The da vinci code

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Analysis of the Da Vinci code.

A: the setting.
Paris, London and Zurich and beyond.

The setting is actually rather important. Since the story is very complicated I think that one needs to really know where they are at the times.
For example when they are at the Louvre, they describe the setting very well but it wasn’t until I looked at the da Vinci code.com that I got the whole picture (I really recommend you to look at the location pictures there while reading the book). They describe the transparent pyramid much but you need to really see it before you can get the right picture.

B: the plot.
Robert Langdon is a famous expert in “symbology” and he is in Paris as a guest lecturer. Langdon planes to meet up with Jacques Saunière the next day to discuss Langdon’s latest writings about a secret society called “The priory of Sion” (At least that’s what he thinks that the meeting will be about). But Langdon is awakened in the middle of the night in his Paris hotel room by a phone call. There’s been a murder at the Louvre and there are baffling symbols on the body and the floor around it, the victim is Jacques Sauníere himself and for some reason Langdon becomes the head suspect in the chase for the murderer. Along with the gifted cryptologist Sophie Neveu, Langdon travels all over Europe for two reasons, to get away from the French police and prove his innocence, and as well to follow the clues that Sauníere left, the clues that hopefully will lead to the greatest secret in the whole world, the secret that Sauníer died to protect and the secret that many more before him new of and have died to protect.

The main plot is the search of this “secret” which I wont give away, I really recommend you (If you haven’t already read it) to read it. They find clues in the strangest places, word riddles and in the artwork of Leonardo Da Vinci himself. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory´s secret—and a stunning historical truth—will be lost forever.

But there are some other plots as well; we get to follow an albino man who works for an organisation called Opus Dei. The albino called Silas is also chasing after the secret and at the same time trying to kill Langdon and Neveu.
And there is a man who calls him self the “teacher” who seems to control the albino man and his “boss” a catholic priest.

The whole book is full of interesting turnings points and coincidences. I kept telling myself while reading it that “it’s only a novel, a work of fiction” but I couldn’t help thinking “my god is this really true”. I really understand why it has gotten so much attention and I can really understand why the church hates it so much. It really speaks against everything that the church believes in and tells people are true. And I must admit that after having reading it I really have started to doubt the liability of the church and the whole religion of Christianity.

Langdon’s and Neveu’s quest leads to clues, puzzles and riddles that link back to an ancient society tasked with protecting the truth about Jesus Christ and unlock the greatest secret in Western civilization




C: The characters.
Robert Langdon is the main character. When I read the book I knew that Tom Hanks would play the role as Langdon in the upcoming move about the book so when I read it I pictured Langdon as Tom Hanks, though maybe a bit larger around the waist.
But in the book he is described as a rather tired Harvard university professor, middle aged, very good at what he does. Good at getting the crowd interested in his lectures, even if they are students forced to listen to an “old man “talking. Langdon has written many books and it’s thanks to them that he is famous.

The other main character is Sophie Neveu. She is, according to the book and according to Langdon, a very beautiful woman with clear green eyes.
I can tell you this much, Sanuíere is Sophie’s grandfather and it’s because of something that she finds on the floor at Sanuíere’s body that makes her wanting to help Langdon. A decrypted message from her grandfather to her, or is it just meant for her? Langdon and Neveu find many hidden messages in the writings of Sanuíere.

Another character is Sir Leigh Teabing. At first he seems like a rather decent fellow, he is an old friend of Langdon and Teabing’s big quest in life is finding the Holy Grail. He has spent his whole life searching for the grail and he know everything about it.
Langdon and Neveu come to him in need for help and guidance.
But how well can they trust Teabing?

D: the themes
I don’t know what I would call the “leading theme” since there is always something happening in this book and there’s so much to tell. So many things that Dan Brown writes that is almost too unbelievable to be true. Can the church be keeping that big of a secret from their believers? And how has Dan Brown acquired this information, if it turned out to be true. I read in the beginning of the book that the Priory of Sion has existed and that it was founded in Europe in 1099, it’s actually a real secret society. It has had members like Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo and Leonardo Da Vinci.

I would call it is a mixture of drama, mystery and thriller. Everything that happens has a connection to the real world, and Brown speaks a lot about the Egyptian mythology and the roman mythology.
I would say that the whole book is a philosophical message.

E: The form
The book is written in “God’s view”, third person. I prefer like books that are written in just third person. I think that it’s easier for the reader to understand all, and follow the persons around, all of their feelings and the surroundings that they encounter.
And I really like that Brown writes all of the codes that Langdon and Neveu encounter, in that way you (the reader) can try to solve the riddles your self, It also gives you a better look at what the characters struggle with in almost every page of the book.
The one thing that I didn’t like about the book was the ending. Sure I would not be able to come up with a better ending, and this is probably the only ending that would have worked, since the secret never got out in the real world (Langdon and Neveu found out the secret, but when they had the choice to either tell the world or k...