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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis is a study about the main character?s schizophrenia and his efforts to
overcome it in Sylvia Nasar?s A Beautiful Mind. In this study, the writer will
focuses on the kinds of schizophrenia the main character is suffering from and
how he overcomes his schizophrenia. The writer will use the psychological
approach and the theory of schizophrenia as tools to analyze the main character?s
schizophrenic condition. Generally, there are five kinds of schizophrenia and
each kind has its own symptoms. In analyzing this novel, the writer analyzes the
symptoms of the main character?s schizophrenia which lead him to a certain kind
of schizophrenia. Moreover, the writer analyzes the efforts that the main
character does to overcome his schizophrenia. The writer finds that the main
character begins to hear things that do not exist and starts to have hallucinations
along with delusions. These delusions and hallucinations lead him in doing
peculiar things. Nevertheless, he then realizes that he suffers from psychological
problem and he is trying to overcome it. Fortunately, with the help of his
willingness to seek for treatment, his efforts to think rationally, and his self-assertion,
he can struggle with his schizophrenic condition and miraculously
recover. In the final part of this study, the writer can conclude that the main
character?s behavior and attitudes visualize the paranoid schizophrenia?s
characteristics. The writer also concludes that the main character does several
efforts to recover from schizophrenia.