Physical Appearance How Artemis Fowl is depicted in the novel

27 Another successful plan because of this characteristic happens on page 86-88. Artemis came to make sure that Butler did his job well. Butler was still monitoring the situation in the Manor. Artemis did not want to have an uninvited guest. He succeeded to realize that some fairies were heading toward the Manor to save Holly. Artemis decided to use Holly’s helmet as a weapon to help Butler expel them away from the Manor and finally it worked. A phrase said that nobody’s perfect in this world is true. It also happened in Artemis. Although he was very careful and genius but he still had a lack of understanding with the fairies and he seemed to underestimate them. It almost ruined the whole plans of Artemis. There were four incidents that almost ruined Artemis plan. The first was that Artemis thought that LEP Lower Element Police would use the normal and straight way as he had already predicted, but then it was wrong. Julius Root, the commander of LEP used an unorthodox action to stop Artemis. Root plans to send Mulch Diggums, a kleptomaniac dwarf, to sneak into the Manor 2001: 114-116. Mulch had an incredible ability in digging and he easily got into the Manor without being noticed by Artemis and Butler 2001: 118- 119. Mulch finally found a copy of Fairy’s book that was hidden by Artemis in his safety box 2001: 124. The second was Foaly, a genius centaur who built the security for the fairies life, successfully hijacked Artemis’ computer and gave him a loop 2001: 125. The third was Holly, 28 placed in a special room as a prisoner, succeeded to plant the acorn and got her magic power again and finally flew away from the special room after she mesmerized Juliet 2001: 127-129. The last one was LEP, under the command of Lieutenant Cudgeon, sent a troll into the Manor to stop Artemis 2001: 140. This incident almost killed Butler, but Holly saved him by using her magic 2001: 150-154.

4. Selfish

Artemis was a selfish person. He had no doubt in using some tricks to achieve his goal. He put a half pint of holy water inside the whiskey that could kill the fairy 2001: 7. It was common because he was the son of a European Crime Lord. To achieve his goal, he usually used many negative ways. Coming from a rich family may affect in this selfishness. He usually got anything he wanted because he was rich. It made him looked greedy although he had already had everything he wanted. Artemis’ decisions to abduct and get the demand from fairies, species that live underground peacefully for a long time, were also the selfish ones. He did not care about the cause and effect of the two species would have if the fairies were exposed. Artemis only cared about himself 80. “The hide was ingenious in design and interest had already been expressed in the manufacturing rights - mostly by military representatives - but Artemis had resolved to sell the patent to a sporting-goods multinational.” 49