8 Yuval Noah Harari Quotes that will make you fear the future

 On AI: We Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet

“AI is not even near its full potential; it’s just in its infancy. We haven’t seen anything yet. So, every 10 years, you are likely to lose your job or your job is going to be completely transformed by the new wave of the latest machine learning wizardry. And if you want to stay in the game, you will have to basically reinvent yourself — and not just once, but repeatedly.”

Amazon Is Trying to Hack You

“If you don’t get to know yourself better, there is somebody out there who is, right now, trying to hack you. And not just one — Amazon is trying to hack you, and Google is trying to hack you, and Coca-Cola is trying to hack you, and the Russians and the American government and the Chinese. They are all trying to hack you right now.”

Dictatorships…. Coming Soon?

“One of the dangers in the 21st century is that machine learning and artificial intelligence will make centralized systems much more efficient than distributed systems, and dictatorships might become more efficient than democracies.”

Homo Sapiens Will Disappear

“I strongly believe that given the technologies we are now developing, within a century or two at most, our species will disappear. I don’t think that in the end of the 22nd century, the Earth will still be dominated by Homo sapiens.”

Persuasion on a Whole New Level

“What you try to do a thousand years ago with the priest preaching from the pulpit you will be able to do in a far more invasive way in 10 or 15 years with all kinds of brain-computer interfaces and direct biological interventions.

Reinvent Yourself My Ass

If you lose your job as a truck driver in 2030 to a self-driving vehicle and there is a new opening in designing software, it’s going to be a lot more difficult to retrain yourself as a software designer than it was to retrain yourself as a factory worker.

You Are a Hackable Animal

I think the maybe the most important thing for people to realize about living in the 21st century, as against the Middle Ages or the Stone Age, is that we are now hackable animals.

Future Job Market? No Idea

We are in a unique situation in human history when, for the first time, we have no idea what the job market will look like in 20 or 30 years. That was never before the case in history.

How historical sources will help to write a history :

Group Task : Language Lab Software

Language Lab group Task

 "Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club – the community of speakers of that language."

 Frank Smith

 Learning a language can sometimes be a challenging and frustrating experience. At times you might feel that you have reached a dead-end or hit a brick wall and motivating yourself can become difficult. Don’t forget that speaking a second language not only opens new doors but also has numerous other advantages. And now with the help of technology and technological tools it has become very easy as well as interesting to learn basic language learning skills. 

 Owing to the second wave of Covide19, we were not able to gather at the Department to complete this task of reviewing the Language Lab software which is basically very important for LSRW Skills but now we are somewhat feeling relief from the second wave and we got a reminder from our Professor to complete the task so, we have formed a group and completed this task.

 What is Language Lab Software?

 Language Lab is a language learning software that provides all the features required by teachers for language teaching-learning process using various activities such as pronunciation practice, video presentation, audio broadcasting, quiz and exercise. 

 What Happens in a Language Lab?

 Language labs provide practice in an entertaining and interactive way to acquire the 4 main language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. ... Complimentary: Language labs allow students to reinforce material learned in class by putting them into practice through interactive activities. 

Advantages of Language Lab Software 

 If some one wants to say about language lab's advantages so there will be a one answer its works on learners LSRW skills very effectively and also gave something good to read apart from stories too for eg.paragraph on Abraham Lincoln etc. Helps to enhance four basic skills. -It gives some kind of test so learners can evaluate them selves, -phonetics is part of this language lab which helps learners how pronounce particular word or sentence, -It can be considered perfect program for primary students -It has 3 different levels so all type of students can learn from this software. 

 Disadvantages of Language Lab Software

 Fixed and static in place, sometimes it's hard to sit at the same place for hours, Learner distraction is possible Lack of physical surveillance Technical glitches, coz of old versions of software, one feels bored and loses interest in learning. ESL was not working at all, The Drag and drop answering method was so difficult as one has to try several times to drag the drop the correct answer to fill the blank, We have done this task in a group, almost every member felt difficulty during the listening task coz of the assent.

REVIEW  

Difference between Mobile and Computer Application preferred for English Language Learning.

France was firstly graced with digital lab in 1908. The actual aim wasn't only to built variety of language laboratories, but how schools and colleges can utilize those more effectively. It is having many advantages as well as disadvantages. Not having those how one can fulfill the purpose of learning as good lqb emphasizes on culturally valid real-life situations, materials closely integrated one problem at a time and maintaining normal conversational speed.

On the other side placing the same thing in contemporary times. This particular center is independent of teaching, provides voluntary to choose materials on one's own, as well as to seek correction and assess their own performance.

Basing my views on all these aspects, attempted to write the difference between the two.

As the device changes and the apps, being supported only on simultaneous devices. it would obviously be having some differences regarding its operating, accessing and functioning systems. We only had to see how when it comes to experience such a type of learning on two simultaneous devices, it differs a lot.

On tab, one is supposed to install the "namo e-tab application", which is incorporated with British Council Language Lab. Under the Menu section, one can find many language learning related topics; like enhancement of Skills : LSRW, Grammar, Vocabulary, Business English, IELTS related courses etc. The latter tests your language proficiency, competency,  and provides you with techniques, tips, and strategies to have command on the concerned language. However the course is paid one, distributed into 12 weeks, allotting 3 hours per week. The good thing about this application is, especially for the basics of learning a language. It will provide you with all the related tasks, videos(if needed), downloadable worksheets, concerning any pursued topic, and lastly ask you to take a quiz, to check your understanding. After completing any quizzes, it will show you the level of language(where you're standing). Either on elementary, pre-intermediate, intermediate or at advanced level. Thus perceiving your position, you may come to know, now what to do to further improve your language proficiency.

In a way, except the device distinction, there isn't any remarkable difference between the two than providing two variants of software for language learning. The structure and the method have differences, but not the means through which it is provided, altogether adopting a different strategy to make students' learn.

In Dell Software, each and every lesson is given explicitly. For example : Under "Question Formation" how to make 'wh' questions and how to attempt 'Is/Are/Have/Has' questions and how with specificity the answers should be given. In an exercise named 'Preposition' an object is highlighted, to identify the position and give the position its name, one has to identify where the object is and accordingly name the spot considering the prime position of the main object(in, above, below etc). It is the way through which one can learn easily, only by identifying the objects. Accordingly the treatment is given to 'singularity' and 'plurality', subsequently one can learn all the grammar portion; comprising tenses,articles(articles related to vowels) etc.

When visualizing the childhood days, we had been given an opportunity to learn in this way. This would have been more interesting and fun making than experiencing today, as in our 2nd class book the similar pattern was adopted. Which makes one wonder if the entire pattern is digitalized so succinctly. One main difference is, in mobile apps, they are giving quizzes, while in e-dell software, the traditional pattern is followed by giving an exercise, after understanding each lesson.

In Dell software particularly it is found, though the lesson starts systematically from the home tab and finishes as highlighted in index, but somewhere when such lessons like, 'sentence correction' where you have to drag the item from the given table, drop where you have to restructure the sentence again, with all its comprising elements. There might be some intended errors considering singularity, plurality of verbs or indicators. When going through this exercise drag and drop tools didn't work(as felt by one of the students), seemingly it was as one is supposed to see, read and learn, rather than doing any activity actively.

Thus is the experience. When you actually sit to learn, you would realize. As we already know, human needs can't be satiated at once. It is as endeavoring an adventure, overcoming, attempting another and in a similar pattern the Journey goes on, without taking a halt. When you experience something on your own, you would realize, what are we provided with? Is it enough for us? Some alterations were required or not..How in absence of one, the task is disrupted badly. But then how to stabilize. It is only the situation that treats you as a mother, how you should be well-equipped with all soft-skills. Required if you're ready to learn.

Thank you,....

Online Education: How to off audio during Ongoing Gmeeting

 With the arrival of Covid19, everything has been disrupted badly. What was at first static, is now evolved into something new. Of which noone has imagined, but has to confront. No matter what difficulties encountered. You have to face those, find problems, make its overcome, without giving it a second thought. If not able to perform with frequency of time, you would be somewhere thrown out  and won't be able to find your our left traces.

