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1. The Da Vinci Code
Presented by -
Hetal Dabhi
Jyotiba Gohil
Mittalba Rayjada
Vidhya Pandya
Krishna Patel

2. • Full Title : The Da Vinci Code
• Author : Dan Brown
• Genre : Theology Fiction; Thriller –
Detective – Conspiracy Fiction
• Language : English

3. Dan Brown
• Dan Brown is the author.
• The DA Vinci Code, which has become one of the best
selling novels of intellectual debate among readers
and scholars.
• Brown’s novels are published in 56 languages around
the world with over 200 million copies in print.
• The son of a mathematics teacher and a church
organist, Brown was raised on a prep school campus
where he developed a fascination with the
paradoxical interplay between science and religion.
• These themes eventually formed the backdrop for his
books.
• He lives in New England with his wife.

4. Leonardo da Vinci
• Leonardo da Vinci was a true genius who graced this
world with his presence from April 15, 1452 to May 2,
1519.
• He is among the most influential artists in history,
having left a significant legacy not only in the realm of
art but in science as well, each discipline informing his
mastery of the other.
• Da Vinci lived in a golden age of creativity among
such contemporaries as Raphael and Michaelangelo,
and contributed his unique genius to virtually
everything he touched.
• Like Athens in the age of Pericles, Renaissance Italy is
a summit in human history.
• Today, no name better seems to symbolize
Renaissance age than Leonardo da Vinci.

5. Characters
Major Characters
&
Minor Characters

6. Major Characters

7. Robert Langdon
• A male protagonist of the novel, a professor of symbology at
Harvard, honest and trustworthy.
• A successful academic and a writer of several books. He is
interested to study religion but as an outsider or an observer
in matters of faith and is affectinate towards puzzles of all
kinds.
• He anchors the story.
• In the novel, the constant presence of Langdon is felt which
is reassuring. Although he is seen as a sex symbol in the
academic world, he is unfamiliar and inept with guns and
ammunition lacks to resolve planning and executing actions.
• He can imagine codes and symbols and can relate it to solve
riddles and figures out how to decieve the eyes of the
policemen in Louvre.

8. Sophie Neveu
• Sophie Neveu is the granddaughter of Jaques Sauniere,
and a very accomplished cryptographic working with the
police, and is able to comprehend her grandfather’s clues
that point to the real perpetrator.
• She has a great attitude for solving puzzles which her
grandfather employs to prepare for an event where she
has to be presented the truth of her origin.
• Sophie is not on talking terms with her grandfather as she
witnessed him in a religious sexual act which she
misunderstood as an orgy.
• As the plot progresses, she comes to realize her
grandfather’s role as the grandmother of Priory of Sion.

9. Bezu Fache
• Bezu Fache is the over zealous police captain
who misunderstands Jaques Saunere’s last
message and implicates Robert Langdon in
his murder.
• He is called ‘The Bull’ by his subordinates for
his tough demeanor. He is also very religious.
• He is very religiouis, arrogant and persistent.

10. Sir. Leigh Teabing/The Teacher
• Sir Leigh Teabing is a British historian and
lives in France in his search of the Holy Grail.
• He provides refuge to Robert and Sophie as
they escape Bezu Fache. He proves to be a
powerfully as he helps them escape the
country in his private jet and provides them
with information that proves to be useful in
their quest till his identity as the Teacher is
revealed.

11. Bishop Aringarosa
• Bishop Aringarosa is the worldwide head of the
notorious Christian sect, Opus Dei.
• He is radical in his thoughts and holds church at
fault for decreasing popularity of Christianity.
• He is religious and pious person but believes in
rigorous following of the religion which involves
the practice of corporal mortification.
• He provided refuge to Silas when he was
wounded and helpless and thus earned his
devotion.

12. Silas
• Silas is a monk in Opus Dei. He is a religious and
stern practitioner of the ways of Opus Dei and
performs elf loathing as well as binding of a
metal cilice around his thigh, rather excessively.
• He is an albino and thus became a cause for his
father to abuse his mother. He later killed his
father and lived the life of a homeless person.
• Aringarosa recruiters him as an assassin to the
Teacher unknowingly as when he feels Opus Dei
to be threatened by the Church.

