Inferno-dan brown Essays - Divine Comedy, Afterlife, Italy, Virgil

Inferno-dan brown INFERNO literally means hell. As many eagerly waited for the release of the bestselling author Dan Browns next, inferno too came with a set of ups and downs in the plot. The book features the return of the world renowned Harvard symbologist, iconographer and historian Robert Langdon as he wakes up in the hospital bed of an unknown city which is miles away from his own with no recollection of the past events. The authors good luck charm who has been strongly criticized by many for his inhumanly amazing memory, ironically this time finds himself trapped in a breakneck chase to retrieve his biggest treasure: his lost memory .With only a macabre object with a bio hazard sign hidden in his Harris Tweed jacket and a few lines from a legendary poet to guide him, Langdon finally decides to escape his own government. The title of the book has been borrowed from Dante Alighieris dark and epic masterpiece inferno from The Devine Comedy- a brutally vivid account of the authors descend to the hell (inferno), passage through purgatory (purgatorio) and eventual ascent into paradise (paradisio). The author tries to bridge up the gap between what we aspire and what kind of aspiration we really want to make a reality. The story shows Bertrand Zobrist a super genius genetic engineer who tries to cut down the numbers of our population to the extent the great plaque in England once did and recreate the kind of opportunities and the enhanced conditions of living which resulted due to the pandemic. For this, he plans to do something unbelievably smart yet unforgettably evil. Inferno portrays this extremely debatable topic in an interesting way. Where on one side our brain agrees that spending sixty percent of the governments precious medical funds on people who have less than a week to survive is utter wastage, on the other side our heart refuses to let any chance of old grandmas betterment slip through our hands. But Zobrists thinking is rather too practical. The story shows how nothing can be more creativenor destructive than a brilliant mind with a purpose Although labelled as a mystery thriller, inferno manages to seek the attention of sci-fi readers too. The author drives the reader through an endless maze where every twist and turn just like in a rollercoaster ride aims not to deflect, but to guide you to your destination -Shagun Dubey