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The Name of the Rose

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The Name of the Rose	comment	The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa) is a novel written by Umberto Eco in 1980.Set in what has been called the disastrous fourteenth century, during the period of the Medieval Inquisition. The story, described by some as Sherlock Holmes IN THE 14th CENTURY, follows Brother William of Baskerville and his young apprentice, novice Adso of Melk, who go to an abbey where a murder was committed and end up investigating it.It received a movie adaptation in 1986, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, and starring Christian Slater, F. Murray Abraham, Ron Perlman, Michael Lonsdale, and Sean Connery. It was also adapted a year later into an unlicensed video game. In 2019 it was adapted by Italian State Broadcaster Rai 1 into a TV miniseries, and broadcast on Sundance TV in the United States. It starred John Turturro, Rupert Everett, Michael Emerson, James Cosmo, Sebastian Koch and TchÃ©ky Karyo.
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The Name of the Rose / int_146f4e0	type	Blind Without 'Em
The Name of the Rose / int_146f4e0	comment	Blind Without 'Em: Downplayed. While William can see perfectly well without his spectacles, he is unable to read small text without them. This costs him precious time that results in ever more murders.
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The Name of the Rose / int_1604c69a	type	Secret Path
The Name of the Rose / int_1604c69a	comment	Secret Path: The only unguarded way into the library is various secret passages.
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The Name of the Rose / int_1649e053	type	Your Mom
The Name of the Rose / int_1649e053	comment	Your Mom: During their final argument about laughter, Jorge mentions a story about a Minorite who fell on the ice, and when someone mockingly asked him if he wanted to lie on something better, he answered: "Yes, your wife".
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The Name of the Rose / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Name of the Rose / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: The postfacium quote, the last line of the book. The movie however doesn't say it outright but implies the girl was the rose with its last line, as Old Adso muses that he never learned her name.
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The Name of the Rose / int_1c5bf1fd	type	The Tower
The Name of the Rose / int_1c5bf1fd	comment	The Tower: The hidden and locked library looms over the monastery, tall, dark, labyrinthine and foreboding. Eco helpfully draws a diagram of it for readers.
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The Name of the Rose / int_1d2400e9	type	Green-Eyed Monster
The Name of the Rose / int_1d2400e9	comment	Green-Eyed Monster: Malachi kills Severinus simply because Jorge insinuated he slept with Berengar
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The Name of the Rose / int_1d5786ff	type	Looks Like Orlok
The Name of the Rose / int_1d5786ff	comment	Looks Like Orlok: The chief librarian monk.
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The Name of the Rose / int_1d8fc71f	type	Deadly Book
The Name of the Rose / int_1d8fc71f	comment	Deadly Book: The novel revolves around a book that apparently contains Things Man Was Not Meant to Know; anybody who reads it dies horribly shortly afterward. It turns out that there's nothing mystical about the book itself, but someone has treated its pages with poison to kill off anyone who reads it and prevent its contents getting about.
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The Name of the Rose / int_1fdaf8ff	type	Ominous Latin Chanting
The Name of the Rose / int_1fdaf8ff	comment	Ominous Latin Chanting: As expected in an abbey, it happens four times a day.
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The Name of the Rose / int_204340fc	type	Vomiting Cop
The Name of the Rose / int_204340fc	comment	Vomiting Cop: Adso plays the rookie cop version, fleeing outside from the autopsy of the first murder victim.
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The Name of the Rose / int_2439b588	type	As the Good Book Says...
The Name of the Rose / int_2439b588	comment	As the Good Book Says...: Being monks, many of the characters in the book quote the Bible frequently. Adso even quotes the Song of Songs while he's having sex.
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The Name of the Rose / int_2b2c66c3	type	Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor
The Name of the Rose / int_2b2c66c3	comment	Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: This is the whole point of the novel. The murderer is philosophically opposed to laughter, believing that it causes men to stray from the path of God by diminishing and ridiculing the work of the Devil, and commits his murders to conceal the last edition of a work by Aristotle which praises the importance of laughter. Of course, the murderer believes he is doing the work of God, but note that he is the one going around murdering people in horrible ways.
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The Name of the Rose / int_2b78c29d	type	And Another Thing...
The Name of the Rose / int_2b78c29d	comment	And Another Thing...: Realising the Abbot has something on his mind, William waits till the Abbot is leaving before asking him about the freshly dug grave outside. It breaks through his reluctance enough to get him talking.
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The Name of the Rose / int_2e13acd1	type	Occam's Razor
The Name of the Rose / int_2e13acd1	comment	William's first name and political beliefs are modelled on William of Ockham.
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The Name of the Rose / int_2fcf9bbc	type	Gratuitous Foreign Language
The Name of the Rose / int_2fcf9bbc	comment	Gratuitous Foreign Language: Most of the Latin phrases are given translations in the back of the book, but the gratuitous Middle High German is not.
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The Name of the Rose / int_32821ceb	type	The Unintelligible
The Name of the Rose / int_32821ceb	comment	The Unintelligible: Salvatore talks in an idiosyncratic mix of Latin, Italian, English, French and Spanish. Even so far as the words can be understood, his ramblings don't seem to make much sense.
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The Name of the Rose / int_352def2a	type	Burn the Witch!
The Name of the Rose / int_352def2a	comment	Burn the Witch!: Brother Salvatore, Brother Remigio and a local peasant girl are caught by Father Bernardo Gui, leader of the Inquisition. Gui finds them guilty of witchcraft and has them transported away, and it is implied that they will be burned at the stake as scapegoats.
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The Name of the Rose / int_378039e	type	TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers
The Name of the Rose / int_378039e	comment	The Last Of These Is Not Like The Others Which is, however, a direct quotation of the Canticles / Song of Songs / Song of Solomon, the Sixth Chapter, the tenth verse. Here-endeth-the-Lesson.
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The Name of the Rose / int_3d5377e5	type	First-Person Peripheral Narrator
The Name of the Rose / int_3d5377e5	comment	First-Person Peripheral Narrator: The narrator is an older Adso.
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The Name of the Rose / int_3e8c87a3	type	Dated History
The Name of the Rose / int_3e8c87a3	comment	Dated History: The final sentence of the book (seen at the top of this page) is a quote from 12th century monk Bernard of Cluny. However, while a few of his manuscripts do say "rosa", based on the relative quality of the various texts the modern consensus is that Bernard actually wrote "Roma", as in the city of Rome, which got lost in transcription. Eco has since admitted he wasn't aware of this.
