Suggestions for books to read with a particular theme. ?

Question

I would gladily accept a concept of anything where a person is loosing a grip on reality and/or fighting himself mentally. Please give as many as you can. Thanks.

Answer 1

hmmm maybe Julius Caesar by Shakespear. I love that book.

Plot: Julius Caesar has just became a dictator, the people of rome feels that he has abused of his power, as well as his closest friends who happen to be senators, they come up with a way to overthrow him. well i dont wanna give it all away but yah....haha its a good book but hard to understand so i would just go to Sparknotes.com

Answer 2

One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

Answer 3

So Much to Tell You by John Marsden

Letters from The Inside by John Marsden

Answer 4

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.

The main character Heathcliffe looses his senses due to his true loves death and begins to act inhumanely to other characters in the book including his own family.

Look it up on www.sparknotes.com to see if this plot/scheme is what you are looking for.

Another good famous piece of literature is Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It is about a man who commits a murder and almost gets away with it but his state of mind slowly kills him as he fights to get the horrible act he committed out of his head.  

Answer 5

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

(Pretty much anything by Chuck Palahnuik)

Sophie's Choice by William Styron

Answer 6

Hawthorne's The Scarlett Letter: The minister has a mental breakdown over guilt he suffers because of the baby situation...

Les Miserables: Jean Valjean has a constant struggle between what is right and wrong, and while he constantly lies and does things that wouldn't normally be thought of as acceptable, they are all done for the betterment of others. Also the police officer Javert has a breakdown over ValJean's plight -- he ends up killing himself over the idea that he's been doing wrong in chasing Valjean for so many years when Valjean made early mistakes, but changed drastically into a good person.

The Great Gatsby: Gatsby kinds of loses grip with himself over envy of a life he tries to attain but never can have the woman or the life he aspires to.

The Catcher in the Rye: Holden Caulfield is a perfect character example of someone who is "loosing a grip on reality AND fighting himself mentally."

Others:

The Stranger (by Alexander Camus)

Hamlet has this written all over it.

Don Quixote - he's lost grip of reality from the beginning and fighting the world and himself throughout the entire novel.

The Divine Comedy (Dante) -- a constant struggle with his surroundings (h**l, purgatory, paradise) and how they reflect on his own life.

Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)

1984 (George Orwell)

Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)

many of Faulkner's books...

This is a very popular theme... we could go on and on.