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The Interpretation Of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code

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The Interpretation of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code

The Da Vinci Code is a thriller mystery novel and was first published in April 2003 in the U.S. and was an instant success topped only by J.K. Rowling’s The Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix .The Da Vinci Code was welcomed with mixed reviews surrounding positive and negative criticism due to Brown’s negative portrayal of Church’s history and of Jesus’ humanisation. Also, Dan Brown claimed to put across facts with researched evidences like ‘Les Dossiers Secret’, the ‘Priory of Sion’ or pagan worshiping and even attempted to change the entire concept of the ‘Holy Grail’. Even though Brown has painted a colourful picture, the facts that he has confidently put across in his novel seem …show more content…

That this person and Christ had a baby together and that this sacrilegious bloodline still breathes today in the country of France. Too implausible a tale it seems, but he said that this person was none other than Mary Magdalene. To prove his point, he took another painting of Da Vinci and using ancient symbolism proved that she was in fact present in “The Last Supper”, Da Vinci’s portrayal of Jesus’ aver to know of the traitor among the twelve disciples. To help understand the symbolism better, a painting of ‘The Last Supper’ has been attached …show more content…

“-the feminine chalice and guiding star that led to the truth” (Brown, 272)
To create an aura of suspense and of imagery, Brown used one of his characters to form an actual-sized re-creation of ‘The Vitruvian Man’, by Leonardo Da Vinci. This was well thought-out to be one of the most anatomically correct sketches of a human body and also it brought together the harmony of the male and the female. Something which Da Vinci was very adamant in: the balance between the two sexes or so Dan Brown has very ‘rightfully’ claimed. Fig 2: Da Vinci, Leonard. ‘The Vitruvian Man’ Dan Brown touched a very, very sensitive topic of ‘sex’ which even in this modern day and age, people are too shy and too reserved to even think about. He daringly named this union as a spiritual act and made it believable that God can be found not in the dim walls of Churches but in this divine amalgamation of the male and the female; the union of black with white. He boldly stated that ancient heritage held the thought that sex was highly spiritual and physiologically natural. A line from the book

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