APPENDICES
1. Dan Brown's Biography
mostly Christian. Brown sang in the church choir, attended Sunday school, and spent summers at church camp. His own schooling was at public schools in Exeter until the 9th grade, at which time he enrolled in Phillips Exeter, as did his younger siblings Valerie and Gregory when it became their turn.
After graduating from Phillips Exeter in 1982, Brown attended Amherst College, where he was a member of Psi Upsilon Fraternity. During his Junior year at Amherst, Brown went to Europe to study art history at the University of Seville in Spain, which is where he first began seriously studying the works of Leonardo Da Vinci. Brown graduated from Amherst in 1986, and then played around with music for awhile, creating effects with synthesizer music, and self-producing a cassette entitled SynthAnimals which included a collection of tracks such as "Happy Frogs"and "Suzuki Elephants." He formed his own (vanity) record company called Dalliance, and in 1990 self-published a CD entitled Perspective, targeted to the adult market, which sold a few hundred copies.
Brown also developed a personal relationship, though this was not known to all of their associates until 1993, when Brown moved back to New Hampshire, and it was learned that Blythe would be accompanying him. They later married, at a location near North Conway, New Hampshire. Along with helping his singing career, Blythe has also been a major influence on Brown's career as an author, as she assists with much of the promotion involved with his books. She co-wrote both of his early "humor" books, which were written under pseudonyms, and there is speculation that she may have helped with other books as well. In the Acknowledgement for Deception Point, Brown thanked "Blythe Brown for her tireless research and creative input." In interviews, Brown says that his wife is an "art historian" and "painter", though there is no record of her having worked professionally in this capacity, aside from her assistance with the book research.
avoiding men." The copyright, however, is listed as "Dan Brown". It sold a few thousand copies before going out of print. Digital Fortess was published in 1998. Blythe did much of the book's promotion, writing press releases, booking Brown on talk shows, and setting up press interviews. A few months later, Brown and his wife released The Bald Book, another humor book. It was officially credited to his wife, though a representative of the publisher said that it was primarily written by Brown.
In 1996, Brown quit teaching to become a full-time writer. His first three novels had mediocre success, but the fourth novel,The Da Vinci Code became a runaway bestseller, going to the top of the New York Times Best Seller list during its first week of release in 2003. It is now credited with being one of the most popular books of all time, and as of 2005, has sold more than 25 million copies (mostly in hardcover) around the world. Its success has helped push sales of Brown's earlier books. In 2004, all four of his novels were on the New York Times list in the same week, and in 2005, he made Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people of the year. Forbes magazine placed Brown at #12 on their 2005 "Celebrity 100" list, and estimated his annual income at $76.5 million USD. Brown is interested in cryptography, keys, and codes, which are a recurring theme in his stories. He is currently the most famous celebrity in New Hampshire, and his novels have been translated into more than 40 languages.
which involves a famous composer's "all factual" associations with a secret society. Speculation is that this may mean Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who was also a Freemason.
2. Summary of the Novel
Symbologist Robert Langdon is thrown into a mysterious and bizarre murder. Alongside Langdon is the victims granddaughter and cryptologist Sophie Neveu, who with Robert discovers clues within Da Vinci's paintings. To further find the truth, Robert and Sophie travel from Paris to London, whilst crossing paths with allies and villains such as Sir Leigh Teabing and Silas. Wherever their path takes them, there discovery which is about to be revealed could shake the foundations of mankind.
Mary Magdalene were, in fact, a couple who produced a daughter named Sara. A millenarian sect called The Priory of Sion has kept for centuries the secret of that matter. A masochist and kind of psychopath albino monk, Sibilas, an Opus Dei member, will chase Langdon and Sophie as well, in order to impede that they solve the mystery of Christ and Mary Magdalene, and also the real meaning and location of the Holy Grail. A passionate British researcher, will help Langdon in his quest, revealing to them several symbolisms in Da Vinci's master work The Last Supper, traveling to mythical places in the UK, such as The Church Temple, where it is believed that a group of Templars Knights are buried, and Sir Isaac Newton's tomb at Westminster Abbey, where are located some of the main keys to solve the Holy Grail's mystery.
