Breaking Bad and Walter White Essay

I now understand the sociological components that are at work in his decision making. Also, I now see how these sociological components influence and interact with each other. For example, Walt’s social stratification, influences his choice towards deviant behavior. His social networks aided his deviant behavior, but he also faced stratifications for his actions. I learned that there are a lot of factors that influenced what he did, and I see that its deeper than just the television show, these elements are embedded in our society and the same factors can influence our

Walt was good at his job and doing well to perform his duties, but then few things happened around him, which changed his whole life. The first thing or event was corruption, which he was seeing around him in his company. The second thing was to see the superiors also doing corruption and looting money from the company accounts. And third thing was customers of the company. He saw that even customers don’t pay up their money to the company, but still company is bearing them, so he thought if customers are free to do so, then why he cannot do so. He saw that rules are being broken everywhere, so he thought to do so as well. These three events became the major factors for Walt to think about committing a crime

Walter himself is obsessed with pushing the limits of science and changing the truth of reality. The Government incarcerates Walter in a mental institution due to an accident at his lab. When the show begins and Olivia and Peter remove Walter from the institution, he is a very different person. He does not regret what he has done, but he is more considerate with how he proceeds. This change is partially due to time and partially due to brain damage.

A man wearing nothing but his underwear and a gas mask swerving his RV down the sandy highway of the New Mexico desert. In the RV , there is a Teenager with a gas mask passed out in the front seat and two men dead on the floor of the RV. The RV has crashed into the ditch and the driver who is wearing a gas mask,Walter White, climbs out gasps for air. He put on a shirt that was hanging from the side of the window and ran back into the RV to grab a video camera, wallet and a gun. He then records a video message to his family saying that he loves them and saying goodbye. meanwhile ,he heard the sirens approaching so placed the video camera and wallet down side by side and walks into the road with a gun in hand. Through the camera angles , changing of behavior and family interactions Walter White, who is diagnose with cancer, changes from a healthy dad and husband to a dangerous meth cooker.

The environment around Walter has led to a tremendous change in his personality. The first time that Walter heard about the meth business was when he saw “a news report showing a large amount of money recovered from one of Hank's drug busts”. The money makes him take the “previous offer to go on a ride-along as Hank and his partner Steven Gomez raid a known meth lab”( Pilot (Breaking Bad)). In Albuquerque, there are many crimes happening in the shadows that not many people know about them. Most crimes are done because of greed or revenge, but for Walter it began because of worrying. He wanted to make sure that his family would have enough money to live on because he didn’t want them to continue struggling with the cost of his chemotherapy after he’s gone.

A meth cook hero? After a middle class, high school chemistry teacher gets knowledge of his death, he turns to his knowledge of chemistry to climb the ranks of the Albuquerque, NM Crystal Meth syndicate and become a master Meth cook. After a ride along with his brother, a Drug Enforcement Administration Agent, and learning of all the money to be made, Walter White chose to try his luck. Breaking Bad, a television series on AMC, is a strange twist on American family drama in that it adds the element of crime. Breaking Bad fits under the Crime-Drama genre because it features an average family’s struggles, entangled into the husband’s secret life of criminal activity.

The life of Bryan Cranston started out pretty rough with his parents getting divorced when he was eleven and having to move in with his grandparents. He got into stage work when he had to do an extra elective with his course work at the L.A.P.D.’s Law Enforcement Explorer Program. He built up a career with ads and show bit spots. After starring in Malcom in the Middle he had to find a new gig and that’s when he became the one and only Walter White in Breaking Bad.

​On Walt’s birthday, Walt’s brother-in-law Hank, a DEA agent, tells Walt of his most recent drug bust. Hank casually tells him they recovered seven hundred thousand dollars’ worth of drugs and money from the scene. The day after his diagnosis, Walter yells at his boss at the car wash for making him clean one of the student’s cars. The student takes a picture of his teacher cleaning

When Jesse finds out that Walter manipulated him in order to help heighten his power, he teams up with Hank Schrader (Walter’s brother-in-law who’s in the DEA) in order to bring Walt down. When Walt is discovered, he escapes and relocates to New Hampshire. Close to a year later, Walt returns to Albuquerque in order to say goodbye one last time and to save Jesse from his terrible fate as a slave to make meth for the rival drug dealers the Nazis, as he is the only one, besides Walt, who can make almost pure meth. The final minutes of the series start with Walter saying goodbye to his wife, telling her the truth as to why he continued in the drug trade. “I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And I was really…I was alive” (Genius). Walt then helps Jesse escape by killing his captives; they both then part ways after the bloodbath is over. Jesse then drives away

Walter’s dadness adds comic relief to balance out his descent into darkness. Even at the height of his power as Heisenberg, Walter is still not portrayed as alluring. He doesn’t take up with a hot younger female to symbolize his kingpin status. This trope is subtly but deliberately teased in the one on ones he has with the vice principal and Flynn’s school. In that scene there seems to be sexual tension, but when walter acts in it, he is immediately rebuffed. Several times, after a successful deals, Walter initiates sex with skyler because he’s aroused by his own power, not because she is. After his altercation with Tuco, he comes home and sexually assaults Skyler. In our visual culture, sex is ofeten protrayed as another dimention of power. If a man is powerful he must also exercise power over women. So at times breaking bad shows walt acting out htis idea that our society has about poweful men and sexuality, but it doesn’t work-- the show refused to glamorize walter or excuse this

Since the show is centered on Walter and his transformation, it “rarely evinces any curiosity about Skyler’s inner life, apart from how it affects Walt” (Bowie). Since the show does not allow Skyler to have a fully fleshed out character, it becomes impossible for the audience to sympathize with her. Furthermore, although Breaking Bad explores deep moral dilemmas within its characters, demanding the audience to question where the line of right and wrong is drawn, this kind of agency is only given to the male characters (Bowie). Thus, due to this representation, the audience judges Skyler by a different moral standard than they judge Walter (Gunn). However, Skyler still remains a much more complex character than is regularly seen on television, since usually representations of “strong women” are “one-dimensional, unrealistic clichés” (Truitt), and so she is thus a positive representation of a

Ana Montes ENGL 0190 WP #2 Mrs. Ziegel Breaking Bad is an award winning crime drama series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. In the beginning of the series the main character, Walter White, teaches high school chemistry. When Walter started feeling sick and bleeding when coughing, he decided to go to the hospital and was later diagnosed with lung cancer. Without his friends and family’s knowledge he turns to selling crystallized methamphetamine with former student, Jesse Pinkman. He does this in order to financially support his family in the future after he dies.

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Lyden describes the protagonist in gangster films as a “ruthless criminal who rises to the top of an organization through his unstoppable desire for success at any price.” Walter White fits this description, maybe not so much in the first season of Breaking Bad but as the series progresses we see his moral compass become increasingly skewed and his actions grow worse and worse. At the beginning of the series he is family man, a high school teacher, a pretty good guy but as his involvement in the drug world continues he becomes a hardened criminal who commits morally despicable acts such as murder.

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