- Robert Langdon: The protagonist is a professor of symbology at Harvard University. He is described as always wearing chino pants, a turtleneck sweater and a tweed coat. He was first flown to CERN to investigate Leonardo Vetra's murder; this is where he meets Vittoria and they both travel to Italy to save the Vatican. Lastly, upon further research, Robert's last name is a tribute to John Langdon who created all the ambigrams for Angels and Demons.
- Leonardo Vetra: A scientist at CERN and an ex priest. He steadily worked on bringing together science and religion (people of both backgrounds despise each other). He was working on the antimatter, when the Hassassin tortured, branded and killed him.
- Vittoria Vetra: Adopted daughter of Leonardo and a scientist at CERN. She helped to create antimatter with Leonardo, utilizing her background in biology and physics.
- Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca: The "Camerlengo", papal chamberlain or assistant during the election for the next Pope. Upon reading, one learns the Camerlengo is the killer of the pope who turns out to be his biological father. He also created the Illuminati ruse, calling himself "Janus" to the Hassassin. Janus was code for the two-faced Roman god for beginning and end.
- Commander Olivetti: The commandant of the Swiss Guard, who at first opposes Robert because he is skeptic about antimatter, Illuminati etc. After talking with the Hassassin by phone, he gains confidence that there is a threat and begins leading the team of guards to find the antimatter. He gets killed by the Hassassin in the church of Santa Maria della Vittoria.
- Hassassin: A hired killer by the Carmlengo (Janus) who has no problem murdering or killing people. His justification is that his deeds are for the better for the church. Throughout the story, he murders Leonardo Vetra, the Preferiti (4 most likely cardinals to become pope) and Commander Olivetti. He dies from falling to his death and breaking his back on a pile of cannonballs.
- Maximilian Kohler: The director of CERN who has paralysis. He has a state of the art wheelchair with a built-in computer, telephone, video camera, and a gun. He contacts Langdon to help him find the killer Leonardo Vetra. He blames the Church for his paralysis, because his very religious parents refused to let him receive medicine.
Friday, 11 November 2011
Characters in Angels & Demons
This purpose of this blog is to give a brief overview of all main characters.The main characters are:
