


At times in the book Brown would include a chapter that would hint away at what the next move of the killer was to be. When the killer steals the life of a citizen in the book the story begins to snowball from that point as everything gets worse and worse. In the story the killer resembles a main cog in a complex network of gears in that the story Angels & Demons begins to unravel further as the killer makes his next move. I think Brown gave him as little description as possible so that people will begin to think that he is a rather shady individual. In the story Brown directly describes the killer as “a short mahogany skinned man”. However I also think he is not an archetypal character in that he may be a common villain but Brown decorates his past with many interesting facts which make him a very unique villain. The killer in my opinion is an archetypal character in that he is a common villain. Archetypal characters are considered standard character types such as hero, villain, lover, and helper. As the mysterious killer works to destroy the Vatican and Langdon and Vittoria seek to defend it the killer would be labeled one of the antagonists of the novel. It’s these descriptive sentences of his personality throughout the story that make the killer a horrifyingly believable character. each encounter satisfying only temporarily before increasing his longing for more.

In my opinion the killer is the most believable character in the book, solely by the way Brown describes his personality in the story “for him killing was like heroin. However I chose the Illuminati assassin because I believe he adds a lot to the book and keeps the ball rolling throughout the story. The character that I chose is not the main character.

By including this information of the mysterious mans path he lets the readers know that this unknown enemy means business. His past is saturated with descendants of the original assassins, first called the Hassassin. In Angels & Demons Brown includes a rather mysterious character of the book who he describes to be an Illuminati assassin.
