A Beautiful Mind

Scholars,
You were all brilliant last night. You came up with ideas I didn't so not a lot of this is original.
After cogitating on what was said, here are my conclusions.
Protaganist: John Nash
Antagonist: Nash's delusions
Inciting Incident: meeting and talking to his first known delusion, his roommate Charles
Climax: deciding to no longer talk to his delusions (his wife's willingness to help him even
when he refused medical treatment and indicating that he should look for the answer
in his heart and not in his mind helped him to reach this climax)
Denouement: includes interacting effectively with students beginning with the first guy who
approached him in the library
Thesis: Logic is in your heart, not in your mind (or only in love can any logical reason be
found or you can't find the answer in your mind)

I don't think it was the author's intent, but I think an interesting parallel can be drawn between John Nash and Nebuchadnezzar. Both were arrogant and proud. Both went crazy or lost touch with reality. Once each became humble, his sanity returned. Nash first humbled himself when he was willing to return to the Princeton campus and ask his former archrival to be allowed to hang around. Admittedly his sanity didn't completely return, but he was able to live in reality and not let his delusions control him. (He did also take newer medications.) His pride and hunger to gain recognition are an important part of the story even though they aren't part of the analysis above. There was an obvious and remarkable transformation from Nash's initial pride to his final humility.