objects relate to women. Actually, the writer considered that the feminine symbols in Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code are the objects relate to women.
The writer would like to analyze the feminine symbols that hid in some artworks of Leonardo da Vinci through The Da Vinci Code novel. Really, most of Da Vinci’s paintings
have been directing artwork lovers, historians, and researchers to know what happen behind them. Especially, the writer also has been directed to cover up the paintings of
Leonardo that nuance of the feminine symbols.
B. Focus of the Study
The research focused on the feminine symbols in the novel The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown and the meaning of each symbols.
C. Research Questions
From the explanation above, the writer wants to propose the questions below: 1.
What the feminine symbols are appeared in The Da Vinci Code? 2.
What are the meanings of those feminine symbols?
C. Significance of the Research
The writer hopes the research could increase reader’s knowledge, especially the novel’s lovers, how to understand the feminine symbols and the meaning of each symbols.
Besides, the writer also hopes the research will support the reader to be more interested in the novel.
CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
A. Definition of Symbol
A symbol is a person, object, action, or idea that in addition to its literal or denotative meaning suggests as more complex meaning or range of meanings.
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As an object or an action, then symbol, represents itself. And at the same time has a larger meaning than it ordinarily has-a meaning which can often be multiple or ambiguous.
Symbols are more suggestive than figures of speech usually more complex, and often harder to interpret.
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Universal or archetypal symbols, such as The Old Man, The Mother, or The Grim Reaper, are so much a part of human experience that they suggest much the same thing to
nearly everyone.
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While, another symbol, which Conventional Symbols are likely to suggest the same thing to most people, provided they share common cultural and social assumptions a rose
suggests love, a skull and crossbones denotes poison. Such symbols are often used as a
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Laurie G. Kirszner, Literature, Reading, Reacting, Writing, Holt, Rine Hart and Winston, Inc. USA, 1991, p.248. op.cit, p. 248
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Ellman, Richard, Reading Poems, W. W. Norton and Company, Inc. USA, 1976, p. xliii
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Laurie G. Kirszner, log.cit.
kind of shorthand in films, popular, literature, and advertising, where they encourage automatic responses.
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Furthermore, Laurie G. Kirszner explains, which Conventional Symbols such as the stars and stripes of the American flag can evoke. Powerful feelings of pride and patriotism
in a group of people who share the same orientation toward it, just as the maple leaf, the Union Jack, and the hammer and sickle can.
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A more universal symbol, the cross, is a sample geometric form, but for billions of Christians it stands for Christ’s crucifixion—itself a symbolic event which represents the
attitudes toward God, the cosmos, and themselves, that two intersecting lines can somehoe embody a view of the universe gives some idea of the power symbols have.
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A national flag and the cross are conventional symbols, in that while people and nations may fight over the validity of the concepts they symbolize, most or all know, in
general, what the symbols mean. Not all flags or crosses are symbolic the white flag which means only onething—“truce”—and the crosses you use in answering a multiple-choice are
not symbols but signs.
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Symbols carry different meanings in different settings. Telling someone what a symbol “meant” it was different for all people.
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Laurie G. Kirszner, log.cit
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Laurie G. Kirszner, log.cit.
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Ellman, Richard, log.cit
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Ellman, Richard, op.cit. p. xliv
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Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, Anchor Books, A Division of Random House, Inc. Ney Work, 2003, p. 39
B. Study of Symbolism
