The document provides a detailed analysis of Dan Brown's novel 'The Da Vinci Code', including key facts, characters, themes, and a plot summary. It explores the conflict between faith and knowledge and the significance of symbols and motifs, while introducing major characters like Robert Langdon and Sophie Neveu. The narrative intertwines historical elements with modern storytelling, addressing issues of sexism and spirituality.

2. Drashti Dave
Khanjaniba Gohil
Kinjal Patel
Lajja Bhatt
Namrata Gohil
Sardarsinh Solanki
Group Work
S.B. Gardi,
Department of English,
M.K.Bhavnagar University.
Bhavnagar(Gujarat-India).

3. Key Facts
• FULL TITLE · The Da Vinci Code
• AUTHOR · Dan Brown
• TYPE OF WORK · Novel
• GENRE · Thriller
• LANGUAGE · English
• TIME AND PLACE WRITTEN · Early
twenty-first century; the United States

4. • DATE OF FIRST
PUBLICATION · March 2003
• PUBLISHER · Doubleday
• NARRATOR · Third-person, anonymous,
omniscient narrator
• POINT OF VIEW · The narrator speaks
from the point of view of several
characters, describing what they see
and hear. The narrator also provides
background information and pieces of
knowledge unknown to other characters.

5. • TONE · Objective, earnest
• TENSE · Past
• SETTING · The present day
• PLACE · Paris, France; Versailles,
France; London, England; outskirts of
Edinburgh, Scotland
• PROTAGONISTS · Robert Langdon;
Sophie Neveu

6. • THEMES · The false conflict between
faith and knowledge; the subjectivity of
history; the intelligence of women
• MOTIFS · Ancient and foreign
languages; art; sexism
• SYMBOLS · Red hair; blood; cell phones

7. • FORESHADOWING · Teabing’s
questions to Sophie about whether she
would reveal the secret to the world if
she had the choice foreshadows the
later revelation of Teabing’s obsession
with the necessity of revelation. Rémy’s
slowness in helping Teabing when Silas is
assaulting him foreshadows his
involvement with Silas and his desire to
steal the keystone.

8. Plot of the novel
Rising Action
Climax
Falling Action
The protagonists attempt to interpret
the message left behind by Jacques
Sauniere and find the hidden secret of
the Priory of Sion.
Leigh Teabing reveals himself as
the man behind the murders of the
Priory of Sion and Langdon and
Sophie discover who killed Jacques
Sauniere.
The protagonists go to
Rosslyn Chapel, where they
discover Sophie’s family.
Langdon goes to the Louvre,
where he discovers what he
thinks is the resting place of
the Grail.

9. • Time : Early twenty- first century
• Place : United State, Paris, France,
London, Scotland.
• Action : Unity of action is mention
sometimes
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMb
a3fckhuQ
• This link is about the movie of The Da
Vinci Code….

11. Plot Summary of the Da Vinci
Code
• Louvre curator and Priory of Sion Grand
Master Jacques Sauniere is fatally shot
one night at the museum by an albino
Catholic monk named Silas, who is
working on behalf of someone he knows
only as the teacher, who wishes to
discover the location of the Keystone,
an item crucial to the search for the
Holy Grail.

12. • After Sauniere’s body is discovered in
the pose of the Vitruvian Man, the
police summon Harvard Professor
Robert Langdon, who is town on
business.
• Police Captain Bezu Fache tells him that
he was summoned to help the police
decode the cryptic message Sauniere
left during the final minutes of his life.
• The message includes a Fibonacci
sequence out of order.

13. • Langdon explains of Fache that Sauniere
was leading authority on the subject of
goddess artwork and that pentacle
Sauniere drew I his own blood represents
an allusion to the goddess and not “ devil
worship”, as Fache says.
• A police cryptographer, Sophie Neveu,
secretly explains to Langdon that she is
Sauniere's estranged granddaughter, and
that Fache thinks Langdon is the
murderer, because her grandfather's
message said "PS Find Robert Langdon",
which she says Fache had erased prior to
Langdon's arrival.