While in Paris on business, Harvard symbol gist Robert Langdon is informed that the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. Solving the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci - clues visible for all to see, and yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, and learns the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion - an actual secret society. In a breathless race through Paris, London and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless power broker who appears to work for Opus Dei - a clandestine, Vatican-sanctioned Catholic organization believed to have long plotted to seize the Priory's secret. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory's secret - and a stunning historical truth - will be lost forever.
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3. DESCRIPTION OF THE CONTROVERSIAL
3.1 The Marriage of Jesus in The Da Vinci Code
If Jesus marries with Magdalene, is that wedding has a specific purpose? In other words, is it a kind of conventional wedding? Is it a kind of the alliance of the dynasty? Is it having a political purpose?
Does Jesus come from Nazareth? There is still no indication that he is ones from a poor carpenter family? None of the Bible describes Jesus like that. He looks like as an educating, a training person for being a Rabbi. He also interacts with the rich and influential people, even with poor people like Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus.
That marriage is not a simple wedding party that held by the common people. On the contrary, there are much visible signs of the luxury of high society that attended by a hundred guests. There are many waiters who rush working to comply Jesus and Marry order. There is also a leader of the wedding party who served as a chief waiter or maybe a nobleman.
Clearly, that wedding party provides much wine. When Jesus change the water into wine, according to the Good News Bible, He produces less than eight hundred bottles of wine and it is just another addition.
castle’s residents, because it is impossible if the waiters comply all their orders. If Jesus is a nobleman and marries with Magdalene, it is means that Magdalene will have the same status with Him.
According to all annotation of the New Testament in the Bible, Jesus is the David’s generation. According to the views of the Benjamin’s tribe, it makes Jesus becomes a usurper power man. The dislike sense of Jesus becomes more pile up, moreover if He marries with a woman who comes from Benjamin’s tribe. This kind of marriage is the alliance of the two significant dynasties. It does not only give the Israel people an extraordinary king or pastor, but also it can show the symbolic function of the return of Jerusalem to the owner. So, it means that it can be increase the popular alliance and support of Jesus.
Jesus may be a King-priest of the line generation of David that has the right to claim His throne. He probably combines His position by doing a marriage between two significant dynasties symbolically. He may act to ally His country by actuating His proponent behind Him, driving out the tyrant, expelling their dolls and improving the grandeur of their empire as like as Salomon’s government.
The rules that govern the wedding in the dynasty, as like Jesus wedding is certainly contrast to the rules of Jewish people. The only reason that allows the sex to happen is being a father.
There is one time engaged for three months and the first day of the wedding ceremony with the oil occurs in September. It marks the beginning of a period of relationship. However, recent sexual intercourse may occur after the first half of the month of December that year. The delay is meant to ensure that the baby will be born in September; this is the month of peace (Atonement). If the relationship produces a pregnancy, sexual intercourse can only be continued in December. Until the day of his second marriage, the woman is considered to be young woman.
At the second marriage, in March, the bride has already been in three months of pregnant. The reason of three months delay is to see the possibility of miscarriage in pregnancy. It also means that the husband can resign from the marriage if his wife is proved to be infertile. Besides December, when the couple does the sexual intercourse, the couple must live separate each other.
When they live apart, the wife is considered as a widow. It means that she is on the one level lower that “Alamah”. The woman is asked to be sorrowful for her husband. It is as explained in the Luke 7:38 “As she stood behind him at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears.”
John does not mention about the existence of the real marriage in Cana, he just say that is no wedding party there. Among all the guests in there, there are the disciples and gentiles adherent that does not clean. Jesus is the groom in that party. When the commotion happens because of the wine communion, the Jesus mother tells all the waiters to do what Jesus commanded.
Actually, the guests should not make a commotion. The real ceremony will be held in the next September. Marry Magdalene anoints Jesus feet again in March 33 AD and wipes it dry with her hair. The only people who allowed anointing with Spikenard is the Messiah’s wife. The only time that allowed is in the first and second wedding ceremony.