Similar to this something, when our MA was initiated, we did our first part thorough in traditional mode, another second part; half entirely online and the other half in hybrid mode. While our presentation season : 3, 4 both were aired online. In prior season I found some difficulty presenting online, as my voice was echoing, though having two devices at disposal. From the errors only you learn and I learnt that how speaker button and audio off button(when tapping on Speaker button, top right on your meeting screen) both are interconnected. When you want to speak, speaker button must have correction against, if don't need to, just tap on audio off. Doing this, from which device you're sharing screen, you can share feasibly well, without getting your voice back, of the device, from which you're speaking and you can freely share your screen from the device, that is given command of 'audio off'.

Sharing some screenshots 

Tap at top right side of Google meet screen

By default the options would be appearing this way, speaker option in active mode, if it is in active mode you will hear two voices as colliding with one another. 

So when you will tap on the third option(marked : Audio off) it will disable speaker button, and let you off audio button.

Now you can speak normally as you're delivering only from one device.



Thank you😊🥰

The Da Vinci Code2003-Robert Langdon : The Constitution of the title

Introduction

The novel, Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, published in 2003. A number of his novels are considered to be a treasure hunt; Angels & Demons, Inferno, The Lost Symbol, Origin and the present novel itself. In 2005, the author was influenced by getting consideration of being one of the hundred world famous influencers, who was credited with keeping afloat the publication industry by producing such mysterious novels. His novels are translated into 56 languages and more than two million printed copies are sold. The novel Da Vinci Code is about a code, revolving around the entire novel and also giving push to such events and incidents to lead further the novel, revealing laterly, what is becoming of the puzzling fibonacci sequence.

Abstraction

The Novel Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown, itself speaks of its significance, that is based on decoding the code, and the truth is in front of you. While trying to decode the code, many mysteries; regarding Christianity, Paganism, sacred-feminism, through various symbols, artworks and motifs, which contain the main symbolism, came into being with its own proclaiming  truth, accepted somewhere, somewhere made faultery and somewhere known the essence tried to inscribe in a book. It is said: "The magnet only attracts the things, where the magnet belongs to. There are many elements otherwise, which may have attracted, but magnet, doesn't lend them that opportunity, as they don't have that tendency". So attracted the righteous one who had the true temperament to understand the whole behind curtain picture, if revealed it may have dire consequences.

Keywords: Dan Brown, the Da Vinci Code, symbols, motifs, art-works, Christianity, Paganism, Sacred-Feminism.

The background of the novel

The history of this novel is taken from the 'Holy blood & Holy grail books - Henry Lincoln, Michael Biagnet and Richard Leigh' and 'The book of John : The actual quest is for, "the Holy grail". The New Testament'(comprising entirely a bygone history, though traces have been vanished but it has been searched out about)Where Mary Magdalene is alleged, 'a faultery woman' until and unless her chastity isn't proved, she won't be considered as 'sacred' as she was used to. While on the other side, the statement says, Mary was present when Jesus was crucified, gathering the blood of Jesus in a container(that is the actual holy grail). On the contrary, the story is that Jesus and Mary had got married secretly and during the last supper, she was sitting beside Jesus, being one of the apostles. Thus they signified to be producing the generation of 'Holy blood' where Sophie Neveu and his brother, assumed to be two of the descendants, following this holy bloodline, of Merovingian kings of France. While it can't be as such as the historical character is mere representation of people, so how only two of the contestants can be of belonging, while who are others? It perhaps is possible that the entire abode of people belonging to merovingian kings of France but in attempt to survive on Earth, fractions are made, therefore conflict in beliefs.

The Significance of 'The Da Vinci Code'

The significance of 'the da vinci code's is when there is history involved or it is mere a shallow pan without material to proceed further. Thus the author has well-woven the history with present time. In attempt to do so it is retaining the significance of history as well as keeping intaction with the mysterious novel. Therefore construing an idea about christianity 'what was christianity? How its conceptualization was? How it has fractions, what sort of, some sacred some undeciphered yet denoting the special realm ?

