A Beautiful Mind

John Nash was extremely intelligent man but let his work take over a lot of his life. I would describe his attitude as cocky as he believed he was much smarter than others and loved to prove it which is shown in the beginning with the board game between him and Hanson. I figured that he was one that knew he was there for the education and not to party like his fellow classmates were doing. He would stay in his room studying and figuring out the hardest math problems and working them on the windows. Figuring out math problems was what made his day.The clues that were the most alarming were when Nash and Charles are sitting on the roof they are chatting on a university building roof and getting to know each other better. Nash and Charles are

     In the film “ A Beautiful Mind” John Nash experiences a few different positive symptoms. The first of these positive symptoms are seen through the hallucinations John has of having a room -mate while at Princeton. This room- mate continues to stay “in contact” with John through out his adult life and later this room- mate’s niece enters Johns mind as another coinciding hallucination. Nash’s other hallucination is Ed Harris, who plays a government agent that seeks out Nash’s intelligence in the field of code- breaking.

John was placed in a mental hospital and treated with shock therapy and insulin. I think these treatments worked for John. Because the treatments reduced John 's symptoms of schizophrenia, he realized that his hallucinations and delusions were not true any longer. When he came back to home, doctor gave him the medicine, Thorazine. This medicine affected his thinking, so John gave it up. But once he stopped this medicine, his hallucinations returned back. That means the

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When looking at the characteristics of both John Nash from the film A beautiful Mind and Christopher Boone from the novel A Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, one can both spot the striking similarities and the very obvious differences that they both posses of one another. A very obvious difference between Nash and Christopher; for example, is that it is never stated in the novel that Christopher was ever diagnosed with any kind of mental illness, while Nash was diagnosed with Schizophrenia. Nash was being bombarded by a constant beret of false people and social situations his mind was creating, “Your mind is where the problem is in the first place!” (Dr. Rosen).

John Nash was a young man who went to Princeton and excelled in his studies. He was very bright and was a stellar student, however, he wasn’t the most social. John found it very difficult to interact with other people and often tried avoiding interactions with others. The only person he was able to talk to was his roommate Charles. And it turns out, spoiler warning, that he was never real to begin with. Putting that little fact aside, he eventually gets invited to the pentagon to decipher encrypted enemy telecommunication. After doing wonderfully on that, he gets a new job from a secretive superior who goes by the name William Parcher. William wants him to help stop the Soviets. John accepts, but soon becomes overly obsessed with it and starts seeing patterns that aren’t really there to begin with.

Hypothesis: Did Ron Howard portray John Nash's mental illness and life as it really was? John Nash is the main character in the film “A Beautiful Mind” which is a film directed by Ron Howard in 2001. This film was made to retell the story of John Nash this man and was made to be as accurate as possible, to help the audience understand the character's perspective. Films reviews and articles can determine whether they are as accurate as they are put out to be.

Due to his schizophrenia, Nash displays abnormal behaviors. There are four main criteria that is used to establish abnormal behavior. These four criteria are statistical infrequencies, violation of social norms, personal distress, and level of impairment (). I believe that John fits each of these criteria. The fist criteria that shown is statistical infrequencies. One of the main statistical infrequencies that John portrays is his excellence in math. While this may not be a big sign of schizophrenia, it is due to this mathematical excellence that his condition went unseen for such an extended period of time. Even in the film, his two colleagues knew that the chances of John being a code breaker for the government was unlikely they ignored it

Ron Howard’s A Beautiful Mind is a biographical drama that portrays the life story of John Forbes Nash, Jr. Nash begins his journey at Princeton University in 1947 as a mathematical prodigy. Although Nash is a mathematical genius, he harbors rather odd personality traits. Nash is considered, by his peers, to be socially-inept, awkward and a bit arrogant. However, this does not stop him from becoming close friends with his roommate Charles, a literature student. Nash’s main objective while at Princeton is to discover a revolutionary equation in mathematics through his fascination with geometrical patterns. His success in this accomplishment will eventually lead him to win the Nobel Peace Prize. After Nash graduates from Princeton he accepts

The movie A Beautiful Mind is based on a true life story of the genius mathematician John Forbes Nash who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. At the beginning of the film Nash is a bright smart man at university. His life seems normal as he is working and is a father and a husband. But as the film goes on we discover that many of the places and people and the events that offered were just illusions from him suffering from schizophrenia. If even showed that one of his best friends that seemed so real was just part one of his delusions.

In the movie “A Beautiful Mind” directed by Ronald William Howard, characterizes the story of John Nash, a brilliant mathematician, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. The movie is based of the true life story of John Forbes Nash, portrayed in the movie by Russell Crowe. John is a college student attending Princeton University and early in his career he made an astonishing discovery and which became internationally renowned. This lead to him winning the Nobel Prize during his late years. The movie depicts John as an awkward and socially-inept student, who spent a lot of time to discover a revolutionary equation in mathematics.

“Imagine if you suddenly learned that the people, the places, the moments most important to you were not gone, not dead, but worse, had never been. What kind of hell would that be?” This was the reality for John Nash, the main character, in A Beautiful Mind. Nash would learn that he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia later on in the film, not knowing that most of his time consumed was spent in hallucinations and delusions that he didn’t know weren’t real.

In the movie John Nash had a preconceived ideas that people didn’t like him, which contributed to his poor social skill. Nash also had grandiose personality which made him vulnerable to schizophrenia. He saw himself as the brightest student on campus and he wanted to become a famous mathtimatican. He spend most of his time in the library solving and developing new theories. Nash was often seen as outsider whenever he had out with colleagues.

Nash perceived Charles and Parcher just as he perceived his classmates and his wife. Additionally, when he was told about his hallucinations, he couldn’t help but reject them. The world of acceptance and importance had a better appeal than a world where he was pitied and was struggling in all aspects of his

The film I will be analyzing in this paper is A Beautiful Mind, a biographical look at the life of John Nash during a period of his life where he struggles with mental illness. The movie itself is based on the novel of the same name by Sylvia Nasar. Although John Nash is a real person who 's life is documented in his biography, I will be focusing my diagnosis solely on the events depicted in the film. John Nash is a gifted mathematician who has trouble with being social and forming close relationships. His mental state starts to slowly deteriorate beginning during his time studying at Princeton University on a scholarship. He falls into a dangerous world of spies and secret codes that exists only in his mind. Convinced his delusions are real, John 's life quickly spirals out of control. He is eventually given the diagnosis of schizophrenia and works to both regain his status in the academic world and deal with his illness. I personally agree with the in film diagnosis and believe John Nash was suffering from schizophrenia.