Inferno by Dan Brown

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In Dan Brown’s novel, Inferno, the main character, Robert Langdon, learns how you shouldn’t believe everything that people tell you and that many people have more than one reason for doing something. Throughout the novel, Professor Langdon has to use his university-level symbology and art knowledge to try and decrypt Dante’s Inferno into a map to stop global bioterrorism. In the novel, the world meets the diabolical plans of a single biochemist to stop overpopulation. “The doors were never sealed, Brüder realised to his horror. Containment has failed.” This shows that the World Health Organization (WHO) knows that the biochemist, Dr Bertrand Zobrist, leader of the Transhumanist movement and ancient art enthusiast obsessed with Dante, had released some kind of virus to infect humanity. Dr Zobrist and his movement had realised that because of modern medicine, the world couldn’t control the worlds population with disease and famine anymore, which resulted in overpopulation. His plan was to release a virus which would counteract modern medicine. Robert also finds out that his best friend in the novel, Felicity Sienna Brooks, was actually working for Dr Zobrist. “Brüder shook his head. ‘No trace. They’re looking, but Sienna Brooks has vanished.’ Langdon did a double take. They’re looking for Sienna?” This shows that Langdon was completely oblivious to Sienna’s true motives for being with him to find the Solubon bag with the virus. “Far more tragic, though, was her knowledge that his captors would waste no time revealing to Langdon the true nature of the situation. I’m so sorry, Robert. For everything. Please know I had no choice.” This shows that Sienna was hiding her real ideals and motives from him. Robert’s whole world turns upside down when he finds out that the very people he was running from and trying to stop were actually the good guys. “‘People were trying to
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