The Name of the Rose: Difference between revisions

** Averted with William, who explicitly admits to Adso that, unlike him, he has never tried "that sort of experience."

* [[Meaningful Name]]: William of Baskerville. The name is a two-part [[Shout-Out]] to logician and monk William of Ockham and [[Sherlock Holmes|a certain fictional detective.]]

* [[Medieval Morons]]: William [[Mary Sue|himself]] and the sensible [[The Watson|Adso]] make everyone else look fanatical or dumb, at least in the movie. In the novel, many people show a great deal of scholarly knowledge and expertise, but William is about the only one who can escape beyond the stagnated and fundamentalist nature of medieval learning.

* [[Mind Screw]]: How to access the secret room in the library. "The hand over the idol?/image?{{spoiler|/mirror!}} should move (how exactly?) the first and the seventh of the four(???)".

* [[Theme Serial Killer]]: The killings follow symbolism from the Book of Revelations. {{spoiler|As it turns out, this is mostly by accident.}}

* [[Tome of Eldritch Lore]]: The lost dialogue of Aristotle is assumed to be this. {{spoiler|[[Finger-Licking Poison|it's actually poisoned]]}}.

* [[The Tower]]: The hidden and locked library looms over the monastery, tall, dark, [[Living Labyrinth|labyrinthine]] and foreboding. Eco helpfully draws a diagram of it for readers.

* [[Title Drop]]: The posfacium quote.