The Da Vinci code itself is impregnated with all the mysteries, regarding the Holy grail. Jacques Sauneire is murdered in the Louvre museum along with three Senechaux, although isn't revealed by whom in the novel, but by Silas: a monk, hired by Leigh Teabing(later on revealed). The mystery revolves around the 'vitruvian man' being drawn by Jacques Sauniere himself, on his navel, when torched by Fache(DCPJ) getting back away, its beam illuminates some of the part. Sauniere was the worshipper of (paganism). The sketch in the novel signifies nothing, but half of a woman that is amalgamated with the pointed top head of a man. This is how harmony is established in society and if harmony isn't presumed in this way, there is mere anarchy surfaced. Subsequently the world was torn apart. Mary Magdalene is such a crucial figure, that signifies the very title of the novel and therefore sacred-feminism.

Thus this is the very figure that leads the progression of the novel further.

Symbols, Artworks and Motifs

These three elements in this novel are of much importance, the entire mystery is unraveled by these constituting parts. When Robert Langdon and Fache, approach near the body of Jaques Sauniere lying on the parquet floor, Langdon observed the body lying in the shape of pentacle(five pointed star) and it seems the curator himself has stripped off his clothes and drawn something upon. Which Langdon says belongs to the pagan religion. Later on some scrambling inscription in purple letters emerges beside his body, that reads..

O, Draconian Devil!

Oh, Lame Saint!

P. S. Find Robert Langdon

13-3-2-21-1-1-8-5

There are always two energies in the world good and bad, besides we humans are shadows of these two binaries. 'Draconian Devil' and 'Lame Saint' are two different personalities or something an indication of insufficiency without one another, therefore the two only are capable of making the whole part or it may be the point to Robert Langdon's journey in itself followed by these two powers. Which he gradually gets on with into the novel.

At first only three lines are fathomable, the last one is fathomed, when Sopie later on saves Robert Langdon from the clutches of Fache, who has kept Langdon under observation as the last line reads "Find Robert Langdon". When earlier having found the scrambling, Fache told that perhaps, Sauniere has written the name of the killer(La Vengeance), denied by Langdon, how it can be as the text as well as the symbol drawn on the curator's navel aren't coinciding with each other, by connecting with history. But by again giving a glimpse of history, in accordance with the curator, Langdon is able to get that the curator was actually belonging to Yin Yang like concept therefore Sacred-feminism, where a woman is revered.There is nothing as Leonardo Da Vinci was favoring paganism and loathing Catholic religion. How can it be? While Fache was trying to impose that this indictment is such and Leonardo Da Vinci was commercializing Christian religion, he was a homosexual, where a banker has spent his entire investment. In a way trying to portray Sauniere's character with derogation. With which he wasn't at all concerned. 

It is revealed as the novel progresses further that 'the code is combination of both; Leonardo Da Vinci & Monalisa' and the number isn't something ordinary but 'a fibonacci sequence' regarded with divine ratio. Where some of the two numbers are followed by the third number(summing up the prior two). Eventually it is disclosed as it is nothing P. S. means (Sophie Neveu), Sauniere was his grandfather and it is the account number, supposed to be opened by Sophie Nevue with the help of Religious symbologist(Robert Langdon). Having found a small chest box, they hear some gurgling sound coming from the box. The inside shape seems to be of the Holy Grail, but the thing wasn't put so. Proceeding further the secret is disclosed at last, when Langdon approaches the container, where Mary Magdalene is lying down. Somewhere beneath the Roseline, the pyramid of 'Chalice and Blade' is situated. The chalice is 6 feet long, while the blade, is in supporting position, is half of the size of the chalice and this is how two pyramids were created by Jacques Sauniere. It is observed in the novel, where there is the clue of the traces of holy grail, experienced in the chest, hangs an artwork, which fills anyone with wonder, as Langdon feels seeing at first sight.

Motifs till the end of this novel, keeps on recurring as a reminder, the thing is still unexposed, and you're supposed to remember until and unless it isn't disclosed.

