The Question of Mary Magdalene and the Holy Grail in Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code between Historical Facts and Artistic Fiction.

Abstract

Literature is the mirror of human being actual life and what is called reality, and history is the recording of the events of this life and its reality. The dichotomy literature /History in one text is what postmodernism treated as “Faction” and “metafiction”. The Da Vinci Code (2003) is a novel written by Dan Brown. The novel is about a journey of deciphering the codes and the hidden messages in one of Da Vinci’s eternal masterpieces “The Last Supper”. Many issues are brought by this novel, but the dangerous secret of Mary Magdalene and the quest of the Holy Grail were, and for quite a while, under the spot light of controversialist couple (truth/fiction). All things considered, the mystery of Holy Grail is simple discussing the biography of Mary Magdalene as Jesus' companion. Further, in light of this novel, Mary Magdalene is a lady whose womb conveys Jesus' bloodline. This portrayal of Mary Magdalene is altogether different to what the Roman Catholic Church has delineated. For the Roman Catholic Church, Mary Magdalene is one of Jesus' followers. She is a lady who came at the Jesus' crucifixion and an observer of Jesus' resurrection. This investigation is centred around those various representations of Mary Magdalene and the Holy Grail. The distinctions are seen through the viewpoint of New Historicism, where both artistic fiction texts and historical ones are taken in an equivalent position. In addition, how interpreters translate the data will pick up the distinctive portrayal of Mary Magdalene. Through the process of choosing and contextualizing, the interpreters have taken a specific rambling development dependent on their own experience and their own aim. In this manner, in light of New Historicism viewpoint, there is nothing but fact in these representations, the only thing is interpretation.