Novel Synthesis ( Angels and Demons + Dover Beach)

The main theme that connects both Angels & Demons and Dover Beach is the loss of faith. In Angels & Demons the loss of faith is shown tremendously through out this novel. It shows how that science has somewhat taken over and less faith in god and religion are shown. In the novel when Vittoria and Kohler are arguing about the antimatter and how genesis is possible it kind of destroys the perception of how the world was actually formed from a religious point of view. In Dover Beach when Matthew Arnold speak of the Sea of Faith and how it used to be broad and now while seeing the sea retreat to the shore its not so much. " The Sea of Faith Was once , too at the full , and round earth's shore", " But now I only hear Its melancholy, long , withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath". The diffrence between the two pieces of literature is the Angels & Demons are more literal when discussing the loss of faith and Dover Beach is more on the metaphorical side. However they both dispute the loss of faith in the modern age.