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The Name of the Rose / int_3eb8ba12	type	Description Porn
The Name of the Rose / int_3eb8ba12	comment	Description Porn: The book devotes page upon page to descriptions of the church's altar, the entrance to the crypt, Adso's vivid psychedelic-herb-induced visions, and the monastery's relics.
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The Name of the Rose / int_3ec18c6f	type	Sherlock Scan
The Name of the Rose / int_3ec18c6f	comment	Sherlock Scan: William of Baskerville, such as at the beginning, when he meets people from the monastery and describes to them the horse they're looking for, though he never saw it. As part of his Establishing Character Moment (and also a funny moment to boot) he tells his apprentice the exact location of the monastery's bathroom (even if he's never been there before) because he was able to glimpse one other monk racing towards it in a clear case of Potty Emergency. William also later lampshades and deconstructs this technique as being rather reliant on lucky guesses.
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The Name of the Rose / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
The Name of the Rose / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: Bernardo Gui plans to use it on the cellarer, but even the mention of torture is enough for him to admit everything, even things he didn't commit. Mostly things he didn't commit, much to William's disgust. William never used actual torture even in his career as an inquisitor, but has no problem with letting a suspect assume he is familiar with this trope if it will aid his investigation.
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The Name of the Rose / int_43eb61dc	type	Villain Teleportation
The Name of the Rose / int_43eb61dc	comment	Villain Teleportation: Jorge's ability to get in and around the library unseen. William muses that Jorge must have flown to reach the library before them, who in turn then says that he took the short route.
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The Name of the Rose / int_45007296	type	Metaphorgotten
The Name of the Rose / int_45007296	comment	Metaphorgotten: Adso asks William about some of the schisms within the faith, and William comes up with a metaphor involving a river that divides into a delta. When Adso still doesn't get it, William admits he's not really good at parables and tells him to forget the river.
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The Name of the Rose / int_460ffa29	type	Transparent Closet
The Name of the Rose / int_460ffa29	comment	Transparent Closet: The fact that Berengar is gay is pretty much common knowledge in the monastery. The other monks do not like to talk about it to each other and especially not to Adso and William. He does nevertheless seem somewhat well-integrated in the monastery and quite a few monks seem to handle his sexuality with a sort of "love-the-sinner-hate-the-sin"-mentality.
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The Name of the Rose / int_46cfd12f	type	Nothing but Skulls
The Name of the Rose / int_46cfd12f	comment	Nothing but Skulls: Someone with a weird sense of humor decided to order the bones in the crypt: in one place, there are Nothing but Skulls, in another one nothing but small bones, and in yet another one nothing but hands. This is a reference to the surprisingly real-life Capuchin Crypt.
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The Name of the Rose / int_47769748	type	WithAllDueRespect
The Name of the Rose / int_47769748	comment	With All Due Respect: Adso is respectful as befits a novice, but can't help snarking at his mentor with this trope, when pointing out that William never asks him a question to which he doesn't already know the answer.
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The Name of the Rose / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
The Name of the Rose / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: At the beginning of the novel, Adso, following medieval genre conventions, agrees not to describe the faces or general appearance of the monks in much detail - safe for William, due to the unique "singularity of his features". The book then gives you a description of William's "singular features" that is taken almost word-for-word from Holmes' description in A Study in Scarlet.
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The Name of the Rose / int_4ad7bcca	type	Recycled with a Gimmick
The Name of the Rose / int_4ad7bcca	comment	Recycled with a Gimmick: The story is basically a medieval Sherlock Holmes mystery in addition to the literary elements.
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The Name of the Rose / int_4b32995a	type	Friend-or-Idol Decision
The Name of the Rose / int_4b32995a	comment	Friend-or-Idol Decision: William has to choose between burning to death to save as many books as he can, or abandoning the library.
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The Name of the Rose / int_4d044580	type	Motive Rant
The Name of the Rose / int_4d044580	comment	Motive Rant: Jorge gives one at the end.
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The Name of the Rose / int_4de1a4f7	type	Improvised Weapon
The Name of the Rose / int_4de1a4f7	comment	Improvised Weapon: The herbalist is murdered with an astrolabe. And the book is poisoned, killing anyone who reads it without a protective glove.
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The Name of the Rose / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Name of the Rose / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Jorge is never bought to justice (and even though he does poison himself and get trapped in the fiery library, he destroys not only the Aristotle, but everything else, and he thinks he won), and the library burns down and kills what few named characters there are left. William and Adso must part, they never see each other again and William eventually dies during the great plague.
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The Name of the Rose / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
The Name of the Rose / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Benno, who lies to the protagonists multiple times, just so he can follow them and steal the manuscript. When he finally succeeds, he even engages in some gloating. Then, barely a few days later, he comes to them begging for help because he thinks the killer will target him now.
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The Name of the Rose / int_5028baf2	type	What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?
The Name of the Rose / int_5028baf2	comment	What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: In one of the very few Funny Moments in the novel, Adso, after reading some books in the library, comes to the conclusion that his love (or what he thinks is love) for the unnamed girl, is actually a disease that might kill him. Which leads to him seriously considering some fairly bizzarre suggestions - for example, one book suggests that he should pay an old village crone to insult his crush until he has stopped loving her.
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The Name of the Rose / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The Name of the Rose / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Seriously, all of this mayhem happens because some guy truly, awfully, and murderously resents the very idea that comedy is good — and thus, that priests should be allowed to make jokes. And partly because the abbot is an idiot whose priority is covering up the fact that almost half the monks in his abbey are either gay or busy sneaking village girls into the castle.
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The Name of the Rose / int_5539b84f	type	Corrupt Church
The Name of the Rose / int_5539b84f	comment	Corrupt Church: The story takes place during the papacy of John XXII, who was notorious for centralising the power and income of the papacy in himself, and the reason the murders need to be solved quickly is because of the upcoming meeting between those loyal to John, and the poor Franciscans patronised by Louis of Bavaria, who's using them as leverage against the papacy. Some Franciscans even consider John not just greedy, but an actual heretic. William quips that Jesus never laughed because he knew how Christians would behave.
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The Name of the Rose / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
The Name of the Rose / int_558f5da6	comment	Cryptic Conversation: Salvatore, Ubertino da Casale, and half the monks in the abbey.