14. • Neveu is troubled by memories of her
grandfather's involvement in a secret
pagan group. However, she understands
that her grandfather intended Langdon to
decipher the code, which she and Langdon
find leads them to a safe deposit box at
the Paris branch of the Depository Bank of
Zurich.
• Neveu and Langdon escape from the police
and visit the bank. In the safe deposit box
they find the keystone: a cryptex, a
cylindrical, hand-held vault with five
concentric, rotating dials labeled with
letters. When these are lined up correctly,
they unlock the device.

15. • If the cryptex is forced open, an enclosed vial
of vinegar ruptures and dissolves the message
inside the cryptex, which was written on
papyrus.
• The box containing the cryptex contains clues
to its password.
• Langdon and Neveu take the keystone to the
house of Langdon's friend, Sir Leigh Teabing,
an expert on the Holy Grail.

16. • There, Teabing explains that the Grail is
not a cup, but a tomb containing the bones
of Mary Magdalene.
• The trio then flees the country on
Teabing's private plane, on which they
conclude that the proper combination of
letters spell out Neveu's given name,
"SOFIA.“
• Opening the cryptex, they discover a
smaller cryptex inside it, along with
another riddle that ultimately leads the
group to the tomb of Isaac
Newtonin Westminster Abbey.

17. • During the flight to Britain, Neveu reveals the
source of her estrangement from her grandfather,
ten years earlier.
• Arriving home unexpectedly from university,
Neveu clandestinely witnesses a spring fertility
rite conducted in the secret basement of her
grandfather's country estate.
• From her hiding place, she is shocked to see her
grandfather having sex with a woman at the
center of a ritual attended by men and women
who are wearing masks and chanting praise to
the goddess.

18. • She flees the house and breaks off all
contact with Saunière.
• Langdon explains that what she witnessed
was an ancient ceremony known as Hieros
gamos or "sacred marriage".
• By the time they arrive at Westminster
Abbey, Teabing is revealed to be the
Teacher for whom Silas is working.
• Teabing wishes to use the Holy Grail, which
he believes is a series of documents
establishing that Jesus
Christ married Mary Magdalene and bore
children, in order to ruin the Vatican.

19. • He compels Langdon at gunpoint to solve
the second cryptex's password, which
Langdon realizes is "APPLE”.
• Langdon secretly opens the cryptex and
removes its contents before destroying it
in front of Teabing.
• Teabing is arrested by Fache, who by now
knows that Langdon was innocent.
• Bishop Aringarosa, realizing that Silas has
been used to murder innocent people,
rushes to help the police find him.

20. • When the police find Silas hiding in an
Opus Dei Center, he assumes that they are
there to kill him, and he rushes out,
accidentally shooting Bishop Aringarosa.
• Bishop Aringarosa survives but is informed
that Silas was found dead later from a
bullet wound.
• The final message inside the second
keystone leads Neveu and Langdon
to Rosslyn Chapel, whose docent turns out
to be Neveu's long-lost brother, whom
Neveu had been told died as a child in the
car accident that killed her parents.

21. • The guardian of Rosslyn Chapel, Marie
Chauvel Saint Clair, is Neveu's long-lost
grandmother.
• It is revealed that Neveu is a
descendant of Jesus Christ and Mary
Magdalene.
• The Priory of Sion hid her identity to
protect her from possible threats to
her life.

22. • The real meaning of the last message is
that the Grail is buried beneath the
small pyramid directly below the inverted
glass pyramid of the Louvre.
• It also lies beneath the "Rose Line," an
allusion to "Roslyn."
• Langdon figures out this final piece to the
puzzle in the last pages of the book, but he
does not appear inclined to tell anyone
about this.

23. Analysis of characters

24. Major
characters:
Robert
Langdon
Sophie
Neveu
Sir Leigh
Teabing

25. Minor characters:
• 1. Jacques Saunière
• 2. Bishop Manuel Aringarosa
• 3. Silas
• 4. Bezu Fache
• 5. Andre Vernet
• 6. Remy Legaludec
• 7. Jerome Collet
• 8. Marie Chauvel Saint Clair
• 9. Sister Sandrine
• 10. Pamela Gettum
• 11. Claude Grouard
• 12. Simon Edwards
• 13. Jonas Faukman

