Communicative levels of a narrative ( ).ġ.1. Since author and reader do not communicate in the literary text itself, their level of communication is an “extratextual” one.įigure 1. Each level of communication comes with its own set of addressers and addressees (senders and receivers). By comparing and contrasting, the author concludes that The Da Vinci Code is a pseudo-feminist text written by a male author under the disguise of the quest of identity and the promotion of self-consciousness of women.Īs is shown in Figure 1, literary narrative communication involves the interplay of at least three communicative levels. To erase the ambiguity concerning the story that purports to do justice to women, the thesis focuses on feminist literary criticism of the novel and presents the counterpoints on the interpretation of the main issues in the novel: on one hand, the author analyzes from feminist perspective the causes to some readers’ misreading, who assert The Da Vinci Code is a feminist text which endeavors to revive the worship of sacred feminine and to promote the self-consciousness of woman on the other hand, the author resorts to feminist literary theory to scrutinize the patriarchal traces and hidden sexual discrimination in the phallogocentric text of Dan Brown. On account of the acclaimed theme of the story, some critics take it for granted that the novel is a feminist text that strives to rediscover the identity of the female. Three major premises serve as the foundation for the construction of the novel:ġ) The worship of sacred feminine precedes the monotheism of early Christianity.Ģ) The Vatican has conspired to conceal the marriage between Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene.ģ) The Holy Grail symbolizes the seeded womb of Mary Magdalene, who carries the divine ancestral bloodline of Jesus Christ. The novel purports to expose an ancient conspiracy of the Vatican and the Priory of Sion, which according to Dan Brown conceals the marriage and offspring of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene. Dan Brown’s multi-layered fiction starts from deconstructing the traditional interpretation of Leonardo’s artistic works, develops by self-reconstructing the symbolic system of the artistic and religious world, and terminates with an indefinite, thought-provoking ending. The novel has become a global phenomenon having an impact not only in the literary domain and related fields of arts, but also in the political, social and religious spheres. The Da Vinci Code (2003), a story of the Holy Grail quest, has struck a huge avalanche of sales and been translated into 44 languages worldwide. Not to reduce its literary value to political value but to be of great help to The feminist interpretation of the novel is The distortion of female images in the phallogocentric text, the authorĬoncludes that The Da Vinci Code is a pseudo-feminist text, which embodies repression and manipulation of By inferring the allegory of the Holy Grail indicated in the novel,Īpproaching the discourse inscribed with sexual discrimination, and revealing Traces and hidden sexual discrimination in the phallogocentric text of Danīrown. The thesis relies on feminist literary theory to scrutinize the patriarchal Contrary to the dominating criticism of the novel, Based on these descriptions of the novel, some scholarsĪssert The Da Vinci Code is a feminist novel, which opens everyone’s eyes to a startling ly different view of the powerful role of wom e n in Greatest hour of need, author of her own Gospel, his romantic partner, and the In the novel’s estimation, Mary Magdalene was a strong, independentįigure, patron of Jesus, cofounder of his movement, his only believer in his Women are a largeĬonstituency of The Da Vinci Code, and the book responds in many ways to new thinking about women in westernĬulture. One twenty-four-hour period like James Joyce’s Ulysses. Into quickly accessible sound bites, and his story takes place essentially in
As a result, the Gnostic Gospels, in striking contrast to their New Testament counterparts, place almost no value on the death and resurrection of Jesus.Dan Brown is able to compress extensive intellectual and religious arguments The key tenet of Gnosticism is that salvation comes through secret knowledge. What do we know about the contents of these books? It is generally agreed that the Nag Hammadi texts are Gnostic documents. Introduction to The Da Vinci Codeĭan Brown’s novel, The Da Vinci Code, This article is also available in Spanish.
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