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The Name of the Rose / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
The Name of the Rose / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: Averted for the most part. Umberto Eco went to great lengths to make sure that everything in his story could have plausibly happened in the Middle Ages. There are perhaps one or two very minor mistakes and even those are mostly the result of Historiography Marches On Emperor Louis IV, frequently mentioned as William's benefactor, was actually merely king Louis IV at the time of the story. His coronation as Roman Emperor took place in 1328, and is even referenced at the end of the story, even though by then he has already been referred to as Emperor multiple times already. While a modern reader probably wouldn't care, to the monks this may very well have mattered: The title of Holy Roman Emperor was, at least in theory, considered equal to the Papal one, including in some matters of the church; and it is unlikely that his enemies would cede this amount of religious and worldly authority to him. Modern historians usually consider Bernard Gui to be a more multi-faceted figure than the image that people had of him back in 1980.
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The Name of the Rose / int_58bf7895	type	Eat the Evidence
The Name of the Rose / int_58bf7895	comment	Eat the Evidence: Which in this case also qualifies as suicide.
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The Name of the Rose / int_5c3206a	type	Ransacked Room
The Name of the Rose / int_5c3206a	comment	Ransacked Room: The herbalist discovers the book and goes to tell William of Baskerville, who tells him to lock himself in his room and let no-one in until he arrives (William is held up by the theological debate). On returning to his apothecary, he shocked to find the place ransacked. He bolts the door and quickly goes to check the book is still there. It is lying on the floor under a table. The herbalist is relieved ... until he sees a hooded figure step out from behind a curtain and walk toward him ...
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The Name of the Rose / int_5d86966a	type	Man on Fire
The Name of the Rose / int_5d86966a	comment	Man on Fire: To ensure the book's destruction, the killer holds it over the flames, but his robe catches fire as well.
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The Name of the Rose / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
The Name of the Rose / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: In-Universe, Adso mentions his love of The Long List (and it shows throughout the book).
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The Name of the Rose / int_67d947a3	type	Nubile Savage
The Name of the Rose / int_67d947a3	comment	Nubile Savage: The peasant girl is a medieval variation on the theme.
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The Name of the Rose / int_688238d6	type	Wimp Fight
The Name of the Rose / int_688238d6	comment	Wimp Fight: Subverted: William and Jorge are both senescent intellectuals. They know absolutely nothing about fighting... but will do absolutely anything to win.
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The Name of the Rose / int_6a3c49f	type	Direct Line to the Author
The Name of the Rose / int_6a3c49f	comment	Direct Line to the Author: The novel is ostensibly Eco's translation of Adso's account. In a prologue, Eco describes how he "found" Adso's manuscript in Prague in 1968, shortly before fleeing due to certain events (the invasion of Czechoslovakia).
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The Name of the Rose / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
The Name of the Rose / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: The abbey is hosting a council made up of various factions of the Dominican and Franciscan Orders to debate the burning issue: "Did Jesus and his disciples own anything, either individually or in common?" They are really discussing the church's approach to poverty and wealth, and the debate is therefore highly political and momentous, as the Franciscan's assertion of Christ's poverty undermines the Pope's authority to increase his wealth. It was indeed serious business that led to an Antipope and nearly a civil war within the church. Other monks spend a great deal of time arguing over the question of Did Jesus ever laugh? It's actually this question, not the other one, that is the root cause of all the murders. William mentions the story of two rhetoricians, Gabundus and Terentius who argued over fifteen days and fifteen nights on the vocative of "ego", and finally attacked each other with weapons.
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The Name of the Rose / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Name of the Rose / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: William of Baskerville. The name is a two-part Shout-Out to logician and friar William of Ockham and a certain fictional detective. Adso is thus a nod to Watson, which is more clearly indicated by the spelling "Adson" (in a different language) from the fictional document's elaborate backstory. In Latin, the verb adsum means "to be present", fitting for the witness and narrator of the events. The blind monk Jorge of Burgos is a shoutout to the (blind) Jorge Luis Borges, an important literary influence for Eco, who once wrote of a labyrinthine library containing all knowledge.
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The Name of the Rose / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
The Name of the Rose / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: The abbot's name is Abo.
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The Name of the Rose / int_6f214508	type	Foreign Culture Fetish
The Name of the Rose / int_6f214508	comment	Foreign Culture Fetish: Jorge portrays ancient philosophy as something like this - a foreign influence that threatens to disrupt the purity of European Christianity. The fact that the pagan Aristotle in particular was so successful in shaping medieval culture and theology is why Jorge is so determined to hide the manuscript - he is afraid that its discovery might create a society, in which irreverence and disrespect are treated as virtues
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The Name of the Rose / int_722b3319	type	Camp Gay
The Name of the Rose / int_722b3319	comment	Camp Gay: Brother Berengar. And, according to some dubious sources, the dead monk, Adelmo. He was described as having the "eyes of a maiden seeking commerce with an incubus." Yeah, a monk said that.
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The Name of the Rose / int_72cdfc33	type	Big Bad Ensemble
The Name of the Rose / int_72cdfc33	comment	Big Bad Ensemble: The Serial Killer Jorge who causes the whole book's manhunt and the sinister Inquisitor Bernando Gui who doesn't really contribute anything to the manhunt other than providing scapegoats and unlike the killer he murders in official and socially acceptable ways, so he doesn't need to hide both in-universe and as far as spoilers are concerned.
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The Name of the Rose / int_72e0023f	type	Invoked Trope
The Name of the Rose / int_72e0023f	comment	Invoked by the subtitle to the chapter where the villain explains his plan:
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The Name of the Rose / int_73733868	type	Awesomeness by Analysis
The Name of the Rose / int_73733868	comment	Awesomeness by Analysis: William, who's applying the philosophy at one of the earliest stages of its development. He's a student of Roger Bacon and William of Ockham, effectively the Trope Codifiers of the "analysis" part.
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The Name of the Rose / int_737a65f4	type	The Watson
The Name of the Rose / int_737a65f4	comment	On the one hand, most of the monks (beside William and Adso, who is actively being trained in logic during the story), are mostly either fanatical or stupid. Even some of the more knowledgeable ones only seem to know facts and avoid really using them. William himself resists using deduction on the natural world because asserting that creation is constrained by rules would imply that God is as well. There is also an overarching preoccupation with authority—why bother thinking if your priest or the pope has already told you what's what? Intellectual arguments, even those delivered by William (although he may just be meeting his opponents at their level) are almost purely half-baked appeals to authority, with monks naming a revered philosopher, summarizing one of his arguments, and leaving it at that. No actual analysis or engaging with the merits—monks simply throw opposing quotes past each other until they need to move on to another topic.
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The Name of the Rose / int_74ee1c2d	type	Out-of-Genre Experience
The Name of the Rose / int_74ee1c2d	comment	Out-of-Genre Experience: In-genre for the book, but the film pauses the action for a theological debate between the Franciscans and the Vatican emissaries over the question of whether Jesus owned the clothes that he wore.