26. 1) Robert Langdon
• Robert Langdon is a
fictional character created
by author Dan Brown for his
novels Angels & Demons
(2000), The Da Vinci Code
(2003), The Lost Symbol
(2009) and Inferno (2013) .
• He is likable, capable, good
hearted and trustworthy.
• Successful writer of
several books.
• Outstanding imaginative
capability

27. 2) Sophie Neveu:
• Sophie Neveu is the granddaughter
of Louvre curator Jacques Saunière.
She is a French National Police
cryptographer.
• Her grandfather used to call her
"Princess Sophie" and trained her to
solve complicated word puzzles.
• Sophie is a coupled with
masculine toughness with
feminine qualities.
• Neveu’s presence in the novel
embodies the Chinese idea of
yin and yang.
• she is one of the major players who
attempt to crack her grandfather’s
code. She is also a descendent of
Jesus and Mary Magdalene.

28. 3) Sir Leigh Teabing:
• A former British Historian who
studies history of Christianity.
• Antagonist
• Known as teacher
• An eccentric old man crippled by
polio. He spent his whole life
searching for the holy Grail.
• He can willingly go to any
extremities to get what he
wants, no matter at what cost.
• At the end police arrest him.

29. 4) Silas:
• An albino numeracy of the
Catholic organization Opus
Dei.
• The novel depicts him as a
monk, although Opus Dei has
no monks. Silas's real name
is unknown.
• A young Spanish priest
named Manuel Aringarosa,
who gave him the name
Silas.
• In his last moments, Silas
goes out to alone and prays
to God for mercy and
forgiveness.

30. 5) Jacques Saunière:
• Is the curator of the
Louvre, head of the
secret Priory of Sion
• Murdered by Silas
• Saunière uses the last
minutes of his life to
arrange a series of
clues for his estranged
granddaughter, Sophie,
to unravel the mystery
of his death and
preserve the secret
kept by the Priory of
Sion.

31. 6) Bezu Fache:
• Fache is a captain in
the Direction Central
de la Police
Judiciaries (DCPJ),
the French national
criminal-investigation
police
• Strong and confident
• Believe that Langdon
is responsible for
Saunière's death
• Faith in use of
technology.

32. 7) Bishop Aringarosa:
• Bishop of Opus Dei
• Traditionalist in his
religious views..
• Fondness of
material things.
• Kind to Silas
• By mistake Silas
shut him.

33. 8) André Vernet:
• President of the
depository bank of
Zurich.
• Minor role- quite
intelligent or
attractive
character.

34. • 9) Sister Sandrine Bieil: Nun and keeper of the Church of Saint-
Sulpice
Favors modernizing structure of the Church. Killed by Silas.
• 10) Jerome Collet: Agent with the French Judicial Police.
Commits numerous errors. Believed in Sophie’s innocence. At the
end he proved that.
• 11) Simon Edwards: The executive services officer of Biggin Hill,
desire of the rich.
• 12) Jonas Faukman: Langdon’s editor. Eager to make money , classic
man.
• 13) Pamela Gettum: The religious librarian , kind soul, help Sophie
and Langdon.
• 14) Claude Grouard: A security warden at the Louvre.

35. • 15) Remy Legaludec: Teabing’s loyal
butler, only one who know the secret of
Teabing’s identity.
• 16) Marie Chauvel Saint Clair: Guardian
of Rosslyn Chapel, Neveu’s long-lost
grandmother.

37. Battle
• It takes place between the Priory of
Sion and Opus Dei.
• Over the possibility of Jesus having
been married to Mary Magdalene.

38. Bloodshed and mystery
• Leonardo Da Vinci’s painting the Vitruvian
Man, with a cryptic message in itself has
mystery and pentagram drawn on his chest
in his own blood.
• Sophie Neveu clandestinely witnesses a
spring fertility rite conducted in the
secret basement of her grandfather’s
country estate.
• Teabing is revealed to be the teacher for
whom Silas is working.

39. David Lazarus of The San
Francisco Chronicle
“ This story has so many twists- all
satisfying, most unexpected- that it
would be a sin to reveal too much of the
plot in advance. Let’s just say that if this
novel doesn’t get your pulse racing, you
need to check your meds”.