The King of Egypt is allowed to marry their sisters. The King of Judah does not follow those procedures but they consider that the successor to the throne will fall on the line of woman. John the Baptist is Zadok of men lineage. The wife who comes from the men lineage always gets Elisheba as their designation. The wife who comes from the Davidic dynasty always gets marry as their designation. It is the reason why Jesus mother and His wife are called as Marry.
Dan Brown tells it for us in The Da Vinci Code, “And the couple of the Savior is Marry Magdalene. Christ loves her more than other disciples, and he often kisses her mouth.”
her?” The mystery of that marriage is very excitement because it seems like that the world will never know about that marriage.
Kissing on the mouth is an action which can only be done for a married couple. Dan Brown in The Da Vinci Code does not mention a quotation from Thomas Gospel, when Peter said, “Let Mary leave us, for women are not worthy of life.’ Jesus said, ‘I myself shall lead her in order to make her male, so that she too may become a
living spirit resembling you males. For every woman who will make herself male will
enter the kingdom of heaven.’”
3.2 The Responses of Christian Figures A. Darrel L. Bock
Darrel L. Bock is a bachelor from the Gospel study of the New Testament. He is also a professor for a research who comes from Theological University of Dallas in US. Bock got his PhD from The University of Aberdeen in Scotland.
His works about the essay of the blasphemy act and God’s glorification is his collection. That is Judaism and the Final Examination of Jesus.
Bock is a former chairman of the Evangelical Theological Society. Now, he is an editor of Christianity Today magazine and he often publishes article in the Los Angeles Time and Dallas Morning News.
relates to the Gospels with some views found in The Da Vinci Code. Particularly, it is about the Jesus marriage with Magdalene.
Bock also writes articles on beliefnet.com and christianitytoday.com. The latest book of Bock is The Missing Gospel that denies the existence and legitimacy of Christian Orthodoxy who is not legitimates the Church Law and its study.
Darrel L. Bock argues that the conclusion about Jesus marriage with a woman named Mary Magdalene is created frivolously. How can we conclude about a phenomenon in a history text only based on the narrative of its text? Moreover, the Gospel is about from thousand years ago. Logically, it will able to get some diversion of language. It is because the Bible is translated from Hebrew to the Latin. Then, it is also translated to the English/French that used by Dan Brown.
Dan Brown also makes another controversial conclusion. He says that the Merovingian dynasty is a dynasty that comes from Jesus and Marry Magdalene’s generation. After Jesus is crucified, some loyal disciples of Jesus run off Mary Magdalene and her children from Jesus to out from Jerusalem. After a stop in some places, Marry Magdalene settles in the region of Languedoc, south of France. She stays in the Rennes le Chateau village that becomes the first research place of Dan Brown.
the reason why the Kings of Merovingian dynasty is treated as a king-priest, a pure king who does not only acts as a symbol of the country but also act as the spiritual leader for their society.
Regardless from Dan Brown’s controversy about the marriage of Jesus, Darrel L. Bock takes his attitudes against the personal of Jesus:
1) Jesus/Isa is someone who brings the Holy messages from the Almighty God and it makes him being sacred regardless from the fact of His marriage.
2) The holiness of Jesus/Isa should be become the orientation of Christians who believe in the existence of Jesus/Isa. The Christians should not use the Holiness of Jesus to sharpen who believe in His presence.
B. Erwin Lutzer
Erwin Lutzer was born on October 3, 1941 in Saskatchewan, Canada. He was the fifth son of Gustav and Wanda Lutzer. He graduated from the University of Winnipeg Bible and the Dallas University, Texas. He graduated in 1967. Now, Erwin Lutzer is a senior pastor in the Moody Church in Chicago, US.
Erwin Lutzer argues that one of the sources that use by Dan Brown in writing The Da Vinci Code book is the Lincoln’s book Holy Blood Grail-Holy Grail.