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The Name of the Rose / int_763d015b	type	The Late Middle Ages
The Name of the Rose / int_763d015b	comment	The Late Middle Ages: Set in 1327. The Hundred Years War is about to kick off between England and France, the conflict between Holy Roman Emperor Louis the Bavarian and Pope John XXII is nearly plunging the church into civil war, apocalyptic millenarianist movements are springing up everywhere, Europe is caught intellectually between old certainty and new learning and The Black Death is just around the corner. It is not a nice time to be alive.
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The Name of the Rose / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
The Name of the Rose / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: The body count grows by the day ... and then the whole setting burns to the ground.
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The Name of the Rose / int_7b80226d	type	GoodCounterpart
The Name of the Rose / int_7b80226d	comment	Good Counterpart: Ubertino is arguably this to Jorge. They both reject scholasticism, any sort of heresy and are convinced of milleniarist thought. They also are both friendly to Adso, and critical of William. But while Ubertino's criticism comes across as fairly benevolent, and his relationship to William is a good one; Jorge is much more harsh and malevolent to anyone that does not fit his very narrow idea of what Christianity should be.
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The Name of the Rose / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
The Name of the Rose / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: William gives one to Jorge of Burgos at the end.
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The Name of the Rose / int_7ef7e1cd	type	Every Man Has His Price
The Name of the Rose / int_7ef7e1cd	comment	Every Man Has His Price: Benno of Uppsala is eager to help William with his investigation ... until Malachi makes him the new assistant librarian. His ambition fulfilled, he refuses to help any further- till he figures out that, with the murderer going after everyone interested in the mysterious book, he is probably on the top of the hit-list.
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The Name of the Rose / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
The Name of the Rose / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: If William hadn't deduced that Jorge was the killer, then sure, Aristotle's book on comedy might have stayed hidden, but on the plus side the entire library and every manuscript in it wouldn't have burned down.
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The Name of the Rose / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The Name of the Rose / int_815556aa	comment	Tome of Eldritch Lore: The book is assumed to be this. It's actually poisoned.
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The Name of the Rose / int_835d1cd2	type	Satellite Love Interest
The Name of the Rose / int_835d1cd2	comment	Satellite Love Interest: Taken to an almost comical extreme with the girl. She has no name, no dialogue, and virtually no characterisation beyond throwing herself at Adso - she is regularly smuggled into the Abbey by various monks, particularly the cellared, who give her food for sex. Salvatore, who has known famine and has no real grasp of doctrine, sees nothing particularly wrong in this.
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The Name of the Rose / int_83ab1b39	type	The Tragic Rose
The Name of the Rose / int_83ab1b39	comment	Tragedy: The library burns down in the end.
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The Name of the Rose / int_8c114591	type	Red-Flag Recreation Material
The Name of the Rose / int_8c114591	comment	Red-Flag Recreation Material: Though Jorge of Burgos cannot read for himself (being blind), he expresses a great admiration for texts concerning the apocalypse, rhapsodizing about one to Adso in their first conversation - firmly identifying him as easily the most extreme of all the monks at the abbey. He's actually responsible for the deaths around the abbey, having driven Adelmo to suicide out of homophobia and poisoned the book of Poetics in order to prevent mankind from accepting laughter as permissible.
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The Name of the Rose / int_8ca9bf12	type	Sex Equals Love
The Name of the Rose / int_8ca9bf12	comment	Sex Equals Love: Adso is convinced he's fallen in love with the girl after their sexual encounter. Justified as he's a virgin in a religious order that discourages any interaction with women, and the experience is so intense for him.
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The Name of the Rose / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
The Name of the Rose / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: The third day. Adso finally learns something about Fra Dolcino! Also he gains "carnal knowledge" of some random young lady! And, by the way, Berengar dies. Invoked by the subtitle to the chapter where the villain explains his plan:
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The Name of the Rose / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
The Name of the Rose / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Jorge murders several monks and ends up burning the last surviving copy of Aristotleâ€™s second book on comedy, (as well as unintentionally causing a huge fire that consumes the entire abbey and all itâ€™s books) however his robes end up catching on fire and he is burnt to death.
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The Name of the Rose / int_92a61707	type	The Speechless
The Name of the Rose / int_92a61707	comment	The Speechless: The girl - she technically does speak, but since Adso can't understand the language she's speaking in so he never manages to record what she says.
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The Name of the Rose / int_9578bb87	type	Canis Latinicus
The Name of the Rose / int_9578bb87	comment	William has one considering the secret of the library. Adso remembers how Salvatore said "tertius equi", which is Canis Latinicus for "The third of horse" (when he meant "the third horse"). William concludes: "the first and the seventh of the four" really means "the first and the seventh of the word four", and "four" is "quatuor" in Latin, so you have to push the letters Q and R.
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The Name of the Rose / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
The Name of the Rose / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: Adso never learns the girl's name.
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The Name of the Rose / int_974d246c	type	Be as Unhelpful as Possible
The Name of the Rose / int_974d246c	comment	Be as Unhelpful as Possible: This is the attitude of every monk in the abbey toward William's investigation. The only exceptions to this are Severinus and Nicolas
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The Name of the Rose / int_9819d15b	type	PriestKing
The Name of the Rose / int_9819d15b	comment	Emperor Louis IV, frequently mentioned as William's benefactor, was actually merely king Louis IV at the time of the story. His coronation as Roman Emperor took place in 1328, and is even referenced at the end of the story, even though by then he has already been referred to as Emperor multiple times already. While a modern reader probably wouldn't care, to the monks this may very well have mattered: The title of Holy Roman Emperor was, at least in theory, considered equal to the Papal one, including in some matters of the church; and it is unlikely that his enemies would cede this amount of religious and worldly authority to him.
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The Name of the Rose / int_9a888d97	type	Finger-Licking Poison
The Name of the Rose / int_9a888d97	comment	Finger-Licking Poison: The page corners of the book have been coated in arsenic, so anyone turning the pages (often licking their finger to help them) will be poisoned.
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The Name of the Rose / int_9dd2cbc2	type	CloudCuckooLander
The Name of the Rose / int_9dd2cbc2	comment	Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Several, notably the eccentric Ubertino da Casale, and the deformed Salvatore.
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The Name of the Rose / int_9df1477	type	The Exotic Detective
The Name of the Rose / int_9df1477	comment	The Exotic Detective: A medieval friar, who used to be an inquisitor. Also, William is English, while the others are mostly Italians and Germans.