This is how the main symbol resurfaces on and often, engulfing other miniature symbols, motifs and artworks, associated with the holy grail. All the associatives, conveys the traits of the holy grail. But one can see in Fache : a contrasting persona unfurling through orthodoxy towards faith, a particle of Opus Dei institution, where according to the Sardine sister, a woman is considered inferior to a man and treated as a trivial being, being observed by her. While in Saint Sulpice institution, the woman is free to live her own part, though with some reliable restrictions.

Conclusion

Deciphering the mystery, it seems Mary Magdalene, though the figure of history, requires her traces through her own descendants, put into the worldly matters. We found in the novel, the grandmother and grandfather of Sophie Noveu, along with her own blood mother, but in similar manner, Jesus's character isn't fictionalized. Is it because "Mary Magdalene" was outcasted, so she was given such prominence by her own people"? Are the people surrounding, actually favoring her? Just goodness in disguise? Was she more good and pious in her approach, the people confronted her with enviousness, melted into righteousness?..It remains to be seen.

Works Cited

Brown, Dan., "The Da Vinci Code." Published in 2003.

Lincoln, Henry., Biagnet, Michael & Leigh, Richard., "The Holy Blood & The Holy Grail." Published by Jonathan Camp, in 1982.

Phillips, Stone., "Secret Behind, the da vinci code.", nbcnews.com, 14th April, 2005. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna7491383

The New Testament : The book of John

Winters, Dan & Devlin, Keith., "Cracking the Da Vinci Code.", Discovermagazine.com, 26th June, 2004. https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/cracking-the-da-vinci-code.

Assignment Submission : Waiting for the Barbarians - Allegorical Representation

 Introduction

The novel 'waiting for the barbarians' - J. M. Coetzee, published in 1980, whose title is taken from the same title poem, by C. P. Cavafy. The novel is influenced by Italian writer Dino Buzzati's ' the Tartar Steppe ', published in 1940. The novel revolves around two main characters, who're being allegorised in the novel, one is exercising power, another is resisting the power, respectively Colonel Joll and the magistrate are in conflict, due to the different temperament of minds and unidentical ideology.

Abstract

In 'Waiting for the Barbarians' novel, we're supposed to see how imperialism is allegorized here, through two different characters. How a person as unwanted and rebellious to the happenings, in and around, is thrown away unpitiely from the established society. The society now speaks only the empire's name, not of the oppressive forces, working against and so tries to banish them from the society, they can't be ever adjusted within the confined spaces of society. As they find unable to adjust, they're outcasted and found a new space from themselves. Confronting this new contraction of life, how many things seem to be emerging out, which until now were lying untouched. But now it is tangiblized, sensationalized, felt and given required response, though in some amount partially.

Keywords 

Waiting for the Barbarians, J. M. Coetzee, Allegorization, Imperialism.

Vivid definitions for literary allegorization

Brenda Machosky reminds us: "Allegory is to say one thing and mean another" and "It has always demanded that we think otherwise"(7). It is a way of writing and interpreting literature, highlighting contrast between an apparent meaning.

Keeping this literary quote in mind, on allegorization in 'waiting for the barbarians'. When Colonel Joll has just arrived, with two disc glasses, those are more opaque(as per the magistrate's observation) and which indirectly imply when he says, he can see only the opaque glasses, while Colonel can see anything from inside. Aptly, whatever is going in Colonel Joll's mind at that time, noone can see, even predict, but yes by his demeanor, one can suspect, there is something going on in his mind. Though is still not surfaced, but in sometime would get surfaced and this happens later on in the novel. When the Magistrate is helping that girl out of sympathy, which interprets otherwise later on, he is entrapped in the trap, of deceiving the authority by helping the girl, thus he must be imprisoned in Jail for a very long time.

The magistrate only knows what is told by Colonel Joll, about driving animals, how once on frontier, people used to eat snakes and he had captured an antelope, but don't know as he is belonging to third beauru, an important division of civil service, he won't spare him. What he actually is, not shown and what he isn't is acted upon repeatedly.

