A Beautiful Mind

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Kindness has the ability to shape people into compassionate human beings. The lack of kindness can debilitate a person's ability to determine their future. The lack of kindness destroys the humanity, it can push people over the edge, where they are no longer in control. Eventually the lack of control, suppresses the ability to determine destiny. In the film a Beautiful Mind, the protagonist John Nash lost the ability to determine his destiny. Due to his mental illness, his wife had called the psychiatrist to help him, she became the one who started to determine his future. John Nash was a brilliant mathematician, he had gone to Princeton on a the prestigious Carnegie scholarship, that happened to be shared with James Hanson. Sharing the …show more content…

John had began to believe he was contracted by the CIA to uncover secret messages from the russians th their sleeper agents in the US. John was not in control of his future, his mind was overtaken by an illness that prohibited him from being decisive. John no longer had the ability to determine his destiny, his illness was now determining how his life was. When he first met Alicia, his wife, he was astonished that someone would treat him with such respect and kindness, this is why in the beginning of their relationship his alternate reality was less pronounced. As they progressed hi schizophrenia was more obtrusive, leading Alicia to call a physciatrist. She was now controlling his destiny, trying to stop the hallucinations. His treatment of insulin injections, left him with nightmares, he would secretly not take his medication because he did not trust them. The lack of trust was matured by the lack of sympathy and benevolence. His hallucination took over, he almost let his baby drown as he thought his fabricated friend Charles would. His ability to determine his future was slowly dissipating. Nash eventually realized it was all fake after shoving Alica and the baby out of the way from Parcher. Alicia saw no one there, leading to Nash’s …show more content…

He went back to Princeton where, James Hanson allowed him to come back. John would study in the library, where he met a group of students, that looked up to him. One student said that he wanted to be like Nash in the sense of coming up with an original idea for his thesis. This newfound respect that Nash was experiencing helped him ignore is hallucinations and live his life the way he wanted it to. He was reinstated as a professor, and year later was up for a nobel peace prize. The compassion that John received, helped him to determine his destiny, he was able to make decisions that would open up his life. John was a respected man, this is shown in the pen ceremony. The pen ceremony shows how a little respect helped him reach his goals in fulfilling his destiny that he

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