![]() Based on these descriptions of the novel, some scholars assert The Da Vinci Code is a feminist novel, which opens everyone’s eyes to a startlingly different view of the powerful role of women in the birth of Christianity. In the novel’s estimation, Mary Magdalene was a strong, independent figure, patron of Jesus, cofounder of his movement, his only believer in his greatest hour of need, author of her own Gospel, his romantic partner, and the mother of his child. ![]() Women are a large constituency of The Da Vinci Code, and the book responds in many ways to new thinking about women in western culture. Received: ApAccepted: Published: May 11, 2020ĭan Brown is able to compress extensive intellectual and religious arguments into quickly accessible sound bites, and his story takes place essentially in one twenty-four-hour period like James Joyce’s Ulysses. ![]() This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY 4.0). Nanjing Normal University, Zhongbei College, Danyang, ChinaĬopyright © 2020 by author(s) and Scientific Research Publishing Inc.
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