In one more incidence, when the Magistrate is around the hut, where prisoners are kept. Eyeing the old-man and a boy, he tries to negotiate what the matter is. Getting as nothing but as they were on road, in search of the doctor, as the boy has developed a sore, they were abducted and fetched here. They altogether don't know what is the matter and what is the crime that they have committed. While narrating the whole, experienced experience, the boy continuously looks at the Colonel, through Magistrate's shoulder. Trying to say whatsoever has happened to him, for everything this Colonel is responsible. The Magistrate as novice to this other face of Colonel, imbibe he must be looking staringly, because his spex that he had worn, is visually so weird.

This way, the Magistrate becomes victim, while the colonel becomes the imperialist. Through whom the power is operating, is still not mentioned in the novel. When the winter arrives Colonel with all his associatives left the place, planning to go somewhere. Where isn't mentioned in the novel.

Thus here as Walter Benjamin says: "Allegories are, in the realm of thoughts, what ruins are in the realm of things". Subsequently the quote is logically inscribed as if allegories ruined in the realm of things, and if it is found in thoughts, "Allegory then, is the doubling indeed, the multiplication of texts, within and around the work of literature or art - David Joselit.

Seems to be a suitable quote. From one text only, many consequent concepts and methods are coming into being, getting marked through various writers, presented through other facilitative artistic works.

The allegorized characters in the novel

I have already discussed the matter in detail, in previous point. I would like to elaborate now my point in succinct manner.

The Magistrate by giving in detail description of tribal people and their surroundings, trying to convey that they can't indulge themselves more in committing crimes, and if committed incase, they pay penalty in form of paying fine or doing some labour work. One can literally visualize, what would be the proportion of committing crime left for the tribes. It rightly signifies, that noone can get anything easily but by pain as the Magistrate says..

"Pain is truth, all else is subject to doubt, that is what I bear  away from my conversation with Colonel Joll."

Tribal people's pain, can be literally seen as they don't have any good position in their lives, they simply steal or cut a pack of animals from the train, though in return raided, endeavors to survive. That is why he wants to convey that they don't cost much, so how they would committ any crime? They themselves don't have enough food to make them thrive..They would try to get the food or involve themselves, committing crimes. In return not getting anything but mere punishment..How it is possible. Actually wants to show him the structure of barbarian society. While he isn't able to see the pain, perhaps understanding it as mere pretension and utilizing his fake and unuseful  power, which is full of bragging nothing else, and violence, to get the truth. Who are not at all hiding any truth, in concern they don't have anything to speak, as more immersed in making their lives at least ordinary to live.

Thus the Colonel seems to be representing 'imperialistic approach' while the Magistrate mere a 'victim' who doesn't understand what actually is lying behind the disc glasses and how he may know the actual truth. He only sees the life, as he is habituated to see, beyond this he us unable to see. This is where allegory thrives in thoughts and get ruined in things. As and when we see any made sculpture, we identify it, by the impression  the statue had left on us. For which we had to refer a historical documentary to get factually how the persona was.

Conclusion

Hence speech is expression and indeed just as writing is. Traditionally the literal meaning in allegory is overshadowed by the figurative one. Because this surface meaning is doubled by the figurative one, external to the text and because allegory refers us to distant origins of meaning suggested by Benjamin's metaphor of "ruins"(178), a good deal of allegorical interpretation becomes abstractly intellectual trying to establish link between what is stated and what is implied.

Similarly happening in this novel, though the time and place are unspecified.

Works Cited

Buzzati, Dino., "The Tartar Steppe." Published in 1940.

P. C., Cavafy, "Poem: Waiting for the Barbarians." Written in 1898, Published in 1904.

M., J., Coetzee, "Waiting for the Barbarians." Published in 1980.

Neimneh, Shadi. "The Visceral Allegory of Waiting for 'the Barbarians' : A post-modern rereading of J. M. Coetzee's apartheid novels." Callaloo, vol. 37, No. 3, 2014, pp. 694-709. JSTOR. www.jstor.org/stable/24265165. Accessed 7 June 2021.

