The television show Fringe focuses on the advancement of science. It follows Agent Olivia Dunham, Peter Bishop, and Dr. Walter Bishop as they react to macabre and unimaginable events. They rely on Walter to figure out the science behind the event and to find an answer as a way to prevent additional loses and catastrophe. Walter is quixotic because he is an impulsive and unpredictable scientific visionary and almost all of his theories are impractical. 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. …show more content…
This causes him to make mental jumps when working on a case and as a result, not everything he says makes sense. Walter easily becomes obsessed with a piece of music or food or a location because he is trying to remember something that someone removed from his mind. Walter is easily irritable because of his extreme intelligence and the fact that no one quickly believes him. Once he has the solution he is adamant that he is right which he generally is, leading to him rudely arguing with Olivia and Peter until they take him seriously. Walter is relentless and loyal. In every case, he never stops searching for a solution, doing everything he can think of to try to save people. If his plan involves a dangerous role, he likely will not tell anyone and carry out that role alone. Walter is not usually very courteous towards other people. His intentions are to help people but he often overlooks simple common
She is rightfully frustrated with Walter because he has not provided any help to her in this tough time. Ruth influences Walter and their relationship by discussing it with him and Mama. Ruth really wants the best for Walter for him to accomplish his dreams and get them a better life. Over the course of the story, Walter does change as a character, finally realizing that his family is most important. His relationship with Ruth develops because they finally get a new house and no longer have to get rid of the baby.
Walter is a man just like many others; he has a job, a family, and he also has ambitions in life just like anybody else. Walter is not the only one in his family that has ambitions, almost everybody else in his family have ambitions as well. These ambitions created conflicts between family members after they all found out that Walter's mother (Lena) have been settled by an insurance company for the death of her husband, and she is about to obtain a large sum of money.
Walter White was a good man by American society’s standards, he studied at California Technical Institute and obtained a degree in chemistry. Through Walter’s works, he was awarded with a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his achievements in the determination of crystal structures. He met his wife a few years later and had his first born son. Even though Walter had great success working in chemistry, he became a high school teacher, a job that did not pay enough and was driven to work a second job in a carwash. A day after Walter had turned 50, he collapsed while working at the car wash, an ambulance was called and he was taken reluctantly
Many of my friends say that they hated Walter as a character. Admittedly, Walter was very rude and blinded by money. However, I felt that I could relate to him in the sense that he had a dream and a goal that he would not stop until he achieved. He was still reckless due to his ambition, which could lead to some bad decisions. For example, when Walter was suppose to
Just as Dmitry, Walter has found a way to escape reality and forget about the
Walter's frustration festers and his anger turns inward towards his family who, in Walters eyes, do not understand him. Walter's family members do understand him and they also want to amass material dreams, but Walter's family members know that it is going to take work to get there.
He goes from quiet, self conscious, and socially awkward individual who is belittled by those around him, and becomes inept by fairly mundane tasks to a bold, decisive, skilled men who take charge and impress everyone around them, just like he had one envisioned in his daydreams. This can be seen when Walter walks into Life Magazine at the end of the movie and hands over the lost picture to his ex-boss, Todd Maher. Walter tells Todd off, and walks out of the office with his head held up
In the second season, Walter witnessed his partner Jesse's girlfriend, who was unconscious and drugged, choking on her own vomit but he did nothing to try to save her. He did nothing to stop her death, as he viewed her simply as someone in his way and someone who held back Jesse. From the viewers' first impression of him, it is unimaginable to think he would be capable of murdering, putting children in harm's way, or being violent toward his own wife and family. His actions show the typical behavior of a
Although he is more than qualified to do this, he decided to manufacture illegal drugs. This led him led to commit many immoral crimes and constantly endanger his family because he couldn’t be satisfied with a job where he would need to work under someone else. Walter’s intentions may have been heroic, but he is still a villain because of his selfish pride, which ultimately caused him put his entire family in terrible danger and to lose the respect of everyone close to him.
Throughout Walter’s life, he will work hard to improve his family and will achieve what he dreams of wanting but there are somethings that will stop him from doing those things.
His actions are no longer in his “own place” as described by his sister, but set in reality, and his awareness is on the present. In the beginning, Walter had visions of confrontation with bosses, superhero fight scenes, and traveling to the Arctic. But after his transformation, he defends himself to the helicopter pilot, he travels to Iceland, and he vindicates himself against the manager’s accusations. Being in the shadow of Sean, allowed Walter to relive the situations that can showcase all the qualities he was beginning to acquire. Through the sustained transformation of Ben Stiller’s character, Stiller was able to impart his insight on purpose, that is, in order to be independently assertive to flourish into our sought-after character, we must first identify who we want to be, qualities that we want, within others.
In his real life, Walter Mitty is incapable and insecure. For instance, when Walter is trying to park his car, he isn’t able to so the parking attendant has to help him. Walter is incapable of doing even the simplest things in life, like parking a car. And he needs help doing these things in his life. In addition, as Walter is driving with his wife she is shouting at him and telling him what to do, and Walter doesn't fight
Some people might say that Walter is normal, everybody forgets things and to give him a break. But this is also shown in the story:“ he hated those weekly trips to town--he was always getting something wrong. ”(Thurber 2) This quote is indicating that he forgets things frequently. This is due to him daydreaming a great deal over the day and forgetting about his real
It is fascinating to see how Walter’s character grows over the course of the film. When Tarek is first arrested, Walter is determined to get him out and has confidence in his ability to do so because his naïve understanding of the severity of the situation. The clearest example of Walter feeling powerless, occurs when Walter wants to know where Tarek was sent. In this scene Walter is visibly powerless and has no control over the outcome. Tarek’s moment of powerlessness occurs when he is taken into custody in the train station without the ability to defend his right to be there, or explain that he has done nothing wrong. As a viewer, this scene was impactful as it showed how he was marginalized and oppressed simply based on his race.
Walter quickly turned around and started following the people who had killed his brother. He was burning with anger, and would not stop until he caught up to them. The assassins were very fast and agile. Walter tried to keep up with them but was slowly falling behind. Then he noticed an emblem on their clothes. It looked Like the scar he had on his head. He kept running and his vision kept getting darker. He slowly started to stumble and collapse on the side of the road.