Exploring Alternative Religious History - The Da Vinci Code

1. Exploring Alternative History –
The Da Vinci Code
Prepared & Presented by
Parth Bhatt
Roll No. 15,
Semester IV
Paper –XIII: The New Literature
eng_dept_bu@googlegroups.com

2. Feminine Sacredness
• Decentered Structures
• Literary Devices:
– Symbols, Myths, Holy
Texts and Historical
Evidence
• Priory of Sion
• Questioned Miltonic
Biblical ideas

4. Sang Real
• New Historicism and
Epistemology
– Stephen Greenblatt
– Michel Foucault
• Sarcophagus
• Archetypes used in the
text
• “Map limits it’s
territory”

5. Ontological Argument
• Existence of God in
Christian Theology
• Anselm of Canterbury in
1078
• Anselm defined God as
"that than which nothing
greater can be conceived",
and then argued that this
being could exist in the
mind. He suggested that, if
the greatest possible being
exists in the mind, it must
also exist in reality.

6. Epistemology
Epistemology Agna Chakra

7. Concluding Remark
For every one that
asketh receiveth;
and he that seeketh
findeth; and to him
that knocketh it
shall be opened.
(Matthew 7:7–8)

8. Source
• Goddess Wiki
• God Google
• www.danbrown.com
• Angel Jstor, and
• My class notes

9. Thank you!
• The presentation is submitted to Department of
English, MKBU
• Your patience is appreciated