrifice appears repeatedly throughout the novel. It does not always require a death, however, a sacrifice can beauty type of loss, from loss of integrity or freedom to the loss of a physical item.
A Sacrifice entails the giving up of something in exchange for something else. It is a circumstance that does not allow for two competing needs to exist together. For example, Sauniere makes the ultimate sacrifice--- death--- that hundreds in the priory throughout history, according to Brown, have been willing to make. Likewise, Sister Sandrine Bieil sacrifices her life to warn the Priory when Silas attempts to unearth the keystone in the church of Saint-Sulpice
Ques
At the heart of Brown’s novel is the quest, not only as a long adventurous journey in search of something, but also as one of the most archetypal elements in literature, the pursuit of the Holy Grail. Several characters are on quests in the novel for different reasons. Silas looks for the keystone that will lead to the Holy Grail for his saviour, Bishop Aringarosa. Detective Fache searches for the murder of Sauniere.
Langdon explores the meaning behind Leonardo da Vinci’s symbol to greater understand the subject to which he has devoted his studies. The most famous of those to invoke the legend in their art are thirteen—century German epic poet Wolfram von Eschenbach, fifteenth—century English writer Sir Thomas Marlory, English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and composer Richard Wagnerian the nineteenth century.
Christianity:-
Though The Da Vinci Code appears to implicate Catholic institution in a conspiracy to wipe out alternative Christian histories, its suggestions that Jesus was not divine, that Mary Magdalene had children by him, that she, rather than the apostle Peter, was intended to be the first leader of Christianity, and Constantine the Great suppressed all of this and assembled the Bible at the Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D., all relate to Christians of any denomination.
The False Conflict between Faith and Knowledge
Dan Brown refuses to accept the idea that faith in God is rooted in ignorance of the truth. The ignorance that the Church has sometimes advocated is embodied in the character of Bishop Aringarosa, who does not think the Church should be involved in scientific investigation. According to The Da Vinci Code, the Church has also enforced ignorance about the existence of the descendents of Jesus.
The Subjectivity of Histor
The Da Vinci Code raises the question of whether history books necessarily tell the only truth. The novel is full of reinterpretations of commonly told stories, such as those of Jesus’ life, the pentacle, and the Da Vinci fresco The Last Supper. Brown provides his own explanation of how the Bible was compiled and of the missing gospels. Langdon even interprets the Disney movie The Little Mermaid, recasting it as an attempt by Disney to show the divine femininity that has been lost. All of these retellings are presented as at least partly true.
The Intelligence of Women
Characters in The Da Vinci Code ignore the power of women at their peril. Throughout the novel, Sophie is underestimated. She is able to sneak into the Louvre and give Langdon a secret message, saving him from arrest, because Fache does not believe her to be capable of doing her job.
Other women are similarly underestimated. Sister Sandrine, in the Church of Saint-Sluice, is a sentry for the Brotherhood, but Silas, indoctrinated in the hyper masculine ways of Opus Dei, does not consider her a threat. And Marie Chauvel, Sophie’s grandmother, manages to live without incident near Rosslyn Chapel for years, preserving her bloodline through Sophie’s brother.
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works cites
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/davincicode/themes.html
http://anerithakar011213.blogspot.in/2014/03/major-themes-in-da-vinci-code.html
Critical analysis of two African pome
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Critical analsis of two African pome
Asha dodiya B
paper :-14
Class: M.A. Sem.4
Year: 2015-2017
Submitted
to: M.K. Bhavnagar University,
Department of English
Email: ashadodiya15@gmail.com
Introduction
Gabriel Okara
He was born 24 April 1921 Nigerian Poet and novelist. Gabriel Okara is one of the most significant and serious early Nigerian poets. He was educated at Government College or his study at Northwestern University in 1949.
He also look at the traumatic effect that colonization and de-colonization can have on the self and a one’s sense of personal identity Okara has written many poem like.....
o “Once upon a time”
o “New York”
o “Were I to choose”
o “Telephone Conversation”
o “Refugee Mother”
o “Mystic Drum”
Here we are concerned with his 2 poems as enlisted under.
Once Upon Time
‘They used to shake hands with their hearts’
By this we can understand that the poet is reminding us of how we invite people to our homes and for tea and when the invited person does feel at home once it is okay so in other words we can say that when people invite. After that summing up stanza four, this stanza has been focused on how people tend to change their facial expressions for different occasions.
