The Development Of The Character Sienna Brooks In Dan Brown S Inferno

Exploring the development of Sienna Brooks throughout Inferno by Dan Brown Sienna Brooks is one of the main characters starring in Dan Brown’s
Inferno. She is a young doctor and acts as an assistant to Dan Brown’s protagonist; Robert Langdon as he tries to stop a deadly virus created by
Bertrand Zobrist, Sienna’s lover.
Betand Zobrist believes in the “population apocalypse equation” the idea that all the worlds problems are due to the rapidly rising population and that the worlds population should be cut down to 4 billion so that humanity can thrive prosperously.

A population graph summarising the exponential population growth throughout the last few hundred years.

Sienna Brooks is a character with a huge depth of emotion. she has felt hardship, loss as well as loneliness and isolation. She often feels misunderstood and isolated. She herself says “
I know what it's like to feel all alone...the worst kind of loneliness in the world is isolation that comes from being misunderstood, it can make people lose their grasp on reality.” The reader first comes across Sienna brooks as a young intern working in a Florentine hospital. She is described as intelligent but also being

attributed to having “witnessed a profundity of experience rarely encountered by a person her age." After escaping a would be assassin
Sienna and Robert run back to Sienna’s flat. Whilst looking through some old newspapers belonging to her Robert learns that she was a child genius with an IQ of 208. A theatre star and master of languages but there is also a hint the of loneliness being transpired through them a sense of being unique and not in a good way. He reads about her at the age of 8 running away from home, staying in a hotel and reading “all
1,600 pages of Grey’s Anatomy” to try and discover what was wrong with her abnormal brain. In this one chapter you discover that Sienna is a character with a lot more depth than is originally transpired.
Whilst Langdon is reading the newspaper clippings in the main room.
Sienna is inside the bathroom and suddenly breaks down, removing her hair, which can be taken as a sign of chemotherapy through cancer which again hints towards the fact that she isn't wholly healthy. “She cried for the life she could not control.” Since she was a child Sienna tried to understand what was wrong with her, this made her feel like an outsider and destroyed her self confidence for the rest of her life. “she cried for the mentor who had died before her eyes.” The reader first imagines this is
Professor Marconi who is gunned down in front of he by Marta Krall but is later found out to be Bertrand Zobrist. “She cried for the profound loneliness that filled her heart” Which again highlights the idea of her being alienated because of her vast intelligence. Sienna decides to start a charitable life after realising her depression is caused by her believing she is alone and doesn't belong in this world. She travels to Manila in the Philippines and tries to help people. she discovers swells of people. A completely choking atmosphere with people everywhere. All desperate and needing, “when they (humans) face desperation...human beings become animals.” This starts the ball rolling for her eventual turn into believing in transhumanism and the idea that the human population is too high and must be culled. Whilst walking alone in
Manila she is kidnapped by some men who are about to copulate her

when a deaf old woman saves her. This experience horrifies her and convinces her of the evils and lengths at which people behave when confronted with desperation. It also reminds her that even in a hellhole like Manila there is still a spark of goodness in humans. This is a pivotal moment in her life and affects her for the rest of the duration of the book. On their way to Venice. Ferris, their guide receives a call which reveals that one of their company; Ferris, Langdon and Sienna, is Bertrand
Zobrist's (the antagonist in the novel) lover. Dan Brown makes the reader assume that Ferris was Bertrand's lover whereas it was actually Sienna.
While gazing out the window she reminisces about Bertrand and when she first met him at a transhumanist conference.
Bertrand Zobrist was a prominent geneticist and a supporter of transhumanism. She is in awe of him and acts similarly to a fan meeting her favourite singer which seems very out of character from the factual, intelligent Sienna of previous chapters . "I have read everything this man has ever written" creating the idea of her obsession with his work.
As the conference moves to the bar Sienna realises her great attraction to
Zobrist "the deep pull of sexual attraction" of which she has never felt before or with someone. This combined with her original interest and commitment results in an emotional bond which brings her comfort and companionship of which she has never experienced before in her life as an outsider and being classed as a freak due to her intelligence. “I will follow this man anywhere,” she becomes totally obsessed and has fallen in love with him. She has fallen in love but as well as that “I became more than his lover, I became his disciple.” Sienna starts to believe in his cause, and more importantly of the “population apocalypse equation” which she also thoroughly believes in especially after her harrowing experience in Manila with the choking atmosphere where hundreds and thousands of people living together in a small area, a stark reminder of what would happen if the worlds population grew to the expected 10 billion by 2050.

After focusing on three defining moments in Sienna Brook’s life in Dan
Brown’s inferno we have seen how emotions and a humans need for companionship and understanding can make them do things they never thought they could do. Sienna Brooks was a child who was blessed with an abnormally intelligence yet this turned out to be a curse. Witnessing horrifying scenes as she tried to find herself in charity,and almost being subjected to the most brutal actions possible. To at las finding love and going to extraordinary lengths to ensure it remains. ONly to see her lover perish in front of her own eyes. Sienna’s journey throughout the novel acts as a parallel to life as a whole. Dan Brown uses her as a vessel in which to convey all the ideas of transhumanism as well as the frailty and seeming hopelessness of life. Of course there's also the side of light where she portrays our perseverance and ingenuity. Sienna Brooks portrays a range of emotions across the spectrum and embodies everything that is humanity.