Sienna Brooks' Character Development

    

     Sienna Brooks is first introduced in Inferno as a young doctor who was one of the first people that Robert Langdon (the main character) saw when he woke up in a hospital in Italy.

     "'I'm Doctor Sienna Brooks,' she said, giving Langdon a smile as she entered,"(Inferno 3%)

     "...Langdon knew the medieval structure well.
    
     It was unique in the world.

     Unfortunately, it was also located four-thousand miles from Massachusetts," (Inferno 4%)

     Throughout the book she helps Langdon by alluding the SRS team, along with their drone, AND a presumed assassin named Vayentha. Her motives appear rock-solid as it appears she is working in Italy illegally while using false papers. She also has quite a mysterious past, as Langdon finds out while observing her apartment. He finds that she was a child prodigy with an off the charts IQ, who was a Shakespearean actor at a young age.

     They eventually through a turn of events (yeah, I know that that is a really descriptive summary of events, but if you have ever read any Dan Brown books, you would know that there are way too many plot twists to try and explain everything!) discover that Robert was in Italy attempting to unravel the clues left by the late Bertrand Zobrist who was convinced that the word would reach its apocalypse due to overpopulation within the upcoming years. Sienna provides insight on Zobrist and his work by attributing to how he contributed much of his life to advancing modern medicine. However, we come to find out that her relationship with Bertrand Zobrist far exceeds that of a doctor following up with the latest medical journals.

     "According to the provist, Sienna Brooks and Bertrand Zobrist had been longtime lovers. They were active together in some kind of underground Transhumanist movement," (Inferno 77%)

It goes to show how deceptive our first impressions of characters can be...