II.

SUMMARY
The Vatican community was lamenting and sorrowful to the sudden death of their pope. Days
after, death scythes again; a murder occurred — CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)
expert — Leonardo Vetra seen lifeless on the laboratory with chest punctured and branded with
ambigram “Illuminati.” In order to solve a big labyrinth of crime, CERN director and Vetra’s close
colleague, Maximillian Kohler calls Robert Langdon, a professor in Harvard University professor and a
skilled symbologist. With hope, Kohler demands Langdon to communicate and interpret him the
Illuminati’s impetus and secretive clues. Then, Langdon describes the long-forgotten, part of the
Illuminati’s dark history.
Kohler fetches Vetra's adoptive daughter Vittoria, and it is learned that the Illuminati, a long-
thought-extinct anti-religious group, has stolen a canister containing antimatter, a material with
destructive power tantamount to a nuclear bomb. Afterwards, the professor immediately theorized that the
Illuminati cannot be directly responsible for the deaths for two motives: first, the Illuminati went extinct a
centuries ago, and their odds and ends were transferred into the Freemasons; second the Illuminati
individuals are science persons, hence, would never impose harm and violence to their fellow scientist.
Nonetheless, Kohler posited that Vetra possibly be an exemption since he was also consecrated as a
Catholic priest.
Meanwhile, in Camerlengo’s office, Vittoria discusses the possible hazards of antimatter
detonation to the Swiss Guard’s commandant, Commander Olivetti. After a while, they receive a call
from an anonymous guest. The mystery caller declares himself as a messenger of Illuminati and that he
sequentially abducts the four Preferiti or Papabile: Cardinal Ebner, Lamassé, Guidera, and Baggia, who
were the forerunners for papal candidacy.
Robert Langdon’s quest just commence. The late pope's closest associate, Camerlengo Carlo
Ventresca, with the Swiss Guards, led by Olivetti, assisted and granted Langdon and Vittoria to access to
Rome's most secret vault “Archivio Vaticano” or Vatican Apostolic Archives, where Galileo’s
Diagramma can be cited. The said historical book contain clues to the secret markers present in the
commune of Rome, named as The Path of Illumination. After that, they try to find and dissect out the
hints mentioned in the manuscript that may guide them to the secret altars of science. The map then takes
Langdon and Vittoria to four basilica or cathedrals in Rome, each featuring pieces of art by Baroque artist
Gian Lorenzo Bernini. These four markers depict angels and were linked with one of the four classical
elements of the west: Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. Langdon then decodes that the four preferiti will be
slayed in a form that is symbolically connected to the inherent characteristic of each site.

Hurrying to save the four cardinals, Langdon and company goes to Chigi Chapel, being the first
marker. Silenced deafens the room on what they saw — Cardinal Ebner's body, asphyxiated by a pile of
earth with the ambigram "Earth." Totally engrossed by the scene he had recently observed, Langdon
hardly focuses on the chapel to sort out a clue that led to the next altar of science, related to air. Following
the information obtained from the unknown caller, Journalist Gunther Glick and Chinita Macri reach
Piazza del Popolo and covers a news story. They telecasted a crowd of Swiss Guards investigating the
bloody crime scene.
The rigorous mission continues. One of the Swiss-guard directs Langdon to the exact marker of
West Ponente, depicting "the breath of God" or "air", present in St. Peter Square. When they arrive at the
marker, they witness lifeless Cardinal Lamassé, with lungs being ripped and chest severely marked with
the ambigram "Air." After learning the third altar, Langdon and company hastily proceed to Santa Maria
della Vittoria chapel. However, they encounter Cardinal Guidera, suspended and handtied firmly towards
the raging fire, and etched with the ambigram "Fire," and seek to rescue the cleric, but the assassin
emerges and begins assassinating them, before snatching Vittoria. After getting a first-aid treatment,
Langdon wonders for the fourth altar of science and worries for Vittoria.
After decoding the clue for the last altar, Langdon immediately runs near the Bernini’s Fountain.
The van stops near the fountain and the assassin drowns Cardinal Baggia to death with an ambigram
“Water” seared on his chest. In the flipside, the crowd in St. Peter’s Square was astonished as
Camerlengo Ventresca publicly presents the seized antimatter, which he locates at the top of St. Peter’s
tomb. The camerlengo communicates that this thing is a heavenly gift by divine power in aiming to
integrate the polarized area of religion and science calculatedly. After a minute, the canister explodes
violently. The sky filled with lovely stars is now covered with scintillating matter.
The skeleton in the closet has opened. Camerlengo is the main perpetrator of all, from the pope’s
murder to the killing of four preferiti. Finding himself in guilt, he takes away his own life by burning
himself alive in public — self-immolation. The novel ends with Langdon and Vittoria come together in
Hotel Bernini happily ever after a deadly mission.

