Lets Break : The Da Vinci Code

Heard a lot about Da Vinci Code, seen lot of documentories on Dicovery. Its been talk of the town (or the world) for a while. Thought of writing a brief on what its all about.

Well, The Da Vinci Code, really is a novel writtn by Dan Brown. The reson this topic is got so hot these days is because of the upcoming movie starring Tom Hanks.

So what actaully is The Da Vinci Code, that makes it the most talked about topic today. Like some scholar in British University said, "We're in the middle of a war, to protect a secret so powerful, that if revealed, it would devastate the foundations of mankind... witness the biggest coverup in human history."

To summarize, the view of the book is that Christianity is a built on one giant lie, and the Church is trying to cover up this truth and its a big conspiracy to keep them in power.

The book concerns the attempts of Robert Langdon, Professor of Religious Symbology at Harvard University, to solve the murder of renowned curator Jacques Saunière (see Bérenger Saunière) of the Louvre Museum in Paris. The title of the novel refers, among other things, to the fact that Saunière's body is found in the Denon Wing of the Louvre naked and posed like Leonardo da Vinci's famous drawing, the Vitruvian Man, with a cryptic message written beside his body and a Pentagram drawn on his stomach in his own blood. The interpretation of hidden messages inside Leonardo's famous works, including the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, figure prominently in the solution to the mystery.

Vitruvian Man, by Leonardo da Vinci.The main conflict in the novel revolves around the solution to two mysteries:

What secret was Saunière protecting that led to his murder?

Who is the mastermind behind his murder?

The unraveling of the mystery requires the solution to a series of brain-teasers, including anagrams and number puzzles. The solution itself is found to be intimately connected with the possible location of the Holy Grail and to a mysterious society called the Priory of Sion, as well as to the Knights Templar. The Catholic organization "Opus Dei" (a caricature of the real Opus Dei) also figures prominently in the plot.

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