40. Holistic spirituality for human
kind
• Langdon’s reflection in chapter-28-
“Mother earth had become a man’s world
and the gods of destruction and war were
taking their toll…”
• There was period in which “Matriarchal
paganism” ruled over the world.
• Jesus taught the reunion of the feminine
and masculine aspects of reality
• “Why do some people choose to believe to
lie or speculative ideas???”

41. Paganism
• Dan Brown contends that so much of
what we know of Christianity has its
roots in pagan worship.
• These mystery religions emphasized
personal salvation, illumination and
eternal life through.
• Discovered truth about the Priory Sion.

42. Codes
• Dan Brown has given a reference in which
Sir Isaac Newton has been mentioned.
• Moreover to unlock the box Sophie matches
some number which the secret code to blast
the history of Jesus and Mary Magdalene.
• Dan Brown’s father was also a great
mathematician, so indirectly this method
has been connected to his personal
interests.
• Considered as the heart of the novel “The
Da Vinci Code”.

43. Motifs
• Definition:
Motifs are recurring
structures, contrasts or literary devices
that can help to develop and inform the
text’s major themes.

44. Ancient and Foreign Language
• English is modern language or we can say
that it is the language which is spoken by
many people.
• But in the text Prof. Langdon and Teabing
uses the Hebrew language as a clue to
enrich to the truth and mystery.
• Dead sea scroll Hebrew from the 3rd
century BCE To the 1st century CE,
Corresponding in the period before the
destruction of the temple in Jerusalem.

45. • Also called as Qumran Hebrew.
• Which is in use still in today.
• But it is also took place in biblical
references.
• As it is written in the Christianity.

46. Art and Sexism in “Da Vinci Code”
Art keeps secrets in its way of
hiding and expressing the things.
Sexist characters are always
suspect(not as expected).

48. Symbols are objects,
characters, figures, or colors
used to represent abstract
ideas or concepts.

49. Symbolism gives a writer freedom to add double
levels of meanings to his work
Literary
Self-Evident
Symbolic
More profound
than Literary

50.  The symbolism gives universality to the characters and the
themes of a piece of literature.
 Symbolism in literature evokes interest in readers as they
find an opportunity to get an insight of the writer’s mind on
how he views the world and how he thinks of common
objects and actions, having broader implications.

51. Chalice
Blade
Mickey
Mouse
Watch

52. The
Pentagram
Sauniere’s
Knight
Cell
Phones

53. Mona Lisa:
Painting
Vitruvian
Man
The Rose

54.  Chalice is symbolic of woman was ‘U’.
 The famous cup from which Christ drank.
 The Chalice represents a cup or vessel, and the womb;
represents womanhood and fertility- the sacred feminine.
 The Holy Grail is conspicuously left out of the painting:
Last Supper.
 Here is where Brown cleverly weaves medieval legends
with high Renaissance art to suggest that the Holy Grail -
which became the subject of endless search by medieval
knights - was not a cup at all but Mary Magdalene herself,
the human receptacle for Jesus' blood line.

55.  Blade is symbolic of male.
 It regards Symbology of the Grail: original sign for a
male was ‘U’.
 It represents aggression and manhood.

56.  It reminds him of how his interest in symbology began.
 Langdon also talks to his classes about how remnants
of the Grail story are found in Disney stories.
 Disney symbolized in the Mickey watch, exemplifies
the importance of magic and imagination for people.
 Disney World, according to Langdon, is built upon
make-believe, infused with bits of hidden truth.
 These fantastical stories are not unlike Grail
mythology or religion (as it is portrayed in the novel).
 Disney, like Grail stories and like religion, is not
necessarily true but it gives people something much
more important--mystery and wonderment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THWrno6lBUQ
 Video about Religious Symbols by Robert Langdon

57.  Sauniere has drawed five lines on his body with his
own blood.
 The Pentagram is a symbol of beauty and perfection
and is connected to the goddess and the Holy Lady.
 In Modern times the Pentagram has been connected
to Satanism.
“It’s a pentacle. One of the oldest symbols on
earth. Used for over four thousand years before
Christ. . . The pentacle is a pre Christian symbol
that relates to nature worship”.
(Da Vinci Code pp. 35, 36)

58.  The knight that sits in Saunière’s office is an ironic
symbol.
 knights are supposed to protect the Grail but this
knight, which Teabing has bugged, betrays the Grail.
 This “betrayal” illustrates two interrelated points:
 When Langdon tells Sophie about Teabing, he remarks
there is no one better to help them on the quest for
the Grail than a knight.
1.All knights
cannot be
trusted.
2.Things are
not always
what they
seem.
Teabing

59.  But the cell phone symbolizes the fact that in the
modern world, secrets are both harder and easier to
keep.
 Teabing conceals his identity as the Teacher by using
cellphones to communicate with his unknowing allies.
 In one instance, he even speaks to
Silas from the back of the limousine while Silas is in the
front, concealing his identity while only feet away.
 At the same time, however, the characters are often
worried about
their cell phone use being traced.