Once Upon Time was written as a concept of Father or son. Colonization Negritude worships anything African and use scintillating rhythms. The poet further says that now they only laugh with their teeth, while their ice-back cold eyes search behind his shadow’ Famous line…
”They used to shake hands with their heart”
They refers to western people who are white also this description in the poem gives the impression of genuine emotion given off by the people. There will ‘Be no more trice’ ‘for then I find doors shut on me’.
The second stanza this shows that again the people are fake and seem to be using the man to see what they can get.
“Feet at home come again”
Third stanza are Okara give a voice to the western society or shows that he is not used to formality, When people say come again they might just be polite.
In stanza four- there is the adaptations and solutions that the man has found to counter the problems. It begins by saving that the man has ’learned many things’ or focused on how people tend to change their facial expressions for different occasions.
The next stanza he deals with the fake attributes to go along with the fake looks. There are no true emotions, feelings and not his heart.
In six or seven he asks the ‘son’ almost pleads with him to ‘show me, son how to laugh; show me how I used to laugh and smile’. He is having the conversation with that teach him all the good habits he has lost and teach him to have true emotions.
“To New York’
Beauty of New York : Blue eye, Golden Girl. The poet Leopold Sedar Senghor exclaims that at first the beauty of New York held him spell-bound as it was superficial. It was limited to physicality of the “great long-legged golden girls.” The adjective “metallic” has various connotations here. The term may refer to the lifelessness of the eyes. It may also allude to the nerve of steel.
Night in New York
Sun’s eclipse
No Natural environment
The line “lifting up owl eyes in the sun’s eclipse” reveals how the warmth of life is denied to them. The adjective “sulphurous” indicates pollution. The stone of the skyscrapers has weathered well against the climatic conditions.
Beauty of New York –
“New York! At first I was bewildered by your beauty,”
“No laugh from a growing child”
Nothing is deemed innocent here in this pretentious sophistication, pseudo-modern existence. No child’s laughter is to be heard, no mother suckling her baby. The poet goes out to criticize European art asserting that the painter’s palette is filled with crystals of coral. The nights in Manhattan are characterized by insomnia.
“ long-legged, golden girls”
“blue metallic eyes”
“icy smile”
The poet warns the superficial world to pay attention to the heeding of God-“signs and reckonings.” Senghor states that it was high time for manna and hyssop, the time for heavenly purity to descend on earth.
“Now is the time of manna and hyssop.”
Manna symbolizes the happiness of heaven. Hyssop that the blood of a bird offered in sacrifice is to be sprinkled for the cleansing of a man or a house affected with leprosy. The three sensory perceptions are subject to artificial stimulations. This is the only interval to the man delivering pharmaceutical products.
Artificiality
Cultural heritage
Life without interest
Birds don’t have home
Harlem is a neighbourhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, which since the 1920s has been a major African-American residential, cultural, and business center. It stands for the assimilation of the ”white rum” and “black milk. The masks adorned are “fabulous masks”
The third stanza picks up the tempo, and Senghor is earnestly imploring New York to “let black blood flow into your blood..” Senghor seeks to make New York aware of just how much of Africa’s culture is held within it. He encourages the people to “Let it give your bridges the curve of hips and supple vines. Idea links to action, the ear to the heart, sign to meaning. Means claims that unity is to be discovered in the reconciliation of the Lion, the Bull and the Tree.
“your world needs sweetening, child”
The air will not deny you. Like a top Spin you on the navel of the storm. The end becomes the means. The meaning of the journey no longer holds significance in a fast-forward life. In fact, they do not have possess a heritage at all; therefore, there is no need “to invent the mermaids” The steel articulations refer to the Industrial Revolution. Besides, it may also allude to the steel nerve of the colonizers.
“New York! I say New York, let the black blood flow into your blood Cleaning the rust from your steel articulations, like an “oil of life.” He tries to purify New York, by washing away the old being the rust and the tainted ways and bringing it back to it once was. Negritude into a people who were probably very closed off, and rallies his Negro brethren to take pride in their heritage. Do not have equal position Lets black blood flow on New York
Conclusion
All poets are uses this poem to convey his feelings, traditional African culture against western1 influences. Red are symbolically and the refrain reminds us again and again, that this Eve turns out to be the eve of Nigerian damnation.
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Works Cited
- Vajani Bhumi's Assignment. March 2014. <www.bhumivajani062013.blogspot.in>.
- http://prafulghareniyabatch2014-16.blogspot.in/2016/04/analysis-in-gabriel-oak-any-three-poem.html
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