Assignment Submission : Cinema - Reading Movie Documentary of The Da Vinci Code

 Reading the Da Vinci Code movie, through Lacanian and Freudian theories on cinema by combining with Scopophilia and Voyeurism

Introduction

The Da Vinci Code novel published in 2003 and the novel adapted into film, released in 2006. All characters; Robert Langdon(Tom Hanks), Sophie Neveu(Audrey Tautou), Leigh Teabing(Ian Mckellen), Silas(Paul Bettany), Beautiful Fache(Jean Reno). These all characters, read in the novel, are  portrayed in the film. The film is said to have themes, based on religionism, institutionalized belief system, and a specific culture, followed by the descendants of Mary Magdalene(Who believed to be belonging to the royal  bloodline of Merovingian king).

Abstract

Here we concern to read the Da Vinci Code movie, where all the characters seems to be immersed into the only matter, that is called the code, 'Da Vinci'. Let's see how the film is operating, applying various theories.

Reading any movie, requires many theories and methods to be kept in mind. It won't only suffice by keeping those theories in mind, but how you can apply those theories, while reading any of the movies. Those theories would lent you an insight towards experiencing the movie. Through which you would be able to penetrate yourself in deep, visualizing the matter distantly and coming close to, reflecting to yourself and accordingly serving the space of filtering in and filtering out.

This paper aims to see how by reading through all the applicable theories, it lent out a further point to ponder upon, only in minute form.

Keywords

The Da Vinci Code, Movie Reading, Lacan, Freud, Scopophilia, Voyeurism.

MOVIE READING

The movie starts from the murder of Jacques Sauniere in museum Louvre. Where as in suspicion area, Religious symbologist is about to go to bed, taken accommodation in Ritz Hotel. The scene seems to be more gloomy, gradually transforming into sombreness, from there into light of the revealing scene, when it is conveyed: Jacques Sauniere is died, one of the members of Priory Sion, with his three Senechuax. As seen Robert Langdon's name in calendar, he is approached by DCPJ Fache. To the same organization, Sophie belongs, by being a cryptographer. 

Gradually the entire story opens up as being blindfolded to audience, which serves the reason, to arouse curiosity in audience, sitting in their comfort zone and impels them to think, 'what happens next'. And what is this figure, named "Mary Magdelene" who keeps history for herself. The novel as well as the film adapted upon on the same novel are claimed to have fictionalized the story by fusing into.

By unraveling one after another symbols, the entire movie is getting opened infront of the audience, and eventually ending by finding the main character, on whom the entire movie is based upon.

Movie : Social Context

Socially the movie is very high in retaining its texture. All are normal in the movie, until and unless, the villain playing behind isn't revealed. As happening in one of the scenes, where "Leigh Teabing" is only known by his good behavior, maintains with both; Sophie and Robert Langdon, but noone knows the actual murderer of the Priory Sion. Silas himself was hired by Leigh Teabing to kill Jacques Sauneire and three Senechaux, similarly Aringarosa is also connected, and these all are the persons, who somewhere are connected to the institution, Opus Dei. Where differences regarding sexuality, surfaces. Considering this, men considered to be superior, while women as insignificant being. Who don't have desires, emotions, feelings, inclinations, only mere a puppet of handheld men being, utilizing as they want. While Saint Sulpice promotes altogether a different institution, where women are adored and given deserved respect, and so in one of the scenes, when getting call from Opus Die as someone wants to come to Saint Sulpice, only to see Sandrine sister, the sister is disturbed but normalize herself, prepared to confront the person, going to pay visit. In contrast only one can decipher the actual frame of embodiment important for further uplifting of concerned society.

Movie : Political Context

In movie we see basing on various religions, policies are formulated and accordingly kept for functioning and regulation. The quality of religion voices the played policy by each religion. In one of the scenes, when Robert Langdon is enquiring about the code, scrambled beside Sauniere's body, with Fache. Fache speaks of Leonardo Da Vinci, as against catholic religion, while indeed, it wasn't so. He believed in paganism, approves when found some evidences based of aforementioned institution. On part of Fache, it wasn't the case but seemed as intentedly trying to inflict him with false abuses, and tainting him considering his religion to be superior.