60.  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 and "Lisa" a contraction of l'Isa, meaning
Isis.
 In the novel, Professor Langdon discovers that da
Vinci painted the Mona Lisa in opposition to the
Church's suppression of Mary Magdalene's true
identity.

61.  Leonardo da Vinci's most famous drawings is based
upon the work of ancient Roman architect Vitruvius
who was a proponent of using human proportion in
building.
 In the novel's opening scene, Sauniere's body is found
in the Louvre naked and posed like the Vitruvian Man,
with a cryptic message written beside his body. It is
the first clue that Professor Langdon receives that
prods him to delve more deeply into other works of da
Vinci that helps solve the mystery.

62.  The Rose synonymous with the Grail in the Priory of
Sion: also means secrecy.
 Sub rosa-under the rose= the Romans hung a rose
over meeting room to indicate the meeting was
confidential.
 Rosa Rugosa, one of the oldest species of rose had 5
petals and pentagonal symmetry giving it
iconographical ties to womanhood.
 Rose in sense of true direction and navigating one’s
way, as in the compass rose.
 Rose lines is the line of longitude on maps.
 In Priory of Sion the 5-petal rose is the symbol for
the Grail.

64. • 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’
• Boundary 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

65. Use of Science & Mathematics
• His father was mathematician
• Use of Fibonacci series
• Use of PHI as Dexine number.
• Scientifically tries to legitimize the myth.
• establish new myths related to Pagan religion
• Nature and Math's
• Alphabets and math
• The Vitruvian Man
• The Last Supper
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mcpHsuTm_E
• This link is about the last supper video……

66. Use of Paintings
The last Supper

67. Use of Paintings
The Vitruvian Man
Mona Lisa

68. 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?

69. 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.

70. 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 Scrolls done 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 Emperor 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 evidence that Constantine or anyone else

71. 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

72. 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

73. 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%20Cod
e%20Is%20Overtly%20Feminist.htm
• Through this link one can find the feminism that is read in the
book Da Vinci Code.

74. • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Langdo
n
• http://danbrown.wikia.com/wiki/Sophie_Ne
veu
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Da_
Vinci_Code_characters
• http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0004647/
bio
• www.sparknotes.com
• www.wikipidia.com

75. http:/thebestnotes.com/booknotes/Da_Vinci_
Code/Da_Vinci_Code28
From this site we can see some important symbols of the
novel. Among those I got some major symbols of the novel
like Chalice, Blade, Langdon’s Mickey Mouse Watch and
Sauniere’s Knight.
http://www.biblebelievers.com/watkins_davinc
i/davinci.html
In this site we can get an information about pentagram as
symbol in the novel ‘The Da Vinci Code’.

76. http://www.chiff.com/a/da-vinci-code-
symbols.htm
From this site we get some information ‘Da Vinci Code: Clues,
Symbols & Meanings’. With the help of this site I choose Mona
Lisa’s painting as symbol and a symbol of Vitruvian man.
http://www.creatievepuzzels.com/spel/speel1/
speel3/davinci.htm
This site helps for to solve riddle of the novel. I get as symbol
to rose which a part of the riddle in this novel.
http://literarydevices.net/symbolism/
This site introduce symbolism. In which I put some
information of ‘Function of symbolism’.

77. http://jumanipooja07201112.blogspot.com.es/2013
/04/themes-of-da-vinci-code_6.html?m=1
http://msmurphynovelstudy11.blogspot.in/2012/06
/da-vinci-code-essay-recurring-themes.html?m=1
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Da_Vinci_Code
From these site we can get ideas about Themes and Motifs in broad
sense