SYMBOLS OF THE SACRED FEMININE ROBERT LANGDON CODE
Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code (DVC) is a highly controversial novel that has been largely debated and discussed because of its content and intended message. These works are supposed to entertain and teach and, accordingly, they are labeled as didactic literature. Many works of literature are devoted to giving readers explicit or implicit instructions or teachings about a philosophy, an ideology, a craft, a lifestyle, or other ends. Postmodernism symbolism postmodern structure semiotics Alternative history in the novel is analysed as the basics of the semiotic-symbolic model in the article. Though symbolic-semiotic structure decreases the literary and aesthetic value of the novel, its concept is obvious. The alternative history that the author created is an attempt of historical realities to approach the truth. The messages the author tries to deliver via the language of symbols can be the realities of today and the future. Important symbols such as Saint Graal, the image Jesus, Sacred Feminine define the structure and idea of the novel. The novel is symbolic as much as it is postmodern. Choosing science or religion as a means for this is not essential for him. The main purpose of Dan Brown is to protect the reader from “icons”. The occurrences that are in the novel, the postmodern attitude towards history, and the codes that are expressed with symbolism are analyzed here.
The article studies the symbolic-semiotic model of alternative history based on this novel. Building the future based on the remnants of the past is considered a new approach towards art. It is obviously seen in the novel “The Da Vinci Code”. As we are living in a postmodern era it is understandable that modern novels tend to classic columns.
This method that we call alternative history is one of the key features of modern novels. The author creates a bridge between present and past, studying existing world history and demonstrating counter attitude to the so-called history. In the novels of Dan Brown alternative history dominates. The novel “Da Vinci code” as a symbolic-semiotic model of alternatıve history
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