The DaVinci Code, by Dan Brown is the book I have been reading for a while now. It is about a symbologist named Robert Langdon, who meets a cryptographer named Sophie Neveu at the Louvre museum in Paris when they are investigating a strange murder. The person who was murdered left a code and arranged his body in a particular way that meant something to Langdon and Sophie, But no one else. Them discovering and deciphering the code entangled them in a dispute between the Priory of Son and Opus Dei over a possibility of a child.
“Meaning that history is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and thw winner writes the history books–books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, ‘What is history but a fable agreed upon?’ ” (P.256).
This quotation makes us think about what history actually is, and where it originates from. Because really, there is no way to confirm that history is true, it was just passed down through generations. Same with books, or plays. Anyone could’ve written a book and filled it with a bunch of lies and acted like it was true. Makes us realize that we just take history and believe it true, when the reality could be the exact opposite.