Such a question like: Does Jesus marry? The early assumption that used by Dan Brown is about Jesus is a Jew, it is a prophet and a Rabbi. While both written and unwritten Jewish Law, it is a must for a young Jew to get marriage if they have been in the puberty age. There is also the written Jewish Law says that a man can be a Rabbi, if he has already married. From this perspective, it means that Jesus must marry.
On the other hand, the Bible and other sources which do not explicitly state that Jesus gets marriage. Another source from the Apocrypha book also implicitly states that Jesus gets marriage. Then, it is said also that the Jesus wife is Mary Magdalene. Magdalene is described in the Bible as the woman who anoints the Jesus feet and watches the Jesus death on cross. She is also the first woman who comes to the Jesus tomb. The church makes mistakes for thousand years in describing Mary Magdalene as a prostitute.
Magdalene marries with Jesus and they have children. After the death of Jesus, Magdalene with the Jesus disciples run off to the Southern of French (Gaul) that in habited by Jewish settles for many years. In there, the Jesus generations spread up and they have link to the Merovingian dynasty. It is lead by Frank as the King in the 6-7th century. Holy Grail is the symbol of Jesus generation. It is no a Banquet if it interprets literally.
perpetrators that can be trusted. The biggest weakness in the one of Dan Brown’s statement: “the Bible (New Testament) is the book that has altered, changed, republished and edited in accordance with the needs of the Church at that time. So, the Bible does not be a source that is trusted in revealing the story of Jesus life.
The strength of Dan Brown’s book, The Da Vinci Code is he does not take the conclusions but says that there is a kind of hypothesis. The hypothesis has not proven right and still related to a relationship that has not been strong.
Does the hypothesis in The Da Vinci Code affect the people’s faith (Christians)? According to Erwin Lutzer, it is not a problem, if the proof of a history is in the opposite of the faith. The proof of Jesus marriage and have a child can not destroy the faith of Christians. Of course, there are something dreaded in the book that makes a too much reactions from the Church and religious. Too much reaction make the facts are distorted.
C. Martin Lunn
Martin Lunn argues that the Roman Catholic Church feels highlighted and looks not happy with that critical highlight because of The Da Vinci Code book. The Church defends their followers over the 2000 years and feels happy to know that their faith runs without any evidence.
The Da Vinci Code is a successful novel not only because its honesty, but
because the murderer story in that book. It is also because Dan Brown evokes the readers to see “the truth”. He stimulates the readers to increase the knowledge about it and also makes dissatisfaction to always find out what happen in the end of the novel.
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown was published in 2003. The book is
followed by the film that adapts from the novel and has the same title with the novel. The Da Vinci Code film plays simultaneously around the world. For some Christians,
particularly Catholics, this novel and this film are the fiction that can rock the faith. The fuss of The Da Vinci Code relates some description about the fundamental aspects of Christian’s belief. The novel and the film contain many ideas which not embrace the main of theology. For example, the book tells that Jesus/Isa is not God, but only a human. Before the fourth century, Jesus is considered only as human, but the Empire of Roman Emperor at that time, Constantine, defies Jesus according to his old paganism.
4. CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
4.1 Conclusions
According to the problem of this paper, the writer took the conclusions, as follows:
1) State of The Da Vinci Code about the marriage of Jesus
In the book of The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown concludes that the wedding’s phenomenon in Cana is the place where the miracle of Jesus is happened. Jesus changes the water into wine. In this book, it is the marriage of Jesus.
The early assumption that used by Dan Brown is about Jesus is a Jew. He is also a prophet and a Rabbi. While both written and unwritten Jewish Law, it is a must for a young Jew to get marriage if they have been in the puberty age. There is also the written Jewish Law says that a man can be a Rabbi, if he has already married. From this perspective, it means that Jesus must marry.
2) The response of Christian figures about the marriage of Jesus in The Da Vinci Code
A. Darrel L. Bock
of language. It is because the Bible is translated from Hebrew to the Latin. Then, it is also translated to the English/French that used by Dan Brown.
