Breaking bad is a television show that follows a chemistry teacher who lives in New Mexico with his life and son. The protagonist, Walter White , is diagnosed with stage 3 cancer early on in the series and is given only two years to live. In order to secure his families financial state, White decides to enter into the world of drugs and crime. The series goes on to explore the daily life of White and his right hand man, Jesse Pinkman, and all of their adventures as drug lords. The show also focuses heavily on White’s transition from normal family man to kingpin of the of the drug trade.
The story begins with Walt as the protagonist, but over the course of the series, you slowly start to watch him transform into the antagonist, exploring how his diagnosis will empower him to make his …show more content…
He finds himself starting to make decisions in the wake of this new information that his pre- cancer self would have never made, which makes for an interesting plot throughout the whole show. Rather than coming to terms with this impending death, he finds himself more alive than ever. Separated from the norms of society, and capable of crimes against other humans such as murder. As Walt moves from victim to victim, the viewer starts to realize the importance of survive at all costs mentality and is forced to question their own perception of the shows main character. The series drastically over exaggerates a cancer patient made noble through struggle by portraying a man betrayed by his own body who when becomes wiling to betray everything else life has given to him. A victim complex is something that many people tend to experience throughout the course of their
The story begins with Walt as the protagonist, but over the course of the series, you slowly start to watch him transform into the antagonist, exploring how his diagnosis will empower him to make his …show more content…
He finds himself starting to make decisions in the wake of this new information that his pre- cancer self would have never made, which makes for an interesting plot throughout the whole show. Rather than coming to terms with this impending death, he finds himself more alive than ever. Separated from the norms of society, and capable of crimes against other humans such as murder. As Walt moves from victim to victim, the viewer starts to realize the importance of survive at all costs mentality and is forced to question their own perception of the shows main character. The series drastically over exaggerates a cancer patient made noble through struggle by portraying a man betrayed by his own body who when becomes wiling to betray everything else life has given to him. A victim complex is something that many people tend to experience throughout the course of their