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The Name of the Rose / int_9f4bec33	type	Destroy the Evidence
The Name of the Rose / int_9f4bec33	comment	Destroy the Evidence: William brings all the evidence he's discovered so far to the Abbot, including a note found by one of the victims revealing the location of the forbidden book. The Abbot informs him the Inquisition is already on the way, then burns the note. Fortunately William was Genre Savvy enough to make a copy.
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The Name of the Rose / int_a435b45e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Name of the Rose / int_a435b45e	comment	Bitter Sweet Ending: While William does manage to figure out that Jorge was the killer, the latter succeeds in destroying the last copy of Aristotleâ€™s second book on comedy and dies before he can face any trial and while some corrupt members of the church do end up dying, most of the knowledge within the abbey except a handful of books William was able to save is lost when the entire building is consumed in a fire. William himself is left with his faith in his reason shaken. While he did manage to spot relevant clues and his deduction led him to the killer and the reason for the killings, he notes this was the result of fortunate coincidence. He spotted clues, but his reasoning for their meaning was incorrect.
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The Name of the Rose / int_a5d92fce	type	Celibate Hero
The Name of the Rose / int_a5d92fce	comment	Celibate Hero: As a Franciscan friar, William is sworn to celibacy. Adso is supposed to be this. He fails, once in his life.
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The Name of the Rose / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
The Name of the Rose / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: A killer rather hypocritically gives the last rites to the herbalist in the movie.
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The Name of the Rose / int_a808063f	type	Black-and-White Insanity
The Name of the Rose / int_a808063f	comment	Black-and-White Insanity: A caliph is mentioned as having ordered a library burned because either they said what was in the Quran and therefore redundant, or did not say what was in the Quran and thus heretical. note This is in reference to the story of how Caliph Omar burned the Library of Alexandria. It's now known to be incorrect (for one, the Library of Alexandria had ceased to exist centuries before he was born), but William mentioning it is historically accurate, as the story was first recorded by Christian historians in the 13th century.
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The Name of the Rose / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
The Name of the Rose / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: Religious wars declared over whether the clergy should be poor, homosexual acts being a crime punishable by death, treating other religions (and different subsets of the same religion) with unmasked contempt, women and effeminate men being treated as intrinsically evil ... Welcome to medieval Europe.
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The Name of the Rose / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Name of the Rose / int_ad1db87c	comment	William has one too late after the murder of Severinus the herbalist. They search for the book among the ruins of Severinus's shelves, and William crossly mocks Adso for asking if a book clearly written in Arabic was the Greek volume they're looking for. It's only as they reach the church later that William realises that you can bind two languages in the same book, and Severinus couldn't read Arabic! Unfortunately, Benno has the book, because, being obsessed with books, he realised it before them.
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The Name of the Rose / int_ad9fbc1e	type	Pyrrhic Victory
The Name of the Rose / int_ad9fbc1e	comment	Pyrrhic Victory: The library burns and the book is destroyed, and Jorge basically gets away with it, convinced he's won. Bernard Gui gets away with the torture and execution of three people, at least one of whom was absolutely innocent. History buffs and bibliophiles familiar with the period will consider the burning of the library to be an outright Downer Ending (Eco himself pointed out in the Apostilles to The Name of the Rose (essentially a director's track book) that having a library in that period and not having it burn down would have been absolutely unrealistic.)
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The Name of the Rose / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Name of the Rose / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: William of Baskerville is not without his sarcastic side. Adso attributes this to the fact that he's British, but it's also in large part because he's a Franciscan friar who, having sworn a vow to poverty, has found himself in a Benedictine monastery where the abbot is constantly showing off the place's many luxuries.
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The Name of the Rose / int_b0ae741	type	The Black Death
The Name of the Rose / int_b0ae741	comment	The Black Death: At the end of the novel, Adso reveals that William eventually died during the Black Death.
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The Name of the Rose / int_b4fddee	type	McGuffin
The Name of the Rose / int_b4fddee	comment	McGuffin: What would drive monks to commit murder? A book, of course. The book is possibly the only copy in the world of the second book of Aristotle's Poetics, the treatise on comedy.
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The Name of the Rose / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The Name of the Rose / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Jorge Luis Borges. While it's obvious Eco has a lot of respect for him as a writer, the historical Borges's support of right-wing dictators like Augusto Pinochet later in his life makes its way into the character Jorge of Burgos being a fierce authoritarian and reactionary, in keeping with the "Years of Lead" subtext of the novel.
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The Name of the Rose / int_b5f97c12	type	Cover Innocent Eyes and Ears
The Name of the Rose / int_b5f97c12	comment	Cover Innocent Eyes and Ears: When Bernado Gui catches the peasant girl inside the monastery, he rips open her clothes to expose her breasts, causing the monks to avert their gaze in horror or cover their eyes.
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The Name of the Rose / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
The Name of the Rose / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Malachi is in love with Berengar, who is in love with Adelmo. Whether either is really reciprocrated is never fully explained
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The Name of the Rose / int_babc974	type	Sadistic Choice
The Name of the Rose / int_babc974	comment	Sadistic Choice: Gui insists William, a former victim, serve as a judge in the Inquisition - William is a former inquisitor, who wants nothing more to do with it. Note that this is Hollywood History, as the real inquisitors rarely prosecuted any suspected witches, and most actively disbelieved in witchcraft.
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The Name of the Rose / int_bbfaa837	type	Knight Templar
The Name of the Rose / int_bbfaa837	comment	Knight Templar: A whole army of them: the killer, the Dulcinians, the Inquisitors ... Although don't actually go calling them Knights Templar, because you'd be calling them heretics.
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The Name of the Rose / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
The Name of the Rose / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: How to access the secret room in the library. "The hand over the idol?/image?/mirror! should move (how exactly?) the first and the seventh of the four(???)".
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The Name of the Rose / int_bf110089	type	Break Them by Talking
The Name of the Rose / int_bf110089	comment	Break Them by Talking: Near the ending, Abo delivers a sermon on the the holy authority symbolized by the abbey's hoard of gold and gems, delivered with such skill that Adso is hypnotized and nearly swears to secrecy regarding the murder case.
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The Name of the Rose / int_bf3e372	type	Torture Is Ineffective
The Name of the Rose / int_bf3e372	comment	Torture Is Ineffective: Discussed by William who used to be an inquisitor, but avoided using torture. He explains that people under torture say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what they imagine might please him. Later, when Bernardo Gui interrogates the cellarer, the threat of torture is enough for him to admit that he committed all the murders (which he didn't do).
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The Name of the Rose / int_c0afd51a	type	Evil Cripple
The Name of the Rose / int_c0afd51a	comment	Evil Cripple: The murderer is the blind monk Jorge, and the deformed Salvatore is pretty nasty in his own way, though nowhere close to Jorge.
