I am reading Dan Brown’s Inferno, and I am on page 567. This book is about the American Harvard professor Robert Langdon while he is on a journey of mystery, ancient symbols, and the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. In this journal I will be evaluating and explaining. In this novel the author, Dan Brown, uses irony. This book is the last in a small trilogy and throughout the other two books the main character has relied mainly on his semi-identic memory but in this one he cannot recall the past 36 hours of his life. This is due to a non-fatal bullet wound at the top of his head. This causes a large issue with Robert, the main character, as he tries to solve a puzzle that if unsolved could bring the downfall of humanity. As he keeps uncovering puzzles he is accompanied by his
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In these two ways Dan Brown has given his novel ironic value. To go with the theme of irony in this novel there are two recurring symbols. One being the plague doctors of the 14th century and the other being Dante Alighieri’s Inferno. The Plague Doctor shows up before anything bad happens to the main character Robert Langdon, like when an older gypsy lady is selling antique plague masks just before Langdon gets kidnapped by a team of military trained men. The first time we hear of this creepy mask is after Robert wakes up in the hospital. In his time of being knocked out (as we know later is caused by a bullet wound to the head) he has visions of the plague mask telling Robert that it was Death. The most recent point of seeing the plague mask was when it is worn by the main villain Bertrand Zobrist, a genius in the field of plagues and a known Trans-Humanist, in a video depicting him explaining to the world what he has done, and what he has done is create a plague to wipe out over half the human populous because he believed doing so would increase humanities time on this
In these two ways Dan Brown has given his novel ironic value. To go with the theme of irony in this novel there are two recurring symbols. One being the plague doctors of the 14th century and the other being Dante Alighieri’s Inferno. The Plague Doctor shows up before anything bad happens to the main character Robert Langdon, like when an older gypsy lady is selling antique plague masks just before Langdon gets kidnapped by a team of military trained men. The first time we hear of this creepy mask is after Robert wakes up in the hospital. In his time of being knocked out (as we know later is caused by a bullet wound to the head) he has visions of the plague mask telling Robert that it was Death. The most recent point of seeing the plague mask was when it is worn by the main villain Bertrand Zobrist, a genius in the field of plagues and a known Trans-Humanist, in a video depicting him explaining to the world what he has done, and what he has done is create a plague to wipe out over half the human populous because he believed doing so would increase humanities time on this