Character Analysis
(Avoiding Spoilers)
Overview… a mathematics student who takes a liking to her brilliant professor, John Nash. They eventually fall in love and get married. But John’s incredible ability for abstract thought comes with its own pitfalls and secrets. Roadblocks to their happiness abound, many of them springing from John’s mind.
Personality… devoted, trusting, and protective. Alicia will do anything within her power to help John continue his work, even as that work becomes more and more mysterious and, by John’s estimation, conspiratorial. Alicia desires only a happy life with her husband, but she will have to fight for it, constantly putting her willpower to the test.
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At Princeton University, John Nash struggles to make a worthwhile contribution to serve as his legacy to the world of mathematics. He finally makes a revolutionary breakthrough that will eventually earn him the Nobel Prize. After graduate school he turns to teaching, becoming romantically involved with his student Alicia. Meanwhile the government asks his help with breaking Soviet codes, which soon gets him involved in a terrifying conspiracy plot. Nash grows more and more paranoid until a discovery that turns his entire world upside down. Now it is only with Alicia's help that he will be able to recover his mental strength and regain his status as the great mathematician we know him as today.