13. Remy Legaludec
• Remy is the personal butler of Sir Leigh
Teabing but is also used as muscle by Teabing
for his escapades as Teacher.
• Remy is a petty thief and was recruited by
Teabing to do his leg work.
• Remy suffers from a severe peanut allagery
which Teabing uses to murder him later in
the book.

14. Minor Characters
• Altar Boy
• Air Traffic Controller
• Bishop Manuel
Aringarosa
• Sister Sandrine Bieil
• Little Brother / Rosslyn
Docent
• Marie Chauvel
• Simon Edward
• Jonas Faukman
• Pamela Gettum
• Claude Grouard
• Hotel Concierge
• Kent Chief Inspector
• Father Mangano
• Monique
• Vittoria

15. The Priory of Sign
• There is a secret society
known as The Priory of
Sion, which has a long
history starting in 1099,
and had illustrious Grand
Master including Leonardo
da Vinci and Issac Newton;
it creataed the knights
Templar as its military arm
and financial branch.
Opus Dei
• Opus Dei , which claims
85,000 members in 60
countries, is a theologically
conservative movement that
seeks to integrate work and
religion. Its main
representative in The Da
Vinci Code is a murderous
albino monk , although in fact
members wear normal
clothes and do ordinary jobs.

17. The Da Vinci Code
• The Da Vinci Code is a 2003 mystery detective novel written
by Dan Brown.
• It follows symbologist Robert Langdon and 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 Vinci’s famous
drawing, the Virtuvian Man, with a cryptic message writen
beside his body and a pentacle drawn on his chest in his own
blood.

18. • The Novel is part of the exploration of alternative religious
history, whose central plot point is that the Merovingian
kings of France were descendents from the bloodline of
Jesus Christ and Mary Megdalene, ideas derived from Clive
Prince’s The Templer Revelation and books by Margaret
Starbird.
• As the story progresses, Langdon finds himself on the run
from the French police, along with Sophie Neveu, accused of
murdering four public faces, and stealing a package from the
Swiss bank.
• The package which he has now, is actually a map – a kryptos,
designed by Jacques Sauniere, that leads to the hiding of the
holy grail.
• The rest of the story lies on how Robert and Sophie evade
the French Police, and break The Da Vinci Code.

19. Theme

20. What is theme?
• The most common contemporary
understanding of theme is an idea or
point that is central to a story, which can
often be summed in a single word.

21. Themes
• The False Conflict between faith and
knowledge
• The subjectivity of History
• The intelligence of women
• Motifs
• Ancient and Foreign Languages
• Art
• Sexism

22. Symbols

23. What is symbol
• A symbol is a mark, signor word that
indicates, signifies, or is understood as
representing an idea , object, or relationship.
• Symbols take the form of words, sounds,
gestures, ideas or visual images and are used
to convey other ideas and beliefs.

24. The Pentagram
• The next recognized symbol in all of satanism
& the Occult in the pentagram.
• The pentagram is very important in the Da
Vinci Code. The Da Vinci Code opens with the
murder of Jacques Sauniere.
• This symbol is one of the most powerful
images you will see this term. Formally
known as a pentagram or pentacle as the
ancient called it – [ chapter – 20, pg. 132]

28. The symbol of SATAN : The
BAPHOMET
• While some may argue the pentagram is not inherently evil,
there exists one symbol that none can dispute it’s innate evil
the Baphomet. The Baphomet is normally represented as a
goat’s head in the shape of a pentagram. The Baphomet has
no equal in the hellish halls of Satanism.
• The Baphomet is usually symbolized as a pentagram with a
goat’s head drawn within the pentagram.
• Baphomet’s head was represented as that of a ram or goat, a
common symbol of procreation and fecundity. The Templars
honored Baphomet by encircling a stone replica of his head
and chanting prayers.

29. Rose
• Images of a rose ocuur throughout the text.
Rose appear as engraved symbols, as
supposed decorations leading to the Grail.
• The rose is also represented in a more
abstract form, such as the pentacle and the
Star of David.
• In all cases the rose refers to the divine
feminine , especially to Mary Magdalene.

