The Themes In Dante's Inferno, By Dan Brown

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Inferno, published in 2013, is the fourth mystery thriller in the Robert Langdon series, authored by writer Dan Brown; characterized foremost by its many puzzles and historical influences, the book features a sub-plot concerning the philosophical thoughts of overpopulation and its potential solutions. Through his narrative technique, the author manages to create a thoroughly convincing conceivable tale, impelling the reader to disregard its fictionality whilst enticing the same into a suspension of disbelief. Initially, through his narrative techniques and plot points, the author fashions a supposable story rich in mesmeric material. This story, Inferno, begins with Professor Robert Langdon waking from a headwound, unable to recollect his …show more content…

As the story picks up one is with professor Landon introduced to a vast conspiracy seemingly connected to Dante Alighieri’s 14th century masterwork, Dante’s Inferno, spanning some of the antiques finest cities and helmed by a shadowy figure donning a plague mask declaiming the ailments of the ‘decease called mankind’ upon the earth. The central story, with its many twists and turns, is through a myriad of vivid and detailed descriptions of both places, people and proceedings made wholly immersible. In his titular fashion of mysteries and revelations, the author leads one from mystery to mystery, each answer provoking another question and each revelation more profound than the last; further adding to the immersion by steadily keeping the readers focused and attentive. Even though the enjoyment of the story itself is solely subjective its dramaturgical structure, authentic settings and discovery-based narrative evokes within the reader an air of …show more content…

Exempli gratia, much of the story is told through the mind of professor Langdon, by which the many moods of the tale are given shape and imparted. Through his mind one is made aware of his feeling of dread, disbelief, joy and so forth; perfectly setting the stage for acts and events in such a way that the reader stays within the authors intended frame of mind. The aforementioned urgency of professor Langdon's undertaking coupled with this, his emotional state and retrograde amnesia, in contrast to his normally eidetic memory, leads to a series of misapprehensions critical to the story; further augmenting the reasonability of the

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