| SHAPESHIFTER |
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| AUTHOR |
DAN BROWN |
LEWIS PERDUE |
LEWIS PERDUE |
| BOOK TITLE |
The Da Vinci Code |
The Da Vinci Legacy |
Daughter of God, Linz
Testament |
| DATE PUBLISHED |
2003 |
1983 |
1985 (Linz), 2000 |
| NAME |
The Teacher (revealed at end
to be Lee Teabing) |
James Elliott Kimball IV |
George Stratton |
| EDUCATION |
Oxford, Harvard (Ivy League)
as "backup" (DVC:227) |
Ivy League (DVL:39) |
Ivy League (DoG:23) |
| SOCIAL STANDING |
Snobbish, Wealthy English
blueblood (DVC:217) Knight (DVC:endCh51) |
Snobbish, wealthy New England
blueblood (DVL:39) |
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| OCCUPATION |
Historian, Grail expert
(DVC:216) |
Killer for the Bremen
Legation (DVL:40) |
Attache, American Consulate,
Zurich (DoG:40) |
| SHAPESHIFTER ROLE |
The Teacher (DVC:411-412) |
Works for Russians (DVL:318) |
Works for Cardinal
Braun(DoG:28) |
| WHO DOES HE MANIPULATE? |
Bishop Aringarosa, hero and
heroine, assassin Silas |
Brother Gregory, Hero, Heroine |
Hero, heroine, U.S.
government\ |
| MAIN VICTIMS |
Hero and heroine turn to him
for help, to their disadvantage |
Hero and heroine turn to him
for help, to their disadvantage |
Hero and heroine turn to him
for help, to their disadvantage |
| KILLS THOSE CLOSE TO HIM |
Kills his right-hand man,
Remy (DVC:386), sets up death of his key assassin, Silas (DVC387,393) |
Kills his key assassin, The
Schoolmaster (DVL:7,8) |
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| MOTIVATION |
Hates Catholic Church, wants
to damage it (DVC:412) |
Hates Catholic Church
(DVL:3,4) |
Worships Catholic Church,
wants to protect it (DoG:73) |
| MOTIVATION 2 |
MOTIVATION: "Teabing has
spent his life trying to broadcast the truth about the Holy Grail."
(DVC:218) |
out for himself |
Guardian of the Secret
Messiah, must keep it a secret or destroy it. (DoG:81) |
| CONTEXT OF THE
CONFLICT |
In Da Vinci
Code, the hero and heroine seem to be caught between two opposing
camps, The Vatican and Opus Dei, who want control of the Grail
Documents. In the end, however, we find that both groups have been
manipulated by a third-party shapeshifter (Teabing) who wants the Grail
documents for his own personal motivations. |
In Da Vinci
Legacy, the hero and heroine seem to be caught between two opposing
camps, The Elect Brotherhood of St. Peter and the Bremen Legation, who
want control of the Da Vinci Documents. In the end, however, we find
that both groups have been manipulated by a third-party shapeshifter
(Kimball) who wants the Da Vinci documents for his own personal
motivations. |
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| EYES |
hazel eyes (DVC:Ch54) |
Glacial Blue eyes 37 |
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| HAIR |
bushy red hair (DVC:Ch54) |
blond hair, 6'3" (DVL:367) |
fair-haired (DoG:23) |
| HEIGHT |
tall |
6'3" (DVL:367) |
Tall (DoG:23) |