B. Erwin Lutzer
Erwin Lutzer argues that one of the sources that use by Dan Brown in writing The Da Vinci Code book is the Lincoln’s book Holy Blood Grail-Holy Grail. Dan
Brown uses the disclosure of facts that are strong enough. He uses a wide several evidences and facts from the writings and documents in the medieval century. He also hunts information to the historians and the even perpetrators that can be trusted. The biggest weakness in the one of Dan Brown’s statement: “the Bible (New Testament) is the book that has altered, changed, republished and edited in accordance with the needs of the Church at that time. So, the Bible does not be a source that is trusted in revealing the story of Jesus life.
C. Martin Lunn
Martin Lunn argues The Da Vinci Code is just a novel, a fictional story, but it is faced as the serious phenomenon for the Christian figures. He also argues The Da Vinci Code is a successful novel not only because its honesty, but because the
4.2 Suggestions
The writer did not want to join the fuss about the pros and cons of Jesus marriage in The Da Vinci Code. Maybe it is just a business strategy to make the novel and the film more popular. But we must make it as our object of contemplation without murmuring and pointing someone as an infidel. We can make it as our reference to broad and sharp our faith.
2. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
2.1 Novel
A novel is a long narrative, normally in prose, which describes fictional characters and events, usually in the form of a sequential story.
While into being in the early 18th century, the continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with historical roots in of the present generic English term in the 18th century.
While a more precise definition of the genre is difficult, the main elements that critics discuss are: how the narrative, and especially the plot, is constructed; the themes, settings, and character, and setting relate to
happy endings. They can be read as escapist dreams of how to change social status by marriage; they are at the same time constant indicators of existing or imaginary social barriers. All major political confrontations of the past one hundred years have become the scenery of popular exploits, whether they focused on soldiers, spies, or on civilians fighting between the lines.
The authors of popular fiction–and that is the essential difference between them and their counterparts in the sphere of so-called elitist literature–tend to proclaim that they have simply exploited the controversial topics. Dan Brown does this on his website answering the question whether his Da Vinci Code could be called an "anti-Christian" novel:
“No. This book is not anti-anything. It's a novel. I wrote this story in an effort to explore certain aspects of Christian history that interest me. The vast of majority devout Christians understand this fact and consider The Da Vinci Code an entertaining story that promotes spiritual discussion and debate. Even so, a small but vocal group of individuals has proclaimed the story dangerous, heretical, and anti-Christian. While I regret having offended those individuals, I should mention that priests, nuns, and clergy contact me all the time to thank me for writing the novel. Many church officials are celebrating The Da Vinci Code because it has sparked renewed interest in important topics of faith and Christian history. It is important to remember that a reader does not have to agree with every word in the novel to use the book as a positive catalyst for introspection and exploration of our faith.”
to be compelled to write. They follow (says the popular mythology) their inner voices, a feeling for injustice, an urge to face a personal trauma, an artistic vision. The authors of popular fiction have their own calling: they must not fail the expectations of their audiences. A covenant of loyalty and mutual respect is the basis on which the author of popular fiction continues his or her work. The typical branches of the production have no contact to mythologies of authorship.
2.2 Jesus in the Bible as Literature
Jesus, the proper, as Christ is the official, name of our Lord. To distinguish him from others so called, he is spoken of as "Jesus of Nazareth" ( "Jesus the son of Joseph"
This is the Greek form of the Hebrew name Joshua, which was originally Hoshe Jeshua, whence the Greek form Jesus. It was given to our Lord to denote the object of his mission, to save (Matthew 1:21).
The life of Jesus on earth may be divided into two great periods, that of his private life, till he was about thirty years of age, that of his public life, which lasted about three years.
Wise men from the east came to Bethlehem to see him who was born "King of the Jews," bringing gifts with them Joseph's flight into Egypt with Mary and the infant Jesus, where they tarried till the death of this ki Lower Galil years he went up to Jerusalem to the Passover with his parents. There, in the temple, "in the midst of the doctors," all that heard him were "astonished at his understanding and answers" (
Eighteen years pass, of which we have no record beyond this, that he returned to Nazareth and "increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man" (
He entered on his public ministry when he was about thirty years of age. It is generally reckoned to have extended to about three years. “Each of these years had peculiar features of its own.
