Killing for the sake of salvation
Bertrand Zobrist, “who is a biochemist and Dante fanatic”, dreams that the whole humanity will not be in the deep crisis. He wants that the population will not suffer from crowdedness and hunger, mired in sins and hopelessness. The irony concerns the fact that Zobrist wants to save the whole humankind, exterminating its part with the help of the virus.
Nightmares
After exhausting days, Professor Langdon usually falls asleep quickly. Then he has nightmares. Nightmares always wake up people. It is wonderful, but Robert feels that he wakes up and plunges into a new nightmare. The irony is that people usually wake up to stop their nightmare, but “Langdon feels that the nightmare begins just, when he wakes up.” The pursuit of secrets and mysteries always seems for Robert to be a real nightmare.
Taste for foreign luxuries
Once, Venice reigned gloriously as the commercial center of Europe. By all accounts, “there was no more beautiful city in the world”, the wealth and culture of its population unparalleled. This amazing city always tried to borrow various wonderful traditions and luxury things. However, the ironical history of this city is that the craving for luxury became a doom for Venice. The population’s taste for foreign luxuries brought the demise—“the deadly plague was traveling from China to Venice on the backs of rats stowed away on trading vessels.”