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The Name of the Rose / int_c39846a3	type	Pride
The Name of the Rose / int_c39846a3	comment	Pride: William's fellow monks regard this as his Fatal Flaw when he persists with his investigation when it would be wiser to keep a low profile. William's careless decision to reveal he outsmarted Jorge and wasnâ€™t poisoned the books pages because he is wearing gloves while it was still within reach of the older monk ends up causing the book to be snatched and destroyed, along with every other manuscript in the abbey.
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The Name of the Rose / int_c5c0e2b4	type	Appeal to Authority
The Name of the Rose / int_c5c0e2b4	comment	On the other hand, while Appeal to Authority is a very common thing among the monks, they very clearly do have reasons of their own for why they position themselves either in favour of one or another theory. Unlike many other depictions of medieval Christianity, the monks in the monastery are fairly diverse when it comes to their theological standpoints and are more than willing to discuss. There are different opinions on apostolic poverty, heresy, the nature of evil or Aristotelian ethics that cannot clearly be unified in one single dogma. Not all of the authorities quoted are ancient, as some of them like Roger Bacon or William of Ockham would have been contemporaries of Adso, and others would have been fairly recent, like Aquinas. After all, this is what a lot of medieval philosophy actually was: Figures like Aquinas or Al-Ghazali founded entire schools of philosophy simply by creating annotations and reinterpretations of much older philosophers like Aristotle.
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The Name of the Rose / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Name of the Rose / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Probably a tenth of the book is either quotations or references to actual antiquary or medieval texts. Whole guidebooks have been devoted to illuminating every single reference Eco makes. Aristotle's thought is central to the plot, just as it was in medieval scholasticism. Not only that, the plot functions much like an Aristotlean tragedy. The hero, William, is so determined to uncover the truth, and the villain, Jorge, is so devoted to piety — both normally worthwhile virtues — that they end up destroying the monastery and all its books, accomplishing nothing. Eco even comments on this in the chapter header where the library burns down, saying it's caused by an "excess of virtue". The movie mentions a book by Umberto of Bologna - a clear allusion to Umberto Eco. The gruesome ossarium is based on the real-life Capuchin Crypt. Further, the name "Baskerville" is an obvious allusion to the Sherlock Holmes novel The Hound of the Baskervilles. Adso's name sounds very similar to Watson's, and Adso's description of William of Baskerville in the "Prologue" is taken almost word-for-word from Watson's first description of Holmes in A Study in Scarlet. William's first name and political beliefs are modelled on William of Ockham. Jorge of Burgos, the blind librarian, is a clear reference to Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentinian author who went blind, served as the director of Argentina's National Library, wrote a story about a labyrinthine library, and is generally credited as a stylistic influence on Eco and probably hundreds of other genre-bending postmodernist authors. He was also believed to have fascist sympathies, making the connection even more apt. At the end of the book William quotes to Adso a phrase from "a mystic from your land", "Er muoz gelÃ®chesame die leiter abewerfen, sÃ´ er an ir ufgestigen". That's a medievalized version of a quote from the 20th century Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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The Name of the Rose / int_c83f40d8	type	Bystander Syndrome
The Name of the Rose / int_c83f40d8	comment	Bystander Syndrome: Another monk is murdered after Bernard Gui tortures a false confession out of Remigio. He declares that it's not his job to keep order in the monastery and he already did what he was there to do.
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The Name of the Rose / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
The Name of the Rose / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: The girl Adso has sex with. He mentions that he couldn't even "lament and call out the belovedâ€™s name" (as he read in romances of chivalry) when he learned that she's going to die, because he never learned her name.
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The Name of the Rose / int_cbed4c8e	type	Historical Detective Fiction
The Name of the Rose / int_cbed4c8e	comment	Historical Detective Fiction: Investigating suspicious deaths in a monastery.
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The Name of the Rose / int_cd1731d7	type	German Humour
The Name of the Rose / int_cd1731d7	comment	German Humour: Very subtle, but there; Adso, an Austrian, frequently confesses how bewildered he is by William's (British) sense of humour, since William tends to say things he means to be jokes in a very deadpan fashion while saying things he means to be serious as if they were jokes.
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The Name of the Rose / int_cfbd1467	type	Never Suicide
The Name of the Rose / int_cfbd1467	comment	Never Suicide: The very first death is Adelmo, who threw himself out of a window he couldn't have reached, then closed it behind him. It turns out this one really was suicide. He threw himself off the wall, and a landslide moved him under the window.
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The Name of the Rose / int_d0c563ad	type	Religion Is Wrong
The Name of the Rose / int_d0c563ad	comment	Religion Is Wrong: There are shades of this, especially in Jorge de Burgosâ€™ justification for murdering the other monks and hiding the last copy of Aristotle's Book on Comedy because he believes laughter and knowledge would undermine the churches power over people. The death of the corrupt and sadistic Gui at the hand of the peasants is also seen as a victory.
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The Name of the Rose / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
The Name of the Rose / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: William has one too late after the murder of Severinus the herbalist. They search for the book among the ruins of Severinus's shelves, and William crossly mocks Adso for asking if a book clearly written in Arabic was the Greek volume they're looking for. It's only as they reach the church later that William realises that you can bind two languages in the same book, and Severinus couldn't read Arabic! Unfortunately, Benno has the book, because, being obsessed with books, he realised it before them. William has one considering the secret of the library. Adso remembers how Salvatore said "tertius equi", which is Canis Latinicus for "The third of horse" (when he meant "the third horse"). William concludes: "the first and the seventh of the four" really means "the first and the seventh of the word four", and "four" is "quatuor" in Latin, so you have to push the letters Q and R. They had a minor one earlier, when Adso dreamed a story similar to the "Coena Cypriani", a kind of Bible parody, which helps William to remember that there was a book in the library consisting of four texts, one of them a comment for the Coena Cypriani, another one the book they're looking for.
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The Name of the Rose / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
The Name of the Rose / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: It's a medieval abbey with a veritable Gambit Pileup in action. Of course almost every character fits the bill. One example would be Ubertino who decries the baseness of Berengar and Adelmo and their lusts while caressing the teenaged narrator Adso. Jorge de Burgos murders several monks (murder being expressly against one of the Ten Commandments â€” Though shalt not kill) for reading a book on comedy, because he believes humor undermines faith in god and the churches power over people.