1) The first year may be called the year of obscurity, both because the records of it which we possess are very scanty, and because he seems during it to have been only slowly emerging into public notice. It was spent for the most part in Judea. 2) The second year was the year of public favor, during which the country had
become thoroughly aware of him; his activity was incessant, and his frame rang through the length and breadth of the land. It was almost wholly passed in Galilee. 3) The third was the year of opposition, when the public favor ebbed away. His
felt a victim to their hatred. The first six months of this final year were passed in Galilee, and the last six in other parts of the land." (Stalker's Life of Jesus Christ, p. 45.).
2.3 Marriage in the Bible as Literature
Marriage is an intimate and complementing union between a man and a woman in which the two become one physically, in the whole of life. The purpose of marriage is to reflect the relationship of the Godhead and to serve him. Although the fall has marred the divine purpose and function of marriage, this definition reflects the God-ordained ideal for marriage from the beginning.
Genesis 1:26-27 declares that mankind was created in God's image with a plural composition of male and female, each separately in God's image (cf. defined in Scripture, contexts in which God's image are discussed must define the concept (cf. creativity (procreation), reasoning power, decision-making, and relationship.
However, all three are fully and equally deity. Likewise, male and female in the marriage relationship are of the same nature and essence, equal as persons (cf. different roles: the husband leads and the wife submits to his leadership (cf. the Godhead. Marriage, the most intimate human relationship, was appropriately chosen to reflect this relational aspect of the divine image. Each sex alone incompletely exhibits this part of the divine image. This open intimate relational aspect of God's image, reflected in marriage, was marred by the fall (cf. from God.
Marriage is the most basic and significant social relationship to humankind. This relationship must be nurtured and maintained for the welfare of all. Without marriage, society will fail.
which she was punished by captivity. Yahweh "divorced" his "unfaithful wife" restore her to faithfulness and holine
New Testament marriage imagery describes the relationship between Christ and his church (cf. is sacrificially loved by Christ, just as a husband should love his wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his b submissively to her husband's sacrificial love like the church submits to Christ's becoming holy and blameless before God, even as Christ presents the church without blemish to the Fathe the functional model for a marriage relationship.
God commanded the male and female to perform two specific functions: procreation ("fruitful and multiply") and ruling over the earth ("subdue" and "rule") female) receive God-ordained authority to rule over the rest of creation, but not over each other.
unable to have children for various physical reasons. This does not make their marriage second-rate or inferior. However, a married couple should desire to obey the divine injunction of procreation if possible. Children are one manifestation of the "one flesh" of marriage.
2.4 Christian in the Bible as Literature
A dictionary definition of a Christian would be something similar to “a person professing belief in Jesus as the Christ or in the religion based on the teachings of Jesus.” While this is a good starting point, like many dictionary definitions, it falls somewhat short of really communicating the biblical truth of what it means to be a Christian. The word “Christian” is used three times in the New Testam Antioc The word “Christian” literally means, “Belonging to the party of Christ” or a “follower of Christ.”
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of Study
History, mystery, and fact of the life are always interested to be discussed. This is not only because everyone has his or her own life in various ways, but also because life has its answer for each individual question. Therefore, life and literature have a close connection.
Literature can be defined as the attempt to describe human experience by means of written language. The authors can convey their expression of ideas or mind and their imagination of life to the readers through literary works. Taylor (1981: 1) says, “Literature like other arts is essentially an imagination act of the writer’s imagination in selecting, ordering, and interpreting life experience.”
Thus , literary work is able to enlarge human knowledge about life, social problems, and philosophy because there are some literary works describe certain situation and illustrate something important for us, as Rene Wellek and Austen (1956:111) states that,
“To be sure, literature can be treated as a document in the history of ideas and philosophy, for literature parallels and intellectual history. Frequently either explicit statements of allusion show the allegiance of a poet to a specific philosophy once well known or at least that he is aware of their general assumption.”
expression of actions, characters, setting, point of view, and style. These elements arranged in such a way in order to make sense and have a direct relation to actual life.
