3.2 Cultural Background

The symbolism in the Da Vinci Code shows the philosophical vision of the author in a different way. The gripping story behind the novel tells us the author’s extraordinary creativity, rich knowledge and a world view. Although Dan Brown is a good story teller, a wise scholar and a cryptographist, he is also a Christian. This has direct relationship with the background of his family. His father is a famous mathematics professor and his mother is a religion musician. The family environment of Dan Brown becomes catalyst in his creation. The society the author lives regards science, human rights and Christianity as the three elements of thought. Its characteristic is the universality require of truth. When the “United States steps to the 21st century, although it is far from domestic strife and foreign aggression, it makes the populace engender confusion and dissatisfaction. People have unprecedented downturn on religion and science” 12. The urgently social and faith problems have always been priority among priorities of all previous of governments. The novel continues the postmodern peculiarity, which means elegancy from far and common from near, doesn’t lack neither the power of pure literature nor the appetency of light literature. The disruptive explain of traditional culture and the recombine of the relationship between religion and science in the novel reflects the inner anxiety of people. “At first the novel makes Da Vinci as a whole line, suggests that the novel give people elegant hint of culture”12. However, the password is embodied the concept of modern science. These elements meet the beauty appeal of readers in different levels, arises emotional resonance deep in the heart and cause people’s rethink and understand to vested history, classical culture and worshiped religion and science. The author not only caters to the will of people that to rebuild culture in a large part, but also comply with the combine of light and elegant culture in the commercial society by literature trend. The novel unscrambles Jesus as common people, spread the definition of humanity and pinity, good and evil and science and region in the traditional value system, enters people’s daily life and becomes a popular culture.