Movie : Cultural Context

A Christian culture is seen, who has conflict with Paganism. If one is to see from the point of view of Mary Magdelene, who is absent in this novel. All characters in one or the other way trying to promote their own cultures. Mary wants to convey, I had a very rich bloodline, but I wasn't predicting the generation of this very ancestry would be as such, following their ways of believing. If following, but trying to impose on others the same, not happening so, there is rivalry among them or then at extreme level, the person is murdered/killed. While she herself wasn't wanting for her generation this, so a particle of Mary Magdalene is still there to run the show, but Sophie herself seems to be trapped in the same entrapping net and not able to realize, what she herself has played, actually is faux than nothing else. Ultimately it only seems as one has fulfilled some required companionship. What one was trying to found outside, actually had been lying inside, since times. But still she isn't able to recognize the inner call, and treading ahead unprecedented.

In last supper scene, Mary Magdelene is explicitly displayed sitting beside Jesus, representing as one of his thirteen apostles.

Left Impression on Spectator

The two kinds of Apparatus theories are connected by the idea that the cinema stimulates or causes archaic regression, but while the first emphasizes the 'inner' aspect of this process, the retreat of the subject into a boundary undifferentiates state.

The latter emphasizes the impact of archaic desire on how and what we see.  Since archaic desire characteristically manifests itself in adult life through perversions, psychoanalytic film theorists proposed that the cinema is distinctive in mobilizing a whole range of perverse pleasures.

Concerning these two apparatus theories. When anyone watches, what does the cinema do; if it stimulates or causes archaic regression.

When one is watching this film, there may be some feeling like, how it would have been good, if I were Audrey Tautou! How smartly she is working as a cryptographer, how a handsome here, she has! As everything is in her lap and the spectator is abandoned of(A kind of craving with which not you, but someone is blessed). And when it is more liked by anyone, the character is worn out by the concerned person, where Lacanian theory comes into being: 'Looking that informed by desire, is defined by gaze'. Which isn't giving you self-assurance but making you paranoid, which is away from what you have perceived. Here is where your unconscious come into being. You only know how good looking someone is, and how gifted she/he is but you won't have the same experience they had gone through. You would only see, how you used to see your own life. This is how the utilization and usefulness differs from one another. They have utilized you must only have imitated and subsequently stimulated the world of appearances.

Due to the theory of mirror-misrecognition by Lacan himself, you can watch the movie and imaginatively see yourself functioning, but you can't see yourself in the movie, as mirror shows you your real picture. It is only the product of your representation system. It is also happening sometimes, when you watch any movie, you don't have any way than seeing yourself in this way. This is how you're stimulating yourself, this is how you feel yourself to be resisting. At such times such approaches seem to be reliable. In a way each and every approaches, one or another way, reflecting the lives people lived.

Likewise theory of Voyeurism and Scopophelia came into being. One makes you aware of the presence of stimulus, another won't make you realize as sexual pleasure has found its way in your own self. You see yourself under someone, whom the unconscious being is desiring, ready to abandon owned self, denoting your own personality.

Thus the impression that is left on spectators, varied in many ways, and it is through the representation system, the spectator reflects upon and accordingly watches the movie, if found appropriate but not so worthy to reflect upon, is hurled by retreating the subject into boundary undifferentiates state and this is how filtering in filtering out processes are moderated.

If it is stimulating again by some incident/occurring situation and this is how one incident is postponed and later on resumed, remaining to be seen. If it is recurring in this way, does this suggest, that once the person was unable to but now have some ability to fight with the circumstances, confronted. Or is it something, that until and unless, not solved out, keeps on surfacing? Like revenging and avenging work.

Conclusion

Hence by reading the movie, one or the other way, one reflects oneself but not able to see oneself as mirror dares to show. She/he is only seen as a shadow in river, when glimpsed on and found weird, unwanted, not crucial in anyway, attempts to run away from the situation. With others, it happens otherwise.

Works Cited

Brown, Dan., "The Da Vinci Code." Published in 2003.

"FILM: The Da Vinci Code. Released in 2006.

Allen, Richard., "Psychoanalytic Film Theory." Published in 2004, Blackwell Publishing.