Who is the silver-haired woman? In the book, Inferno by Dan Brown, this character starts off without the assurance that she is even real. Robert Langdon, the protagonist, sees her in dreams after his amnesia and only refers to her as the silver-haired woman. When they meet she is given a name and a reason to why she was in Langdon’s dreams. She is the character with the most influence on Langdon from the beginning and is on Langdon’s side. This silver-haired woman changes from being in a dream to being real to making an ultimate decision.
In the beginning, there was Robert Langdon and his companion, Sienna, but there was also another woman in Langdon’s dreams. In his dreams “The silver-haired woman with the amulet” calls to him. This description shows that she is old to have silver hair and the fact that Langdon calls it silver instead of gray shows that she must distinguished from all others. The amulet again shows that she would be old enough to have something from her youth that may have taught her a life lesson. All of these descriptors combined shows that she has wisdom and is highly respectable. In his dreams this woman of authority appears and instructs “Seek … And ye shall find.”(9) Thanks to Robert’s amnesia, he does not know what she is talking about; he only has the feeling that he knows her. This sentence, repeated in his many dreams, guides him to where he needs to go. The silver-haired woman must have been important to Langdon to appear in his dreams, important enough to fight the amnesia. What this woman is guiding him towards is to stop a man who refers to himself as the Shade. The Shade is a mysterious character for much of the book, although two things are clear. He thinks of himself as “your salvation” (48) and...
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... what reverse what may save the human race one day. With this in mind, she does not announce a clear side she is on when she leaves for Geneva. This is who Dr. Sinskey is and how she thinks.
The silver-haired woman transformed from a character in a dream to a doctor to someone who considers both sides. But in the end of the book, she still goes back to Geneva with stopping the disease in mind because she knows how the rest of the world would respond to having the right of being fruitful taken away. Dr. Sinskey may not have been the protagonist, but was just as important and is the reason that Langdon could have even accomplished what he did. The big thought following her endlessly throughout the story is “If you could throw a switch and randomly kill half the population on earth, would you do it?” (218)
Works Cited
Brown, Dan. Inferno. New York: Doubleday, 2013.
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“So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.”-James 4:17. Although many of us have forgiving hearts, a sin is a sin no matter who the perpetrator is, you wouldn’t forgive a person for hurting you just because they’re your friend, would you? This is highlighted throughout Dante Alighieri’s epic poem The Inferno while Dante, the protagonist, is lead on a journey through hell while he meets many sinner who Alighieri, the author, has come upon in his own life before and after being exiled from his beloved city Florence due to political unrest. While he was exiled he wrote a story about him and his guide, Virgil, who leads him through Hell to meet many sinner and examine their varying punishments, where Dante exemplifies
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Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code explores an alternative Christian history where the Holy Grail is not a chalice, but a woman, Mary Magdalene. The story begins when symbologist Robert Langdon investigates Jacques Sauniére's murder, the curator of the Louvre. He meets cryptologist Sophie Nuveu and they embark on a quest to interpret the message Sauniére left behind before his death. Brown uses many sources such as the canonical gospels, the non-canonical gospels, the Priory of Scion, Opus Dei, and Da Vinci’s works of art. He also makes several statements about Mary Magdalene based off of these sources.
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Dan Brown is an American Author who has many science-fiction prize winning and acclaimed novels, based on history, he is also my favorite author. Several of his novels include The Da Vinci Code, Deception Point, Angels and Demons, Digital Fortress, Inferno, and The Lost Symbol. Brown's novels are treasure hunts set in a 24-hour period, and feature the recurring themes of cryptography, keys, symbols, codes, and conspiracy theories. By 2012, it had been recorded that his books had sold over 200,000,000 copies. (Dan Brown) The Da Vinci Code alone sold over 20,000,000 copies the first month it had been released. (Dan Brown) Two of them; Angels and Demons, and The Da Vinci Code had been adapted into blockbuster movies. Dan had extremely interesting stages of life; including his childhood which inspired many of his books. (Pelt) Many of Dan’s ideas were radical and were proficient at blending unique ideas with both modern and ancient conspiracies; and brought together personal experiences into his books to express himself. (Ford)
The author of The Da Vinci Code is Dan Brown. He was born in Exeter, New Hampshire on June 22nd 1964. His father, Richard G. Brown, was a teacher at his school, the Phillips Exeter Academy; his mother, Connie Brown, was a musician. His parents’ love of music influenced Brown for the rest of his life, as he still dabbles in music to this day. Brown graduated from Amherst College in 1986. He is a noted thriller fiction author, well known for his 24-48 hour, fast pace treasure hunt style literature. Browns’ novels have sold more than 200 million copies. His novels are heavily influenced by his real life. His love of treasure hunts were encouraged by the scavenger hunts his father prepared for him and his siblings. Many of his characters are also inspired by important people from his life. Brown met his wife, Blythe, at the National Academy of Songwriters; they married in 1997. Blythe is an art historian and painter, which makes her a perfect “head researcher” for Browns novels.
There are many major themes of the book, but revenge is the most imminent theme, the factor that leads the protagonists to their dismal fate. Bronte proves there is no peace in eternal vengeance, and in the end self-injury involved in serving revenge’s purposes will be more damaging than the original wrong.