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The Name of the Rose / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
The Name of the Rose / int_d57f4a99	comment	The Nothing After Death: How Adso imagines the afterlife:
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The Name of the Rose / int_d62184c3	type	Theme Serial Killer
The Name of the Rose / int_d62184c3	comment	Theme Serial Killer: The killings follow symbolism from the Book of Revelation. Then it turns out this is mostly by accident. Some of the killings weren't even murder.
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The Name of the Rose / int_d9723630	type	In My Language, That Sounds Like...
The Name of the Rose / int_d9723630	comment	In My Language, That Sounds Like...: Adso recounts explaining to a German noble that Italians go through the forest with pigs looking for "tartufo" (truffles), which they dig up and eat. The German heard the keyword as "der Teufel" (the Devil) and gave Adso a very strange look after crossing himself. They both had a good laugh about it afterwards.
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The Name of the Rose / int_da1211b4	type	Security Cling
The Name of the Rose / int_da1211b4	comment	Security Cling: Adso sees his own reflection in a mirror and runs into William's arms.
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The Name of the Rose / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
The Name of the Rose / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: The connection between the various deaths and the seven trumpets of the book of Revelation turns out to be a coincidence after all. When this theory is discussed openly, the killer decides to run with it, which complicates things further. He notes that even though it was never deliberate, somehow the murders really did follow the pattern, as if by chance. He just takes it as another sign that the End of Time is imminent.
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The Name of the Rose / int_dcaa8b35	type	Locked Room Mystery
The Name of the Rose / int_dcaa8b35	comment	Locked Room Mystery: The first death involves a defenestration beneath a window that cannot be opened. William easily proves the man jumped from a nearby tower and his body rolled to its final resting place.
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The Name of the Rose / int_dcb40127	type	The Killer Was Left-Handed
The Name of the Rose / int_dcb40127	comment	The Killer Was Left-Handed: Although not the killer, Berengar is shown to have written a note because he's the only left-handed monk.
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The Name of the Rose / int_dce448d	type	Reduced to Ratburgers
The Name of the Rose / int_dce448d	comment	Reduced to Ratburgers: Salvatore, though he quite enjoys them. He catches them in the graveyard, which means they've been feeding on corpsesinvoked.
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The Name of the Rose / int_dd7cfe55	type	Apophenia Plot
The Name of the Rose / int_dd7cfe55	comment	Apophenia Plot: The murders taking place across the abbey are believed to be Signs of the End Times, as each death seemingly corresponds to one of the Seven Trumpets in the Book of Revelation: Adelmo fell from a tower in a hailstorm, Venantius is apparently drowned in a vat of blood, Berengar drowns in his bath, Severinus is brained to death with an armillary sphere, and a dying Malachi even mentions something that had "the power of a thousand scorpions." The more rational William of Baskerville suspects that a Theme Serial Killer is at work. However, in the finale, he realizes that most of the deaths invoked Revelation purely by coincidence, and curses himself for being so easily mislead by nonexistent patterns. In order of appearance: Adelmo committed suicide, Severinus was beaten to death with the sphere by Malachi because it was the first thing within arm's reach, and Venantius, Berengar and Malachi all unwittingly poisoned themselves by reading the MacGuffin, a treasured book that the Big Bad had laced with poison in order to keep its secrets safe. The Big Bad told Malachi that the book has the power of a thousand scorpions because he came to believe that the signs were not incidental but part of a divine plan after hearing about William's theory.
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The Name of the Rose / int_dfc3e10a	type	The Dung Ages
The Name of the Rose / int_dfc3e10a	comment	The Dung Ages: This is how the monastery is portrayed; moreso the hovel outside its walls, where the peasant girl lives.
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The Name of the Rose / int_e16217f8	type	Historical Villain Upgrade
The Name of the Rose / int_e16217f8	comment	Historical Villain Upgrade: While he might not have been a nice guy, Bernardo Gui was much less melodramatic in Real Life.
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The Name of the Rose / int_e16cedc6	type	TheLongList
The Name of the Rose / int_e16cedc6	comment	The Long List: Adso loves narrating overly long lists. For an extreme example, on the first day he names 53 different animals carved into the relief on the church doors. On the third day, he names even more different types of undesirables and criminals as he imagines Salvatore's sordid past. Adso's prophetic dream later in the week also amounts to an entire chapter of him listing every notable character in the bible doing something absurd.
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The Name of the Rose / int_e34400ab	type	Ambiguously Gay
The Name of the Rose / int_e34400ab	comment	Ambiguously Gay: Adelmo. What is known for sure is that he had sex with Berengar, but it remains ambiguous whether he actually wanted to, or whether he wanted to read the manuscript that badly. Ubertino seems to think this at least.
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The Name of the Rose / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Name of the Rose / int_e482cfa7	comment	To the Pain: Bernardo Gui does the "showing the instruments" version in the movie to Salvatore, who shows clear signs of having been tortured when confessing the next day.
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The Name of the Rose / int_e5421161	type	Expy
The Name of the Rose / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: William to both Sherlock Holmes and William of Occam. Adso to Dr Watson.
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The Name of the Rose / int_e5467735	type	Expy Coexistence
The Name of the Rose / int_e5467735	comment	Expy Coexistence: Does William of Occam exist in this version of history? Yes, he's a friend of William of Baskerville. The Celebrity Paradox is thus Averted.
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The Name of the Rose / int_e905c892	type	The Heretic
The Name of the Rose / int_e905c892	comment	The Heretic: The events takes place during a period in Church history where heresy was being seen everywhere. The Franciscans even believe the Pope is a heretic at this time!
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The Name of the Rose / int_e949dfd8	type	Something about a Rose
The Name of the Rose / int_e949dfd8	comment	Something about a Rose: Played With - The book looks at multiple meanings of the rose. Love / Marriage: The monks are expected to remain celibate. 'Expected' being the key word. The one truly innocent person in the Abby is the peasant girl who Adso comes to love and he never even learns her name. Secrets: The novel is about a secret book and the lengths to which a deranged man will go to keep it hidden. Politics: The rose is a symbol of left-wing thought (in particular Socialism) in Europe. William and the Franciscans are opposed to the church owning property, are concerned with improving the living conditions of their servants, believe that useful knowledge can come from the peasants and the townspeople, and have more progressive attitudes towards people accused of heresy or witchcraft. Tragedy: The library burns down in the end. Ephemerality: Books degrade over time, and need to be protected. Meaning: Probably the most important meaning of the rose motif - William speaks about how all books are references to pre-existing books. And as Eco points out, the rose has so many meanings that it is impossible to associate it with any particular one. This is one of the key ideas in Semiotics of which Eco was a world renown scholar.