30. Symbol of Rose Line

33. Holy Grail
• Holy Grail is the literal meaning of Sangreal.
• The phrase derives from the French,
Sangreal, which evolved to Sangreal and was
eventually split into two words.
• San + greal ( chapter – 38 pg.219)

37. The last Supper
• At the heart of Brown’s novel is the story that
Da Vinci hid a major clue in his masterpiece THE
LAST SUPPER.
• On reexamining the painting. It’s discovered that
sitting at Jesus’ right hand is Mary Magdalene,
not as is commonly believed, the apostle John.
• In Addition, the famous cup from which christ
drank, The Holy Grail, is conspicuously left out
of the painting.

38. Mona Lisa
• Another clue in the novel is seen in one of da
Vinci’s MONA LISA which langdon states is an
expression of the artist’s belief in the sacred
feminine.
• The conclusion drawn is that Mona Lisa is not
any particular person , but a cryptic reference
to the Egyptian gods Amon and Isis. “Mona”
is an anagram of Amon ad “Lisa” a
contraction of I’Isa, ,meaning Isis.

39. The Blade
• Blade is symbolic of Male.
• It regards Symbology of the Grail: original
sign for a male was ‘U.
• It represents aggression and Manhood.

40. Fibonacci Sequences
• The Fibonacci sequences describes a natural growth
pattern common to all life, as seen in the structure of a
nautilus shell.
• Dan Brown features the Fibonacci sequences as one of
the many dues left behind by Jacques Sauniere, the
Louvre curator.
• The puzzle is instantly recognized and unscrambled by his
cryptologist granddaughter.
• It’s only later discovered that Sauniere’s deposit box
account number at the Zurich bank is the Fibonacci
sequence numbers, arranged in the correct order.

41. Bibliography

42. • (S. Phillips)
• Bibliography
• Phillips, Stone. nbcnews.
<http://www.nbcnews.com/id/7491383/ns/dateline_nbc/t/secrets-behind-da-
vinci-code/#.Xg8FokczbIU>.
• Phillips, Stones. nbcnews.
• In this article told about the mysterious gaze of the Mona Lisa, a museum
curator is gunned down. The gunman is a towering albino monk, but police
suspect the murderer is a Harvard professor of religious symbols and art. The
professor embarks on a journey through ancient history art, and the Bible, and
the discovery of dangerous truths hidden for 2,000 years secrets, that if
revealed, could “devastate the very foundation of Christianity.” “The DA Vinci
Code” is of course, fiction but readers are told right from the start that all
description of artwork, architecture, documents and secret rituals in this novel
are accurate. Also told about Jesus and Mary Magdalene.The monk kills the
curator in a quest for the legendary Holy Grail, a mythical vessel often thought
of as the cup that Jesus drank from at the Last Supper. To understand that secret
and to separate fact from fiction in The Da Vinci Code we pieced together a
portrait of he novel’s key figure, a woman who lived 2,000 years ago: Mary
Magdalene.

44. • (Veltman)
• Bibliography
• Veltman, Kim H. Leonardo Da Vinci: A Review. 2008.
<https://www.jstor.org/stable/20206632?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents>.
•
• In this article told about Leonardo Da Vinvi. His notes had tens of thousands of
drawings, ranging from tiny rough sketches to very carefully composed
presentation drawing. Printing at the time could not deal seriously with complex
technical and scientific drawings. By the time the technology had begun to catch
up, namely in the 1540s, Leonardo was dead, and his student Francesco Melzi
wasa getting order. He also talked about society (“printing at the time could not
deal seriously with complex technical and scientific drawings, editions, Art,
Technology, models, science ( A team of young engineers connected with the
Museum at Vinci are re examining the critical contributions of existing models
and creating new ones), new visions, historygraphy (A systematic catalogue
raisonne of everything Leonardo did, with a record of owners over the centuries,
has yet to be done), new museums? Lexicon, electronic versions. The past
century has revealed that Leonardo owed much to classical and medieval sources,
artist engineers in the tradition of Brunelleschi and contemporary artist engineers
such as Francesco di Giorgio Maertini.