III. INTERPRETATION
Angels and Demons is the main book in the profoundly well-known Robert Langdon
series. The book is of secret thrill ride sort, written in first individual utilizing perspectives of various
characters, yet the protagonist is Robert Langdon. The book begins with a bloody murder and afterward
follows the characters' excursion to track down the executioner and stay away from a fiasco. A quick
moving thrill ride zeroed in on Langdon's endeavors to find who is calling the shots inside the Illuminati
and how far their impact goes. Its significant subjects are religion versus science, suspicion versus
confidence, and the hold that influential individuals and organizations have over individuals they
evidently serve. Dan Brown, who himself filled in as an instructor, based piece of the personality of
Robert Langdon on himself. He worked the plot around the deep rooted discussion of religion versus
science with a couple other subplots around it. The subject, currently questionable, prompts the pressure
in the plot. The book begins with a homicide of a researcher at the CERN. Stunned at having observed a
cross in the researcher's loft, that he thinks that it is unfathomable that the researcher was a minister as
well. Science is blamed for downplaying widespread issues as far as conditions and numbers and religion
is blamed for controlling the capability of mankind. The title and the ambigrams related mirror this as
well. This inquiry is strengthened with the utilization of ambigrams. The title on the cover page
accordingly mirrors this. The plot additionally joins fantasies around old researchers and their death
energized by religion. Thus, it's practically amusing that ministers are killed by men of science in a
similar manner. The plot is essentially an assault on religion by science, however is uncovered to be the
other way around, in this manner broadcasting that the two can't support together.

V. JUDGEMENT
Hazel: Angels and Demons is an interesting blood curler for the manner by which it merges strict and
recorded components in with a feeling of presentiment. It acquainted the overall population with an age
sold mystery society, and was a special passage into the universe of fear inspired notion secrets. While the
book may not be incredible writing in essence, it is extraordinary amusement. All around plotted and
dangerously paced. Packed with Vatican interest and greetings tech dramatization, Earthy colored's story
is bound with turns and shocks that keep the readers wired until the last disclosure. Loading the novel
with vile figures deserving of a Medici, Earthy colored establishes an unstable rhythm through a
Michelin-amazing Rome. The book accepted its portion of analysis, essentially for its authentic errors
introduced as truth, an analysis that would extend into The Da Vinci Code, which played much more
reckless with history and religion. A few Catholics disapproved of Angels and Demons, and with its
ensuing spinoffs, expressing that the book is only a slanderous attack of their convictions. Then again, the
book's accentuation on secret social orders, elective translations of history, and fear inspired notions may
strike sober minded readers as to a greater extent a dream as opposed to a reality-based spine chiller. At
last, Dan Brown doesn't keep down, all things considered. A few Catholics may protest or find upsetting
the realistic idea of Earthy colored's composition. All things considered, angels and demons presences has
sold great many duplicates around the world, and stays a famous read with admirers of scheme bound
thrill rides. Overall I like the thrills and shocks in the story together with the concept of angels and
demons and that illuminati is an instrument to evilness.

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