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Point of View in The Da Vinci Code A Stylistic Analysis of The Da Vinci Code part 17
Chapter 12 again is narrated in Category B Reflector mode with negative shading. Langdon is as confused in chapter 12 as he was in chapter 9. Neveu is the certain and knowledgeable character, as she was in chapter 9. This is demonstrated by the fact that Langdon is “filled with uncertainty” and that he also has decided “to do exactly as Sophie advised” (Brown, 2003: 98). Nevertheless, he feels “his apprehension rising,” and he feels lost (Brown, 2003: 98; 100). The reader knows just as much as Robert Langdon, because there is no access to Neveu’s mind. As Langdon follows Neveu’s advice, his initial scepticism is expressed in sentences like “what the devil did you expect?” and “he began wondering if Sophie might just be insane after all” (Brown, 2003: 99). This initial scepticism disappears when his fingers brush “something unexpected”, which is the tracking dot, at which he “stares
in astonishment” (Brown, 2003: 99). Langdon is “surprised” to see that Neveu not only is a
strong, hard woman, but that her “strong air actually radiated from unexpectedly soft
features”, and that just her gaze was sharp (Brown 2003: 98). This is relevant because it
demonstrates how the reader comes to know Sophie Neveu through the eyes of Robert
Langdon, since Langdon is the reflector of the fiction. The reader might therefore get the idea
that Sophie Neveu is also a very knowledgeable character, who is sure of herself and hence
can be trusted.
In the middle of the novel an important change occurs: Sophie Neveu is no longer much more knowledgeable than Robert Langdon. In Chapter 55, 56, 57, 58, 60, 61 and 62 a shift can be noticed with regard to which characters are more knowledgeable. In these chapters Neveu and Langdon meet Sir Leigh Teabing, a former British Royal Historian. Teabing also is an expert on the Holy Grail. Langdon and Teabing explain to Neveu everything there is to know about the Holy Grail (Brown, 2003: 310). They explain that the Holy Grail is not an object but a specific woman, namely Mary Magdalene, and that it also is a metaphor for the embodiment of the sacred female. Teabing furthermore explains that Mary Magdalene had children with Jesus Christ and that the Merovingian dynasty, a royal family in France, are descendants from the Bloodline of Mary Magdalene and Jesus Christ. From the beginning of chapter 55 and throughout the following chapters Neveu is ‘used’ to explain the theory of the Holy Grail. Because Neveu (like the reader) is the ignorant character who does not know much about the Grail, she needs an explanation. The explanation that Langdon and Teabing provide for Neveu functions as an explanation for the reader as well.
Analysis of The Da Vinci Code to be continued… (part 18).
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