45. • (Louis)
• Bibliography
• Louis, Hughes. Theology Fiction : The Da Vinci Code. 2005.
<https://www.jstor.org/stable/27665219?seq=1>.
• The novel is the best known work of theology fiction. Sales have passed the twenty million
mark and a film, starring Tom Hanks, is in the pipeline. However, mark and a film, starring
Tom Hanks, is in the pipeline. However, many of its readers, while coming for the
entertainment, are taking its historical and theological assertions for real. Brown himself
fostered these illusions by placing at the beginning of his text a page in enlarged print
entitled ‘Fact’. These ‘facts’ include assertions that all descriptions of artwork, architecture,
documents and secret rituals in the novel are accurate, and that the “ Priory of Sion” is a
real organization. Theology fiction can appear either in the form of a novel or as pseudo
academic work. Both involve revelations that are designed to startle rather than
enlighten., such as the existence of cover up by Church authorities of the real truth about
Jesus,his mother Mary and the early development of the Christian community. Or one can
be told of ominous message concealed within the text of the Hebrew Bible. Elements of
science fiction are sometimes added. However, neither science fiction as such nor fantasy
writings such as Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings are included here. Some theological
questions and answers are given in this article.
• Was Jesus married to Mary Magdalene?
• Did Jesus Intend in the Magdalene to lead his Church?
• Was Jesus Recognized as divine only in the fourth century?

46. • (Benjamin)
• Bibliography
• Benjamin, Olshin B. Sophistical Devices: Leonardo Da Vinci's Investigations of
Perpetual Motion. 2009. <https://www.jstor.org/stable/23787091?seq=1>.
• In this article told about Leonardo’s drawings. His drawings are very well known
but they are not necesssarily well understood. Leonardo used the pages of his
notebooks as a method of visual thinking, to investigate and work out problems
in everything from mechanics to hydraulics. Leonardo used this same method to
investigate the possibility or impossibility of perpatual motion. In many of the
folio pages, we find pictures and texts dealing with a range of designs for
perpetual motion machines powered by weights or water. This papers examins
Leonardo’s investigations of the belief in perpetual motion, a belief that already
had a long history by the time he began his studies. Finallly , this paper reveals
that Leonardo carried out his investigations in a detailed and systematic, if at
times episodic, manner over a period of years. It also argues that he used his folio
drawings to both depict perpetual motion devices and to articulate the problems
and impossibilities that such schemes presesnted.

47. • (KAPLAN)
• Bibliography
• KAPLAN, Hassan. sometimes a cigar is just a cigar: a psychobiographic study on
Leonardo's religious identity.
<https://www.academia.edu/36035705/Sometimes_a_Cigar_is_Just_a_Cigar_a_
Psychobiographic_Study_on_Leonardos_Religious_Identity>.
• Laonardo da vinci is a mysterious figure whose name arouses curiosity and stirs
controversy. His religious identity in particular has been a matter of an
overlooked archival record about Leonardo’s travel to the East with the
implication of his conversation to the “Mohammedan” faith that puts a new spin
on the controversy developed around the name of Leonardo and stimulates our
curiocity further. The details of this largely unknown journey are so rich that they
compel us to reconsider some claims of The Da Vinci Code, especially in relation
to Leonardo’s religious identity. Thus , guided by an Eriksonian insight, this study
re examines the life of Leonardo by analyzing some psycho social issues in his
young adult years. This essay brings forth various biographical data that points to
a tragic life of a young outcast who was estranged from his community: a talented
artist who was unappreciated and unemployed; and an eccentric free spirit in
total crisis of identity.

48. • (Haouam)
• Bibliography
• Haouam, Mohamed Nadjib. A Fminist Reading of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code.
<https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6698/8ceb8ed39ab5583c29a1df697e0f96be83
45.pdf>.
•
• this essay deals with the representation of women in The Da Vinci Code. The
ponts tackled within this work are the ways that the writer used to portray
women. These women have been presented as characters who are empowered
as strong women either being depicted as educated members of society or
holding important jobs like keeper of important institutions as a church or an
agent of DCPJ, a job where smartness is a prerequisite. There are many symbols
like the Mona Lisa that are used in order to convey Brown’s idea abut women
empowerment. The theme of gender equality was also explored as the
protagonists were a man and a woman. In the first chapter, the reader will be
introduced to a movement often misunderstood, namely Feminism, as well as the
different waves of feminism, feminist literary criticism and a brief explanation of
Feminist theology. The second chapter is a Feminist analysis of the different
elements in The Da Vinci Code with particular interest on the empowerment and
marginalisation of women.

