Here i am sharing the presentation of New Literature. Topic is "Distortion of History: The Da Vinci Code, The Sense of an Ending, Padmaavat Movie"

1. Name: Gausvami Surbhi
Paper No: 13
Sem:4
Submitted to: Dr. Dilip Barad
Department of English
MKBU university
Enrollment No: 2069108420170008
Roll No: 22
E-mail id: gausvamisurbhi17@gmail.com
Batch year: 2016-18

3.  Mystery thriller novel
 Battle between the Priory
of Sion and Opus Dei
 Alternative religious
history
 Merovingian kings of
France
 The Holy Blood & Holy
Grail

4.  Mary Magdalene - who,
according to author
married Jesus and bore
his child.
 "The very first response
to this plot has to be
mockery and laughter,"
says Austin Ruse,
president of the Catholic
Family and Human
Rights Institute.

5.  Opus Dei is a secretive, even shady, organization.
 "Opus Dei is an institution of the Catholic church that tries
to help people come closer to God in their work and daily
lives”, "It has been blessed by all the popes since its earliest
years and Pope John Paul Second called Opus Dei's founder
'the saint of ordinary life.' -Brian Finnerty
 "It's an opportunity for us to form discussion groups in our
parishes, to explain some of the misconceptions The Da
Vinci Code has about the Church and it's a wonderful
opportunity for Catholics to talk about their faith in public.“-
Father Paul Keenan, a parish priest

6.  Opus Dei and monks
 Opus Dei and crime
 Opus Dei and corporal
mortification
 Opus Dei and women

7.  Da Vinci's painting The
Last Supper
 "one of you shall betray
me" -Jesus
 John, youngest of the
disciples
 Bible places John next to
Jesus and leaning on
him

8.  Jesus as Human Nature
 Gnostic portrayed Christ as a
heavenly being who came
down to earth to awaken
them from their spiritual
slumber by disclosing their
own divine inner nature.
 In reality, the Gnostics'
negativity about the body
includes a dim view of
procreation and the sexual
activity that went with it.
 Jesus is the ideal ascetic who
models for his followers a
disdain for bodily appetites

9.  Was Jesus married to
Mary Magdalene?
 The Nicene Council of 325
— which was indeed
organized by Constantine
on behalf of church
leaders. The Council was
convened to resolve
several major theological
disputes, none of which
involved Mary Magdalene,
matriarchy, feminism, new
gospels, or, for that
matter, Constantine.

10.  ’koinônos’ means simply friend or
associate
 Ehrman says. The text says Jesus kisses
Mary, but Jesus kissed all his disciples;
the gesture was not considered sexual.
 "Of the hundreds of professional New
Testament scholars whom I personally
know...there is not a single one, to my
knowledge, who finds the claims of the
book to be historically credible," -
Ehrman, chairman of the religious
studies department at the University of
North Carolina and author of Truth and
Fiction in the Da Vinci Code.

12.  ‘History is the lies of the Victors’
 ‘History is the Self-delusion of the defeated’
 ‘History is a raw onion sandwich’

13.  ‘We need to know history of the historian in order
to understand the version that is being put in front
of us’
 Adrian’s letter to Tony Webster
 Tony’s reply: ‘I advised him to be prudent, because
in my opinion Veronica had suffered damage a long
way back, I wished him good luck’

14.  ‘I hope you regret the day I introduced you. And I
hope when you break up, as you inevitably will, you
are left with a lifetime of bitterness that will poison
your subsequent relationship’
 Adrian’s diary: ‘so for instance, if Tony…..’
 Veronica’s interest

15.  “History is that certainty produced at the point
where the imperfection of memory meet the
inadequacies of documentation”
 ‘Robson’s Suicide’
 “Sorry, Mum’
 Tony’s imperfect memory

16.  ‘History isn’t the lies of the victors, as I once glibly
assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It’s more
the memories of the survivors, most of whom are
neither victorious nor defeated’- Tony Webster
 ‘We were already turning our past into anecdote’

18.  Barnes, Julian. "The Sense of An Ending." Barnes, Julian. The Sense of An
Ending. London: Jonathan Cape, 1990-1995. 150.
 Hurtado, Larry. Scholarly gripes about The Da Vinci Code's Jesus. 22 May
2006. 25 March 2018
<http://www.slate.com/articles/life/faithbased/2006/05/ungodly_erro
rs.html>.
 MA, Gary Byers. The Historical Basis of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code.
28 November 2005. 25 March 2018
<http://www.biblearchaeology.org/post/2005/11/28/The-Historical-
Basis-of-Dan-Browns-The-Da-Vinci-Code.aspx>.
 SHEAFFER, ROBERT. THE DA VINCI CODE CULT: A Critical Look at
Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code. 25 March 2018
<https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/the-davinci-code-cult/>.
 The Da Vinci Code, the Catholic Church and Opus Dei. 2 March 2006. 25
March 2018 <http://opusdei.org/en-in/article/message/>.