Dan Brown's Angels and Demons - Book Report/Review Example

However, he tries to establish the same thing with religion also as Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca is the real villain in the film who plans the entire plot to be the next pope. He even kills the scientist who tries to establish link between science and god. The idea of Camerlengo might be the fact that when the science finds god at a time, the domination of religious heads on the common people may end. Unable to bear that he unleashed terror by killing the scientist with that thought and tries to be Pope with the help of his demonstration of extra ordinary powers like message from god.

Hence, Dan Brown tries to establish from an interesting murder and destruction as well as investigative story that both science and religion act as evil in the hands of evil people and can do well in the hands of good people. 1 Dan Brown tries to depict the religion and science as tools in the hands of good and evil persons who can use them for benevolent and violent purposes. When we consider Langdon simultaneously with Camerlengo, the person related to science (Symbology is also a science and Langdon is not a religious person) has helped the religion by avoiding Camerlengo from becoming Pope by revealing the evil plots of him on Vatican City.

Hence, from the characters of Langdon and Camerlengo, Dan Brown tries to put forth the fact that either religion or science will be useful to mankind if the people using them are benevolent and noble minded. Being an 'Illuminati' Langdon did not cooperate with the extinct organization's evil intentions, but Camerlengo did it for his selfish motives. Hence, the application of religion or science can be useful to the people when the proponents are not selfish and using their religion or science for common good of mankind.

Though the four elements that illuminati believes 'Earth, Air, Fire and Water are creations of god they become as a tool in the hands of Hassasin, the executor of the evil wills of Janus; the master of illuminati. Hence, it can be understood that the religion or science is part of the human thinking and is connected with the cosmos, from which we draw energy for our deeds. Hence, the plot in the novel demonstrates the eternal struggle between science and religion. Struggle Between Science and ReligionAs the struggle between science and religion is eternal and the struggle is as old as the science.

The science came to the fore or took birth, when the systematic though in religious institutions has been disturbed. According to Einstein (1941), the science is the systematic thought of the perceptible phenomena of this world. As he mentions that science is posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization, the religion, which relies on belief and devotion, struggles with the fundamentals and theories of science. However, science is understood by all people in a uniform manner, but religion is not like that.

Different people understand religion and god in different ways and Einstein explains it as coming to the best of an individual's ability, liberating self from the fetters of selfish desires and preoccupied thoughts and beliefs. However, when the so called religions people; for example Camerlengo in 'Demons and Angels' is a part of religious system, as he did