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Chapter 90
Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in The Da Vinci Code, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Conspiracies and Secrets
Art and Symbolism
Faith vs. Knowledge
Sacred Femininity and Revisionist History
Power and Manipulation
Summary
Analysis
Rémy restrains Teabing in the limo’s main cabin, raises the partition, and drives off with Silas. The Teacher calls Silas, pleased to hear he has the keystone. He wants Rémy to deliver it to him—not because he prefers the butler, but because he intends to punish him for disobeying orders and revealing his face. He instructs Silas to wait for him at London’s Opus Dei residence. Silas passes the phone to Rémy, sensing the man will soon die. Meanwhile, Rémy views Silas and Aringarosa as the Teacher’s pawns, now used up. On the phone, the Teacher tells Rémy to meet him in St. James’s Park.
That the Teacher intends to kill Rémy for disobeying his orders characterizes the mysterious mastermind as unforgiving and punitive (even to Silas). On the other hand, Rémy believes the Teacher has manipulated Silas and Aringarosa for his own undisclosed purposes and judges them oblivious, unaware that he’s in a similar situation. That each man views the other as expendable shows how conspiring alongside master manipulators can make a person (incorrectly) perceive themselves as immune to that same manipulation.
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