Examples Of Superego In Breaking Bad

Walter struggles in understanding who he needs to be for his family. He wants to take his place as the patriarch of the family, but he feels incapable of providing them with the lifestyle they deserve. This concern is always at the forefront of his mind, and it affects his attitude and outlook. The anxiety that Walter is dealing with creates confrontation with his sister. He fears that her dream will interfere with his own agenda of making a better life for his family. The severity of the tension becomes more and more apparent with Walter’s unwise investment. Walter is dealing with the burden that he has let his family down, while Beneatha is flabbergasted by the reality that her future has been snatched away from her, and she had no control over it. While reflecting on the situation, Beneatha remarks, “ I sound like a human who just had her future taken right out of my hands! While I was sleeping….things were happening in this world that directly concerned me and nobody consulted me—they just went out and did things—and changed my life” (Hansberry 3.15). Walter and Beneatha’s individual issues with the outcome of the situation cause them to find fault with one another during a time when their family needs to pull together to get through such a financial hardship. Walter is in an emotional pit; his turning to alcohol and music instead of his family for support expands the

From Walter White’s aforementioned behaviour, he can be diagnosed with two disorders: narcissistic personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder. Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental condition in which people have an inflated sense of self importance, a deep need for excessive attention and admiration, troubled relationships, and a lack of empathy for others; behind a mask of extreme self confidence lies a fragile self-esteem (Mayo Clinic, 2017). This inflated sense of self importance was showcased when Walt believed that without himself involved, methamphetamine production would cease to exist; the truth was that several people had learned the formula and would be able to continue without his aid.

Breaking Bad is a TV show about a science instructor, Walter White, turning to cooking methamphetamine when he finds out that he has terminal cancer, so as to leave some legacy for his family. The show accompanies Walter as he changes from a compliant and empathetic father to a cold, merciless drug kingpin through the wrong decisions he makes in life. Vince Gilligan made the show with a dream of having the hero turn into the adversary as the show advances and to investigate the subject "actions have consequences." In giving Bryan Cranston a part as Walter White, Gilligan picked a performing artist whose livelihood bend dovetails uncannily with his character. As Walt changes from such a family man himself into a force eager executioner,

Regardless the person Walter currently is, through the small hints and flashback we get a sense that he is very passionate and energetic through his pursue for skateboarding and aspiration to travel. In addition to this, he also suffered the loss of his father at a young age, this turned out to be truly life changing. Due to this he had to take on financial responsibilities to support his family, so he took a job at Papa-John. It was not long before his amusing and entertaining lifestyle cease to exist, as his repetitive life began. He is a very humble and modest person so, he does not complain about lost opportunities; however, once he is given a task he is forced to take risks and his ability to problem solve and to make quick decisions really shows in his personality, Through the difficulties he has experienced in order to find the missing negative reveals his long lost passion for adventure and experience.

Walter begins to drink, stay away from home, and to constantly argue with his wife, Ruth. Walter's life is contrasted by the role of his recently widowed mother, who holds to more traditional values of acceptance of life's lot and of making the best of any situation. Walter Lee's "Mama" holds Walter's father up as an example of a man with pride and a man that, despite racial injustice in a dualistic society, worked hard to provide for his family. This adds to Walter's frustration. Walter now feels incapable and small in his mama's eyes.

Walter doesn't like his life, but he doesn't have the courage to change it, so when he sees people that are successful it makes him feel bad about himself. George especially affects him because he is black and Walter cannot blame society for his own failures. In consequence, Walter turns bitter and develops an overall abrasive personality, pushing his loved ones away and becoming an embarrassment to his

Ruth has a complicated fantasy, that in some ways is similar to Mama’s. Ruth not only wants to understand her husband and build a stronger relationship, but she also believes that finally owning a home, could solve a great deal of problems. Most adults could understand that financial insecurity can bring upon strain in a marriage, resulting in distrust and a hostile attitude towards one another. Ruth also begins to grow concerned as the play continues. She comments, “…Something is happening between Walter and me.

Lyden says, “The Gangster becomes a tragic hero in that he is doomed to be destroyed by the very [capitalist] system that has created him as a creature of greed and consumption; the fact that he employs criminal methods is incidental.” In the movie Breaking Bad, Walter Walt fit the description of the main character in a gangster film that Lyden provides. Walt who is a high school chemistry teacher, middle class level family, have lung cancer, close to death, and struggling to make more money to his family after he death. Walter white used his knowledge about chemistry to produce drug in a small truck and sell it to the gangster for profit to support his wife and children. He became greed and consumption to selling more drug, try to make as much as money he can, but of course he died and destroyed by the capitalist society like what Lyden describe in this paragraph.

The most prevalent of these is his desire to be important. Firstly, Walter wants to feel important amongst his family. This desire is apparent when Walter makes a big deal to Ruth and Mama that he feels like no one is acknowledging his ideas. And this desire is apparent when he talks to Mama about the men, his age, in those high end restaurant “making million dollar deals” while he is stuck driving a car around for a person who doesn’t care about him in the slightest. Walter wants to be the man in the restaurant making those deals because when a person is handling that kind of money, they are a very important person.

Hank is always seeking attention and demanded to be heard even if that makes him look bad in public places. Hank is very lonely; he has no friends or a romantic partner. It seems that he has filling his void with food and that is the true reason why he is at an unhealthy weight. Hank demonstrates that he is mistrustful during a date with Sally when he insults Sally’s profession by telling her that she rips off people by selling them insurance they don’t need. Hank is completely driven by the unconscious mind and he is unaware of the affect his personality is having on his social life.

Walter was a simple miner with simple needs and no motivation or want to advance, when he and Gertrude first met he had thick flowing black hair and a full beard and he also laughed a lot suggesting a happy, relaxed figure. He also portrayed himself as bold and a senior in the

In the diagnosis of sexual sadism, Hank suffers from extreme sexual fantasy, and his mother was the first to be the main object of those fantasies. It could also explain why majority of his type was petite blond and resembled his teenage daughter, or why he made his

Have you ever wondered why we do the things we do? What is it that’s pressing at the back of our minds, causing us to make entirely reckless or sometimes, incredibly moral decisions? O: Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, believed that there are three parts to our personality. First, in the innermost section, there's the id, the natural, savage and primitive part of us.

They control impulses, decisions, and reason(McLeod). William Golding uses Jack, Ralph, and Piggy, characters in his novel Lord of the Flies, to represent the complexity and conflict that occurs in the human psyche. Jack represents the id. The id is the impulsive section of our personality. It exists only on the subconscious level and

First of all, Hank does not let the little things bother him, or dictate his life. He understands that things happen on accident. Hank’s reaction after Dodger broke the window,