Sir leigh teabing biography of william shakespeare

Robert Langdon: “Harrison Ford in Harris tweed” (p. 10), Langdon is a scholar in the obscure and complicated field of religious and mythic symbology, but he also possesses physical attractiveness and personal charm.

He is an intellectual action hero, capable of brilliant flashes of insight, with a wealth of detailed information at his command—yet he is personable, approachable, and possesses a dry wit. For all his learning, he has not lost the sense of wonder that first drew him into his study of the Grail, for at the novel’s end, he falls to his knees in a “sudden upwelling of reverence” at his quest’s conclusion (p.

489).
Jacques Saunière: A celebrated curator at the Louvre Museum in Paris, Saunière is murdered in the novel’s prologue. He nevertheless functions as an important character in The Da Vinci Code, “speaking” through the various puzzles, riddles and cip