The Stone Angel; Comparison

The film A Beautiful Mind and the novel The Stone Angel both have a very important and interesting theme: when life throws you a curveball, love will always be there. A Beautiful Mind is a film about the life of John Forbes Nash, a Nobel Prize winner who struggled through most of his adult life with schizophrenia. It is a true story, not only of one man's fight to overcome his own disability, but of …

…convinced that he must decode messages to save the country but with love from his wife and support from most of his colleagues, he too became a new person. As a result, both characters can leave the world in a state of peace knowing that in the end they succeeded in loving and being loved. The theme of love is truly a great one, as seen in both A Beautiful Mind and The Stone Angel.