Taylor (1981:2) says, “More than, any other arts, literature reflects or comments on actual experience, social, philosophical, psychological, and more concern”. By analyzing a literary work, we also learn about moral lesson. It describes about human attitude more than psychologist can do as what is written in Theory of Literature by Rene Wellek: The novelist can teach you more about human nature.
Literature is mainly divided into three genres classified in accordance with certain characters and features. The common genetic divisions are prose, poetry, and drama. And in Richard Taylor’s opinion, that narrative fiction including novel is the only genre that is meant to be written down for private reading.
Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code is a famous and controversial masterpiece. The Da Vinci Code gets much attention around the world because of the intriguing
ritual that is believed by many people as a real ritual of Pagan religion in which the followers of this ritual have a sex ritual to get closer to their God (Stewart). Brown’s amazing skill in telling the story makes the novel very interesting and the readers‟ brain work when they read this novel.
One point that Brown tries to figure out in The Da Vinci Code novel is the history of the biggest religion in the world, Christian. Christian is a big religion, which has an old and long history, the history of Mary Magdalene. In The Da Vinci Code, Brown says that Magdalene is a famous woman in Christian history, especially
when she is related to Jesus. Jesus and Magdalene had a close relationship. Besides, Magdalene was one of Jesus twelve apostles (disciples). In addition, some stories stated that Magdalene was Jesus wife. Some stories also tell that Magdalene was Jesus favorite disciple more than Saint Peter. Moreover, Peter felt jealous of Magdalene because Jesus preferred Magdalene. Bible in The Gospel of Philip states that,
“And the companion of the Savior is Mary Magdalene. Christ loved her more than all the disciples and used to kiss her often on her mouth. The rest of the disciples were offended by it and expressed disapproval. They said to him, “Why do you love her more than all of us?”” (Bible: The Gospel of Philip)
On this occasion, the writer is going to analyze Dan Brown’s novel, The Da Vinci Code, but the analyzing about the controversy within. It is a very interesting
novel to read, it tells about the secret history is opened in this era and that make many controversial, especially for Christian. Because that is too connected with religion.
1.2 Problem of Study
In order for the discussion of writing this paper is not very width, the writer focuses on writing into to main questions:
1) How does The Da Vinci Code state about the marriage of Jesus?
2) How do the response of Christian figures about the marriage of Jesus in The Da Vinci Code?
1.3 Purpose of Study
The purpose of the study in this paper, as follows:
1) Through this paper, the writer wants to increase the objective understanding of the controversy and the response of Christian figures about the marriage of Jesus in The Da Vinci Code.
2) Then, the writer has to fulfill the requirement in Diploma III English Study Program Faculty of Culture Studies, University of North Sumatera.
1.4 Scope of Study
about controversy and response. The Da Vinci Code is taken as the context of this paper because of its controversy. And the other topics which have no relation to the context will not be included in this paper.
1.5 Method of Study
This paper is the result of library research in which the main data is obtained from the Dan Brown’s novel The Da Vinci Code. Some supplement data are derived from various books or other literatures that relates to this discussion available in library.
The methods that used are descriptive, analytical, and comparative. Descriptive method will be used to give an objective description of the concept of the material covered. The analytical method used to see more about the response of Christians and the controversy. The comparative method will be used on things contained in the material in this paper.
1.6 Reason for Choosing Topic
This paper is the result of library research in which the main data is obtained from the Dan Brown’s novel The Da Vinci Code. Some supplement data are derived from various books or other literatures that relates to this discussion available in library.
ABSTRACT
ABSTRAK
CONTROVERSY ABOUT THE MARRIAGE OF JESUS IN DAN BROWN’S NOVEL THE DA VINCI CODE
A PAPER
BY
JEFRY ANDREAS REG. NO. 122202021
DIPLOMA – III ENGLISH STUDY PROGRAM FACULTY OF CULTURAL STUDY
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH SUMATERA MEDAN
AUTHOR’S DECLARATION
I am JEFRY ANDREAS, declare that I am the sole of author of this paper. Except whore reference is made in the text of this paper, this paper contains no material published elsewhere of extracted in whole or in part from a paper by which I have qualified for or awarded another degree.
