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Brown creates an invigorating novel concerning the uprising of an ancient satanic cult called the Illuminati. The word satanic however when used in context with the Illuminati simply means against the belief of Christ. While first trying to navigate their way through Vatican City; the main characters, Robert Langdon and Vittoria Vetra must also follow an ancient path of Illuminati history that snakes through Vatican City and ends in the sacred “Church of Illumination” where they must face the impending doom of a fatal scientific substance known as “Anti-Matter”. While Brown uses various literary elements to enforce the power of his work, by far in my opinion his use of the mysterious Illuminati assassins’ presence really tops off the book.
In Angels & Demons Brown includes a rather mysterious character of the book who he describes to be an Illuminati assassin. His past is saturated with descendants of the original assassins, first called the Hassassin. By including this information of the mysterious mans path he lets the readers know that this unknown enemy means business. The character that I chose is not the main character. However I chose the Illuminati assassin because I believe he adds a lot to the book and keeps the ball rolling throughout the story. In my opinion the killer is the most believable character in the book, solely by the way Brown describes his personality in the story “for him killing was like heroin . . . each encounter satisfying only temporarily before increasing his longing for more. The exhilaration had worn off. The craving had returned” (65). It’s these descriptive sentences of his personality throughout the story that make the killer a horrifyingly believable character. As the mysterious killer works to destroy the Vatican and Langdon and Vittoria seek to defend it the killer would be labeled one of the antagonists of the novel. Archetypal characters are considered standard character types such as hero, villain, lover, and helper. The killer in my opinion is an archetypal character in that he is a common villain. However I also think he is not an archetypal character in that he may be a common villain but Brown decorates his past with many interesting facts which make him a very unique villain. In the story Brown directly describes the killer as “a short mahogany skinned man”. I think Brown gave him as little description as possible so that people will begin to think that he is a rather shady individual. In the story the killer resembles a main cog in a complex network of gears in that the story Angels & Demons begins to unravel further as the killer makes his next move. When the killer steals the life of a citizen in the book the story begins to snowball from that point as everything gets worse and worse. At times in the book Brown would include a chapter that would hint away at what the next move of the killer was to be. By doing this a sort of fire would ignite within me as I plunged deeper into the novel trying to find out if Langdon and Vittoria had thwarted the killers next attempt to destroy Vatican City. In other words the mysterious killer was always the reason I would read a little further into the novel every night.
Angels & Demons portrays a fake attempt to destroy the Vatican by the Illuminati, fake Illuminati assassin, and fake characters in general. However the book portrays a very real existence of the Illuminati and they are considered the most powerful underground organization to ever exist. The conflict between the Vatican and the sciences is also a very real conflict. Brown however does a great job of making his novel seem very real. He uses all literary elements to help but the one I feel influences the novel the most is the character sketch of the mysterious killer.
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