Sentence examples for is driven to madness from inspiring English sources

Banquo's ghost haunts Macbeth, and Lady Macbeth is driven to madness by her guilt.

Sure, there's a nebulous sense that Olivia is driven to madness not simply by lust but by her belief in Fitz's political abilities, but whatever qualities of leadership she sees in him have not translated to the viewer.

Some say that the daughter of the great Irish novelist was driven to madness by her father's disapproval of her relationship with his protégé, young Sam Beckett.

Given the virgin birth angle and the triumphal finale -- in which Mussolini and Hitler are driven to madness by American fecundity -- it's more likely that he wanted to make a film in which gleeful blasphemy is so entwined with piety and patriotism that all the moralists could do was gurgle and clutch their chests.

Some starved to death and some were driven to madness.

In Kōjin (1912 13; The Wayfarer) the hero is driven to near madness by his sense of isolation; in Kokoro (1914) the hero kills himself; and in Mon (1910; "The Gate") the hero's inability to gain entrance to the gate of a Zen temple to seek religious solace is a frightening symbol of frustration, isolation, and helplessness.

In the novel, Uncle Petros is driven to despair and ultimately madness by his failure to prove Goldbach's conjecture.

The sheriff of a small Wisconsin town is driven to the brink of madness by a crisis brought on by twin plagues: a diphtheria epidemic and advancing brush fires that threaten the lives of the quarantined townspeople.

​Pi is a black-and-white psychological thriller in which Max Cohen, an unreliable narrator and a gifted mathematician, is driven to the brink of madness after discovering a 216-digit number that various other characters consider a key to manipulating the stock market or unlocking the secrets of the Torah.

As hunger precipitates the family's descent into madness, Lisa's father is driven to shoot the dog-man for food.

It is a first person narration by the female patient herself with the structure being very loose and thus making it look more like a stream of consciousness which becomes more complex as the text develops and the woman is being driven to absolute madness.