49. • (JANAH)
• Bibliography
• .
• JANAH, SITI ROIHATUL. Divine Feminine: Sophie Nevue's Character in Dan
Brown's The Da Vinci Code.
<https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a36a/5a11e288d1926d483dde16fc126bf8d08c
53.pdf>.
•
• In this research paper we can find the analysis of ccontroversial novel entitled
The Da Vinci Code. This research aims to discover how Sophie Neveu’s effort’s
and struggles are to uncover her family’s secret, and how the influences of her
efforts and struggles on male domination and female subordination. This
research uses liberal feminism theory based on Rosemary Tong’s classification.
Tong classifies liberal feminism into some parts. They are the equal education,
freedom, politics, sexuality and economy, and the similarities and differences
between women and men. Liberal feminism brings the equal right between
women and men. We can see Sophie’s struggles to uncover her family secret are
paid worthy by finding her lost family’s secret. And also Sophie as the descendant
of Jesus and Mary Magdalene makes the Holy Grail seeker become confused to
decide the right decision whether to reveal the Holy Grail secret or not. Sophie’s
struggle to find out her family secret and to break the mystery of Holy Grail
describe women’s struggles to reach the right she deserves.

50. • (Maddux)
• Bibliography
• Maddux, Kristy. The Da Vinci Code and regressivegender politics of celebrating
women. 15 july 2008.
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15295030802192004>.
• The public outcry prompted by The da Vinci Code (TDVC) accused the novel of
being a “radical feminist” text with potentially dangerous implications for
Christianity. The novel celebrates women, the “sacred feminine,” and “goddess
worship,” which, on one level, gives it ideological kinship with the important
tradition of difference or cultural feminism. This analysis, however, argues that
the novel undercuts its feminist moves through its persistent recourse to the
private sphere and its unremitting celebration of the biological. The narrative falls
victim to the problem that commonly inheres in difference/cultural feminism: it
reifies the binary system of gender as well as the resulting heterosexuality.
Through these anti-feminist impulses, TDVC makes plain that celebrating women
does not always make for feminist progress. Instead, TDVC highlights the dangers
inherent in cultural/difference feminism. Finally, situated within its religious
context, TDVC demonstrates the possibility for feminism's co-optation by moral
reform politics.

51. • (Ebert)
• Bibliography
• Ebert, Roger. The Da Vinci Code. 18 May 2006.
<https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-da-vinci-code-2006>.
•
• In this article we can find the movie review of The Da Vinci Code by Roger
Ebert. What Ron Howard brings to the material is tone and style, and an
aura of mystery that is undeniable. He begins right at the top; Columbia
pictures logo falls into shadow as Hans Zimmer’s music sounds
simultaneously liturgicul and ominous. The movie involving , intringuing
and constantly seems on the edge of startling revelations. After it’s over
and we were back on the street, we wonder why this crucial secret
needed to be protected by the equivalent of a brain- twister puzzle
crossed with a scavenger hunt. The trail that Robert and Sophie follow is
so difficult and convoluted that it seems impossible that anyone, including
them, could over follow it. The secret needs to be protected up to a point;
beyond that it is absolutely lost, and the whole point of protecting it is
beside the point.

52. • (Brown)
• Bibliography
• Brown, Dan. The Da Vinci Code.
<https://danbrown.com/the-davinci-code/>.
•
• In this website we can find the reviews about The
Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. Bizarre facts : the
secret life of Leonardo da Vinci, An Unbroken
Code, 243 Lexington Avenue, New York, someone
is watching you…or are they?, Da Vinci’s slap on
the wrist.

53. Dan Brown
• https://www.facebook.com/The-Da-Vinci-
code-by-Dan-Brown-2007-
112809515459742/?epa=SEARCH_BOX

54. Movie – The Da Vinci Code

55. Question Answers

56. Jyotiba Gohil
• Robert was not involved in murder but police
officers think that he killed Sauniere how
smartly and intelligently he crack all the
codes and search all the history of Jesus . So
in terrible situation we can’t escape far from
the situation but we fight the situation and
find the path to come out this situation . We
have to be ready to face all types of
problems.

57. (White) (Unscrambling The Da vinci Code)
(Brown)
(Brown, Dan Brown)
(Giannini)
(Hughes)
(Lacy)
(Kennedy)
(Watkins)
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