Knowledge is often looked at as being a good thing or something to hold dear. In The Name of the Rose this proves to be a completely different case. This is because the monastery sets the standard of living for some monks to be in higher forms than others. The lower forms are simply translators and, as stated by the church, should not be knowledgeable over things that the higher forms are. I intend to argue that in The Name of the Rose, the library shows a way of being both a literal and figurative trap for whomever enters because the people entering believed it was evil. This is because it is a place of knowledge, and as said before knowledge is a very dangerous aspect in the setting given in this novel/movie.

One way that the library is shown as a frightful place is in the way it is shown to be very secretive. The librarian and his assistant often do not enter when anyone is looking and are very discrete about the entering of the library. The rule is given that only the librarians should enter, and the secretive tone shown by their actions gives it its

Christian libraries such as the one this one was supposed to be, would go to show that, as stated before, knowledge is evil. This could be discussed in many ways, but actually the library served as a classical library moderately neutral to any religious beliefs. For using simple knowledge taught by fictional stories of old, William and his companion were able to make their way out of the library. The burning of the library by the elder monk was based on his own beliefs that once exposed, the library could cause evil. This, again sets the mood that if the library was believed to be evil, then it would end in an evil fashion. Whereas, towards the end, the companion of William shows that classical learning, which was considered evil, was the only true way to leave the already evil library.

While inside the library, there were labyrinths of all forms. Such labyrinths included the physical ones as well as the mazes of knowledge. Such knowledge-based mazes were in the forms of books that would involve most into reading them and getting them sucked into the story to where they forgot where they were.

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William Baskerville, Name Rose, Rose Knowledge, name rose, believed evil, Umberto Echo, companion able, considered evil, focus vanity, evil ones, library rule,
Approximate Word count = 743
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)