Personality Disorders affect the way an individual thinks and feels about oneself and others, significantly and adversely affecting their functioning in many aspects of life (APA, 2013). One type, Antisocial Personality Disorder, or ASPD, is defined as a “pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others” (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Often, there is a lack of right and wrong, criminal history, and impulsive or aggressive behavior -- actions that harm or lack consideration for the well being of others (Stassen, 2011). Psychopathy, a subtype of ASPD, is characterized by a lack of remorse or guilt about their actions in addition to demonstrating antisocial behaviors (Dryden-Edwards, Stöppler 2014). The …show more content…
From the very beginning, the audience can see that Walter is struggling with feelings of inadequacy, and stagnation. Society implies that men of Walter’s age should happily married and employed, providing for their families and creating or nurturing things that will outlast them.
Just as electrons change energy levels and molecules change bonds, receiving the news that one has terminal lung cancer has the potential to transform an individual’s frame of mind. This is precisely what happens to Walter White; the news that he must-- on top of everything else-- battle stage three carcinoma is the catalyst in Walt’s typical meek demeanor, and decides that he must go to extremes to generate a nest egg to leave behind for his pregnant wife and son with cerebral palsy. After accompanying his DEA brother-in-law to a methamphetamine lab raid, he encounters a former student, Jesse Pinkman, whom he comes to find out deals and manufactures meth. Walt decides that the best way to develop a significant inheritance is to begin drug making and distribution himself -- and enlists in the help of Jesse through blackmail to do so. Operating out of a used, 1986 Winnebago in the desert, the pair eventually come to make the purest strain of crystal meth (CM) on the market.
Walter makes it clear to Jesse that his intent for all of this debauchery is solely for his family. He will make enough money to provide his family with 20 years of fiscal security--
Antisocial personality disorder is a disregard for others rights and violating theses rights. This disorder starts as a child to people who carry this disorder portray the characteristics of irritability, aggressiveness, lack of remorse, and irresponsibility. A psychopath falls under the umbrella of antisocial personality disorders. A psychopath is a person with a personality disorders which is inherited from their parents at birth. Flashes of these inherited factors show and happen in the child upbringing this includes torture animals at a young age, playing weird dark games as a kid, or ripping heads of toys. A perfect example of a Psychopath is Edmund Kemper. A man who showed his psychopath tendencies at a young age that grew into to him becoming a serial killer.
Because of this new depression, Walter starts to get himself wasted every day. He hasn’t been showing up to work, and faces the prospect of losing his job. Mama, realizing the potentially catastrophic effect this can have on her family, must intervene. She gives her son the one thing he has always wanted, power. She gives him the remaining $6,500 to use as he wishes (except for the $3,000 to Beneatha’s continued
Walter was upset when he heard his mother had spent the insurance money on the house and thought it wasn't fair that Beneatha got some of it for her medical school while he got nothing for his liquor store business. Lena, who always wanted her son to be happy, trustingly gave the rest of the insurance money to Walter. Holding the money in his hands, Walter thanked his mother and appreciated the trust she had in him. Walter then gave the money to his buddies to help him getting his liquor license without realizing that they betrayed him. As his dream crumbled to pieces, Walter was regret that he didn't listen to his mother, wife and sister.
Walter comes up with another plan to take money from Linder, president of the Clyburn home association. Earlier, he offered the family money not to move in their neighborhood but Walter declined. However, after his devastating loss, he called up Linder to make a deal to get more money. Walter Younger’s defining moment was when Mama told him he was not a man and his father would not be pleased with his decision. This seemed to cause something to rise in him to change his perspective on
The Younger family has not been able to experience the finer things in life, and Walter, being the authoritative male figure, feels he is at fault knows that a change is needed. Walter’s solution is to use his father’s life insurance money to fund the acquiring of a liquor license. The women of the household are always ordering around Walter. It’s Ruth, Mama, or Beneatha telling him how to run things, and when he gets a chance to take the initiative by using the money to invest in his liquor license, his friend betrays him, and his dreams are crushed.
Every time he would mention it, everybody would just brush him off like he was crazy. When his father died, his mother got his life insurance check that's when Walter found out he wanted to take all of the money and use it for the liquor, she wanted to use some of it for Beneatha medical school Mama said that she would give Walter money after she put money down for a house and money for his sister’s medical school. Walter and his mother had an argument about money
Walter’s determination for him wanting to achieve his long time dreams can be seen as a combination of selfishness, greed, and love for
Walter urges his mother to give him the money from their father's life insurance. With this money he intended to help the family by earning all the money in the house, getting them out of poverty by buying a liquor store. “Is it all gone? Son, I gave you sixty-five hundred dollars. Is it all gone?” and Walter replied, “Yesss! All of it… It’s all gone…” (II.ii.129), but his actions made the family get set back even more because he lost the sixty-five hundred dollars. This happened because of his selfishness. He always wanted to be the big
When Walter loses the money, his views change. He convinces himself that a man doesn’t need morals, and that the only thing that matters is how
He didn’t have the most normal life growing up, he didn’t do very well in school and was always getting in to trouble. He just could not find his grove and when he thinks he finally finds it something happens at home and just like that it’s gone. One disaster after another Walter is put in a tight spot. Things never go his way. Just when Walter sets his heart on being a poet and saves up enough money to by his own typewriter, he learns his mother lost all the money gambling.
The meaning of Walter and Jesse’s relationship engages the view of success. In order to be successful it is best to get involve in a partnership. For example, classmates, relatives, and business partners. “Apple, eBay, and Twitter -- were built by multiple leaders with productive relationships.” (Shontell). The messages that Breaking Bad fans going into business might get is to get involve in a partnership to climb up the ladder of success. In a world where the most successful men got their titles thanks to their great partnership in business it will be understandable to work together, or would they prefer to work alone. Something to change about those who prefer working alone minds is this, team work gets individuals far in life, just look
He becomes obsessive about the insurance money and he changes throughout the story. He learns from his mistakes and realizes what life is really about. Walter is the man of the house in his family, and has to deal with the poverty that his family goes through. His father has died and he wants his family to have a better life just like his father.
He is envious of the people in the establishment who can afford a higher standard of life, while he is stuck in a two room kitchen apartment, where they must share one bathroom with rest of the floormates. Walter hate seeing man around his age or even younger than him having such a lavish lifestyle because he believes that he would gotten the same type of opportunity if it was not for the color of his skin. Seeing his conversations with his mom, the readers can see that Walter feels that he is hopeless in the American
The episode of Breaking bad that I am writing on is episode one. It starts off by showing us Walter on his 50th birthday. It progresses to walk us through his daily life, which includes a pregnant wife, a son with cerebral palsy and working two jobs yet still struggling to make ends meet. Shortly after he finds out that he has lung cancer, his dilemma, he can’t afford to pay for it. He ends up running into a former student who is a drug dealer and they hatch a plan to cook and sell meth. Walters reason for doing so, it is to pay for cancer treatment
Walter starts off with a daydream about piloting an SN202 hydroplane for the Navy, through one of the worst storms in twenty years of history. This shows that Walter wants to be essential to something important. In another daydream, Walter is a world renowned surgeon getting praise from another highly skilled doctor, Dr. Prichard-Mitford. Even Dr. Renshaw is there and asks Walter ot perform a surgery after he temporarily fixes the anesthetizer with a piece of a fountain pen. The last daydream that Walter has, he is a captain in the war against Germany, taking on a suicide mission to pick up heavily needed ammo. All of this must certainly prove, if anything, that Walter has the urge to be wanted and finds that in his daydreams. This then further distances himself from society and those around him in the