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The Name of the Rose / int_e9e28bd7	type	Sexy Priest
The Name of the Rose / int_e9e28bd7	comment	Sexy Priest: The girl throws herself at Adso muttering a language he only partly understands, but the gist is "You are young, and handsome" (given that she had to sleep with two remarkably old and/or ugly monks for sustenance). Adso also mentions receiving love letters from an older monk.
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The Name of the Rose / int_ea0d06f0	type	Bookcase Passage
The Name of the Rose / int_ea0d06f0	comment	Bookcase Passage: William and Adso look for one into Finis Africae and eventually find it, albeit hidden behind a mirror rather than a bookcase.
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The Name of the Rose / int_eb8856	type	The X of Y
The Name of the Rose / int_eb8856	comment	The X of Y
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The Name of the Rose / int_ec3ff1f7	type	In Which a Trope Is Described
The Name of the Rose / int_ec3ff1f7	comment	Aristotle's thought is central to the plot, just as it was in medieval scholasticism. Not only that, the plot functions much like an Aristotlean tragedy. The hero, William, is so determined to uncover the truth, and the villain, Jorge, is so devoted to piety — both normally worthwhile virtues — that they end up destroying the monastery and all its books, accomplishing nothing. Eco even comments on this in the chapter header where the library burns down, saying it's caused by an "excess of virtue".
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The Name of the Rose / int_ed3a5a30	type	Big Labyrinthine Building
The Name of the Rose / int_ed3a5a30	comment	Big Labyrinthine Building: The Library, to confuse those who shouldn't be there. As well as being a labyrinth, it has a mysterious organising system and some traps, to confuse those who shouldn't be there.
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The Name of the Rose / int_ed54283	type	Single Mom Stripper
The Name of the Rose / int_ed54283	comment	Single Mom Stripper: The girl is probably a medieval version.
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The Name of the Rose / int_eff83d77	type	Mundane Utility
The Name of the Rose / int_eff83d77	comment	Mundane Utility: William using his Sherlock Scan to tell Adso where the toilet is located.
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The Name of the Rose / int_f492089e	type	Quote-to-Quote Combat
The Name of the Rose / int_f492089e	comment	Quote-to-Quote Combat: All the debates in the book can be boiled down to this. This may be a symptom of Medieval Morons, as these bald appeals to authority substitute for actually arguing about the validity of the quote or critical thinking in general.
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The Name of the Rose / int_f5638f26	type	DefinitelyFinalDungeon
The Name of the Rose / int_f5638f26	comment	Definitely Final Dungeon: Once William and Adso head for the library tower knowing the murderer is in the Finis Africae, you know they won't come out again until everything's resolved.
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The Name of the Rose / int_f58d1622	type	Medieval Morons
The Name of the Rose / int_f58d1622	comment	Medieval Morons: Zig-Zagged: On the one hand, most of the monks (beside William and Adso, who is actively being trained in logic during the story), are mostly either fanatical or stupid. Even some of the more knowledgeable ones only seem to know facts and avoid really using them. William himself resists using deduction on the natural world because asserting that creation is constrained by rules would imply that God is as well. There is also an overarching preoccupation with authority—why bother thinking if your priest or the pope has already told you what's what? Intellectual arguments, even those delivered by William (although he may just be meeting his opponents at their level) are almost purely half-baked appeals to authority, with monks naming a revered philosopher, summarizing one of his arguments, and leaving it at that. No actual analysis or engaging with the merits—monks simply throw opposing quotes past each other until they need to move on to another topic. On the other hand, while Appeal to Authority is a very common thing among the monks, they very clearly do have reasons of their own for why they position themselves either in favour of one or another theory. Unlike many other depictions of medieval Christianity, the monks in the monastery are fairly diverse when it comes to their theological standpoints and are more than willing to discuss. There are different opinions on apostolic poverty, heresy, the nature of evil or Aristotelian ethics that cannot clearly be unified in one single dogma. Not all of the authorities quoted are ancient, as some of them like Roger Bacon or William of Ockham would have been contemporaries of Adso, and others would have been fairly recent, like Aquinas. After all, this is what a lot of medieval philosophy actually was: Figures like Aquinas or Al-Ghazali founded entire schools of philosophy simply by creating annotations and reinterpretations of much older philosophers like Aristotle. It is also worth mentioning that Umberto Eco seemlessly manages to incorporate modern philosophy into the book by disguising at something his monks would say.
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The Name of the Rose / int_f76842b1	type	The Fundamentalist
The Name of the Rose / int_f76842b1	comment	The Fundamentalist: Out of all the monks, Jorge of Burgos is the one who seems most committed to the teachings of Christianity ... to a very unsettling degree. The others seem more interested in accumulating wealth, accumulating power and influence, or satisfying their own lusts (base or otherwise). Even William of Baskerville tends to approach his faith from a more Gnostic and rationalist perspective.
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The Name of the Rose / int_f96f8980	type	Love Makes You Crazy
The Name of the Rose / int_f96f8980	comment	Love Makes You Crazy: Adso reads a book where love is described as a disease similar to lycanthropy. The book certainly gives him pause, given that he's convinced he's fallen in love with a local girl.
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The Name of the Rose / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
The Name of the Rose / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: Jorge wants to keep hidden the last copy of the "Comedy" volume of Aristotle's Poetics, because he feels that it will teach men to approach all matters with laughter and kill fear of the devil and thus, in his mind at least, render men irreligious.
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The Name of the Rose / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
The Name of the Rose / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: In what seems to be another example of Shown Their Work, William discusses an Arabic treatise on hydrophobia (rabies) in dogs in passing. It comes up again during the trial of the cellarer when William claims this is what he was discussing with a murdered monk, going into great detail about how the text describes the twenty-five symptoms of hydrophobia, with which Bernardo Gui is surely familiar. This swipe is a pun on Gui's order, the Dominicans- "domine canes", God's dogs.
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The Name of the Rose / int_fe64d5a1	type	Evil Is Petty
The Name of the Rose / int_fe64d5a1	comment	Evil is Petty: Turns out that the reason Jorge murdered the other monks is because he will go to any extremes to prevent anyone or anything from contradicting his personal hatred of comedy.
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The Name of the Rose / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
The Name of the Rose / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: The book's writing style closely imitates that of medieval manuscripts (complete with era-appropriate quotations to religious and scientific texts of the period), whereas the plot is noted to be very accurate in its recreation of medieval monastery life, and involves a political and religious conflict that's obscure for most casual readers. Not surprising, as Eco was a scholar of the Middle Ages.
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The Name of the Rose	hasFeature	Amateur Sleuth / int_26698c5a
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