Abstract The current research is concerned with the analysis of two characters who were the access points in State of Terror(2021) written by the former United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Canadian mystery novelist Louise Penny. Characterization is an area in literature where writers do their own best to create their own characters creatively. The current research is an attempt to shed light on an important character created by Hillary and Louise. A systemic functional analysis SFL is applied as a framework to analyze the characters.Concentration was on the role of transitivity in showing the hidden ideologies in the Ellen Adams the fictional US secretary of State and the Pakistani nuclear physicist Bashir Shah. A quantitative research methodology was used to stand on the levels of transitivity in which the basic unit is the clause. The corpus linguistic tool used in this research is the UAM software. The ideology that the research tries to show is Islamophobia, terrorism, and patriotism. The research aims to show how linguistics has helped to an extent in literary text analysis.