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Conflict in the Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown CONFLICT IN THE DA VINCI CODE BY DAN BROWN Graseli V. Komenaung, Nihta V.F. Liando, Imelda Lolowang English Education Department Faculty of Language and Arts Universitas Negeri Manado Tondano, Indonesia Email : [email protected] Abstract : This research is mainly to find out cause of conflict reflected in Brown’s novel entitled The Da Vinci Code through the characters named Robert Langdon and Sophie Neveu. In conducting her research, the writers use qualitative research since the data collected are in form of words not number. The objective approach is used in analyzing the data. As the result of this research, it is found that conflict can be revealed in the story The Da Vinci Code. In a conflict resolution involving multiple parties, Langdon and Sophie are filled with fear because several times they are almost killed by gunshots from secret hunters about Sang Real, one of them is Sir Leigh Teabing who is their friend when on the way to solving the conflict betraying them for the sake of a secret. Although they face some obstacle but finally they can solve conflicts that have occurred. Keywords : Conflict, conspiracy, mystery 1. INTRODUCTION “Conflict is an escalation of a disagreement, which is common Novel is a fiction prose narrative of prerequisite, and is characterized by the considerable length, representing character existence of conflict behaviour, in which the and even as it in real life by a plot of scheme beings are actively trying to damage one of section of greater or less Complexity at another. Conflict can occur between large (Funk and Wagnall, 1996:886). Based individuals, labour strikes, competitive on statement above, novel is a narrative sport, or armed conflict” prose that includes a story of human being. (Nicholson,1992:13). Live is a never easy in as a human being, The writers are interested in analyzing the there are so many challenges and problems topic because the story in this novel is very that come in every moment in people life, it interesting and gripping. Each person must sometimes brings both suffering and have his or her own secret (of course he or depression. So many people’s lives are in his knows what kind a secret is). Only practically sometimes they want to the each trusted people can be told but some group of other down for the sake of themselves. people are willing to lose their life for the sake of the secret. Just as the story in The Da Vinci Code first time was Brown’s novel, who call themselves the published in 2003 by Dan Brown. The Da Priori of Sion, that will die for the sake of the Vinci Code is a novel which tells about an great secreet that causing conflict involving expert symbolically named Rober Langdon an expert symbol Robert Langdon, as also who killed a museum curator named main character in The De Davinci Code, Jacquest Sauniere. When he was in Paris to novel written by Dan Brown. do business Robert Langdon, urgent phone call late at night that language expert Sophie Neveu, granddaughter of Jacques Sauniere. In their adventures through the streets of RIVIEW OF LITERATURE Sophie and Langdon, they should Conflict race against a mysterious enemy who continue to follow their every step. JELT (Journal Of English Language and Literature Teaching) Vol. 06 No. 01 June 2021 P.ISSN : 2548-7728 E.ISSN : 2599-0373 67 Conflict refers to some form of friction, “Literature is a vital record of what man disagreement, discord arising within a group have seen in life. When they experienced in when the beliefs or action of one or more life. What they have though and feel about members of the group are either resisted by those aspect of it which have the most or unacceptable to one or more members of immediate and enduring interest for human another group. Conflict can arise between beings.” members of two or more group, and involve violence, interpersonal discord, and Literature is different from the other psychological tension, known as intergroup informative writing such as geography or conflict. Conflict in-group often follows a history because it has different language in specific course. Routin group interaction is use. Literature usually uses diction or first disrupted by an initial conflict, often imagery, while informative language used caused by differences of opinion, the daily language. That is why literary disagreement between members, or scarcity language usually has implicit meaning and of resources. At this point, the group is no we need to analyse it. In the order hand, longer united, and my split into coalitions. literature refers merely to imaginative This period of conflict escalation in some works; it has identified particularly with cases gives way to a conflict resolution artistic forms or verbal expression. Wellek stage, after which the group can aventually and Waren (1963:22) states that seems beat return to routine group interaction one again if we limit it to the art of literature, that is, to (Nicholson,1992:197). imaginative literature. Literature is a creative written by an author with aesthetic Although the involved parties may hope values, which makes literature regarded as to reach a solution to their dispute quickly, an art. Literature differentiates from the psychological and interpersonal factors can other art products, and its aesthetics or frustrate their attempts to control the artistic values, make it different from other conflict, and this case, conflict escalation writing. occurs. A number of factors including increased commitment to one’s position, use Novel is a fiction misleading for although of harder influence tactics, and formation of fiction including made up imagery elements, coalitions propel the escalation of the it has potential for being true nature of conflict (D. R Forsyth,2010). reality, true to human experience (Griffith, 1986:41). Conflict is common in the way about the possibility of deferent perception and ideas in a society. Griffith (1986:45) in Writing Essay about literature state that: “there are 2. METHODOLOGY two general categories of conflict, external conflict and internal conflict take a between Research design individual or beween individual and force nature.” Qualitative research is a system of inquiry, which seeks to build a holistically, From the definition, it can be concluded largely narrative, description, to inform the that conflicts happen or take place between a researcher’s understanding of a social or person and himself, between people and cultural phenomenon. Qualitative research another group. takes place in natural setting employing a combination of observation of observation, Definition of Literature and novel iterviews, and document review. Mcmilan and Schumacher (1993:794) says that Literature is a one of the media that “Primarily an inductive process of people use to express their though and organizing data into categories and feeling, pour down his or idea in an indentifying patterns (relationship) among expectation that his or her idea may be categories”. This definition implies that data shared to another as what Hudson (1965:10) and meaning emerge “organically” from the asserted: research context. JELT (Journal Of English Language and Literature Teaching) Vol. 06 No. 01 June 2021 P.ISSN : 2548-7728 E.ISSN : 2599-0373 68 Qualitative research of strategy is judge solely by criteria intrinsic to its mode predication on underlying assumption and of being”. perspectives. Wiersma (1995:211-212) summarized these as: So it means that objective approach focuses on the literary work itself without a. Phenomena are viewed in its entirety any influences from external factors of the holistically, is not possible to reduce novel. This statement does not mean that the complex phenomena into a few writer does not need to have other materials, interpendent or independent factors. but it means that the central point of this b. Investigators research in “nature”. research is the novel itself. Researchers do not impose their assumtions, limitations, and 3. ANALYSIS delimitations, or definition, or research designs upon emerging data. Trigger of the Conflict The researcher’s role is to record what he or she observes and/or collects The Da Vinci Code begins with the from subjec’s in their natural murder of a French Museum Curator his environment. named Jacques Sauniere. A scholarly c. “Reality” exists as a subjects see it. Harvard Profesor and a beautiful French The researcher is to record, fully, cryptologist are commissioned to desipher a accurately, and unbiasedly, that message left by curator before his death. The reality as seen through the eyes of message turns out to reveal the most subjects. profound conflict in the history of human d. Pos hoc conclusions emerge from kind a cover up of the true message of Jesus emerge from the data. Priori Christ by a secret arm of the roman Catholic conclusion are avoided. Church named Opus Dei. Before Jacquest Sauniere died the tried to leave a mark so that someone can solve Data Collection mystery, which has been stored, as describes in under quotation: In order to get the best result of the studies analysis, the writers decide about I must so some way, he was trapped how the data collects. The writers divide the inside the Grand Galery, and there existed data into two categories that can be only one person one earth to whom he could explained as the primary data and secondary pass the torch. Sauniere gazed up the walls data. Primary data is work itself and the of his opulent prison. A collection of the secondary data is the other sources that world’s most famous paintings seemed to supported the primary data. smile down on him like old friend. Data Analysis Wincing in pain, he summoned all of this faculties and strength.
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