No other person’s work has been used without due acknowledgement in the main text of this paper. This paper has not been submitted for the word of another degree in any tertiary education.
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Name : Jefry Andreas
Title of Paper : CONTROVERSY ABOUT THE MARRIAGE OF
JESUS IN DAN BROWN’S NOVEL THE DA VINCI
CODE
Qualification : D-III/Ahli Madya Study Program : English
I am willing that my paper should be available for reproduction at the discretion of the Librarian of the Diploma III English Department Faculty of Letters USU on the understanding that users are made aware of their obligation under law of the Republic of Indonesia.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
First of all, I would like to thank to my Father, Jesus Christ, for all the blessing and giving me health, strength, and inspiration to finish this paper as one of the requirements to get Diploma III certificate from English Diploma Study Program, University of North Sumatera.
Then, I would like to express a deep gratitude, love and appreciation to the dean of Faculty of Cultural Studies, Drs. Syahron Lubis, M.A. and the head of Diploma III English Study Program, Dr. Matius C.A. Sembiring, M.A. who gives me a lot of knowledge about doing in this paper. I would like to express my special gratitude to my supervisor Dr. Roswita Silalahi, M.Hum. for her time, advice and guidance to correct this paper during the process of writing and thanks to Drs. Parlindungan Purba, M.Hum as my reader. I also wish to thank all of the lecturers in English Diploma Study Program for giving me the instruction, tuition, and knowledge.
I would like to say thank to my lovely family especially to my beloved single parent, Enny Harty Tampubolon, Amd. Thank for all your motivations, advices, prays and loves to me. I present this paper for you. Thank to my one and only sister, Lisa Theodora Lastiur Runtu for your support and love. I always pray to you for your study.
Budi Halim Lubis, Ferdinan Wilhart Siagian, Muhammad Dhuha, Eka Wardhana, Fiqri Hanafiah and Onward Felix), my wonderful girls (Lisha Tantina Hasibuan, Nina Fitriani, Elsha Gustika, Intan Karunia, Lara Rizqy Yoriza, Shella Novianti, Yuni Asyifah, Nanda Yustika, Wardha Una, and Tary Navais) and my beautiful neighbours (Soraya Claudia Lubis and Annisa). Thanks for all your supports, cares and other things that help me to complete this paper. Thank you for the togetherness during our study. I love you all and I will be missing all days we spent together in campus.
I would like to say thank to all my friends (SOLIDAS 2012), my juniors (SOLIDAS 2013 and 2014), and my seniors in Diploma III English Study Program. I am sorry I can not mention all of your names one by one. I will not forget your supports.
I also do not forget to express sincere thanks to my best friend ever, Chindi Maria Fransisca Sagala (King of ‘B’). Thank you for your support, laugh and smile which take out my tired.
Finally, I do realize that this paper is still far from being perfect. Therefore, I welcome any constructive critics and suggestions for making it better. Hopefully this paper can inspire and give knowledge for anyone in the future.
Medan, 2015 The writer
TABLE OF CONTENTS
AUTHOR’S DECLARATION ... i
COPYRIGHT DECLARATION ... ii
ABSTRACT ... iii
ABSTRAK ... iv
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ... v
TABLE OF CONTENTS ... vii
1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of Study ... 1
1.2 Problem of Study ... 4
1.3 Purpose of Study ... 4
1.4 Scope of Study ... 4
1.5 Method of Study……… ... 5
1.6 Reason for Choosing Topic ... 5
2. Review of Related Literature 2.1 Novel ... 6
2.2 Jesus in the Bible as Literature... 8
2.3 Marriage in the Bible as Literature ... 10
2.4 Christian in Bible as Literature. ... 13
3. The Controversy and The Responses 3.1 The Marriage of Jesus in The Da Vinci Code ... 15
3.2 The Responses of Christian Figures ... 19
4. Conclusions and Suggestions 4.1 Conclusions ... 25
4.2 Suggestions ... 26
References ... 28
Appendices 1. Dan Brown’s Biography ... 30
