Angles and Demons by Dan Brown Essay

Angles and Demons by Dan embrown was a reading woof out of curiosity rather than touchable interest because of the Da Vinci Code by the same author. I wanted to disclose what other hunts of fiction Dan Brown came up with out front his controversial accommodate. This concur had me raising my eyebrows more than a few times with story line but that did not stop me from turning the pages until I got to the end. Angels and Demons basically follows the same formula as the Da Vinci Code.It begins with a murder which lone(prenominal)(prenominal) Robert Langdon seems capable of solving with his knowledge of spectral iconology and history a strong womanly character, Vittoria Vetra, daughter to the murder victim da Vinci Vetra, assists Langdon in his quest a leased assassin who is psychoneurotic, a fanatic and has incontestible the true to his opinion carries out an unexpected but well-crafted plan an ancient sneaking(a) society, the Illuminati, is out to get revenge on the church service finally, an unexpected mastermind who calls himself as Janus, works behind the curtains.An anti- offspring canister was stolen from CERN when da Vinci Vetra was murdered and this is assumed to open a life span of 24 hours before the batteries die and it explodes. Brown remains unfeigned to using archaic bits of knowledge to run a trail for Robert Langdon and Vittoria Vetra to follow from Switzerland to the Vatican city in order to find the absentminded anti-matter canister and find the murderer of da Vinci Vetra. The plot thickens when the anti-matter canister bomb threatens the Vatican and the faction in the process of choosing the new Pope.The book ends dramatically with a seemingly preternatural event followed by the declaration of a new Pope. though I enjoyed the groove more from Angels and Demons rather than the Da Vinci Code, I must say that, as a non-Christian priest, Brown seems have some issues with the church service to come up with troubling conc epts for his books. set-back you have Leonardo Vetra, a priest who turns away from the Church. He becomes a confidential information physicist of CERN and, together with his adopted daughter, tries to find immortal through science and research.They seem to be successful with the development of the anti-matter, which was stolen when Vetra was murdered. You also have a Pope who sired a infant with a nun, though through slushy means. The child later becomes his camerlengo, the Popes Chamberlain. The camerlengo, Carlo Ventresca, unaware of his paternal parentage, murders the Pope upon wise to(p) his dark secret with the belief that he is both cleansing and protecting the Church. Though the book is admittedly a work of fiction, it borders on tarnishing how Catholics and non-Catholics may view the Church and its priests.Brown puts into question the honesty and loyalty of priests to the Mother Church and their commitment to the affidavit of celibacy, as seen with the Pope. It is app alling to think that deliveryman surrogates on Earth would be the origin ones to violate their vows. Brown also pits pietism versus science. Leonardo Ventra is murdered for his research on anti-matter which can supposedly prove the blood of life, that science can prove divinitys existence. Id interchangeable to think that religion is a matter of faith and science is a matter of fact, the two just cant mix when it comes to explaining God.Then you have the camerlengo who is himself delusional and a fanatic in his belief that the Church, and not science, is the saving power of the adult male with himself at the wheel of salvation. He goes to bully lengths to get the worlds attention, discredit Science and put the Church on a pedestal for the world to see. Angels and Demons do me uncomfortable with the image of the Church that it created a divided, secretive, vindictive and vulnerable body. Readers, both Catholics and non-Catholics should be discriminating of the events in th is book, lest they forget that this is only a work of fiction.