Good Vs. Evil In The TV Show: Walter White
ENGL106
4 October 2013
Breaking Good vs. Bad For anyone who has seen the series Breaking Bad, they know how difficult it can be to determine what side of the “Good vs. Evil” line that a character treads on. The main character Walter White treads that line like no other character on television ever has. In the show, Walter begins as a high school chemistry teacher and winds up a multi-millionaire, meth producer, and murderer, while still remaining a family man for a great majority of the series.
A key component in analyzing which side of the line Walter is on is the authority he possesses a different points in the series. By analyzing the following images, I will try to determine whether Walter’s increased authority turns him evil or if his scandalous acts give rise to …show more content…
Because this is not a scene from an episode, but rather fan art, it is full of visual devices. This image very clearly uses classification to separate the sides of good and evil. The people on the left are all involved with “Heisenberg”, Walter’s meth industry alter ego, while the right side is Walter’s family. Walter, or Heisenberg in this image, stands on the left to show that he is now on the evil side. Walt is also in front of everyone, showing how he has authority over everyone, including his employer, because of his ability to cook nearly pure methamphetamine. This authority ensures that the audience now views him on the evil side of the line. The placement of the bag of money also plays a key role in the image. It is clearly Walt’s as he is standing right next to it, but it is on the right half of the image. This works as a metaphor to show Walt’s connection back to his family and how he is doing it all to help them. This is not as obvious without really analyzing the image, which is why it is overpowered by the more obvious classification of the
4 October 2013
Breaking Good vs. Bad For anyone who has seen the series Breaking Bad, they know how difficult it can be to determine what side of the “Good vs. Evil” line that a character treads on. The main character Walter White treads that line like no other character on television ever has. In the show, Walter begins as a high school chemistry teacher and winds up a multi-millionaire, meth producer, and murderer, while still remaining a family man for a great majority of the series.
A key component in analyzing which side of the line Walter is on is the authority he possesses a different points in the series. By analyzing the following images, I will try to determine whether Walter’s increased authority turns him evil or if his scandalous acts give rise to …show more content…
Because this is not a scene from an episode, but rather fan art, it is full of visual devices. This image very clearly uses classification to separate the sides of good and evil. The people on the left are all involved with “Heisenberg”, Walter’s meth industry alter ego, while the right side is Walter’s family. Walter, or Heisenberg in this image, stands on the left to show that he is now on the evil side. Walt is also in front of everyone, showing how he has authority over everyone, including his employer, because of his ability to cook nearly pure methamphetamine. This authority ensures that the audience now views him on the evil side of the line. The placement of the bag of money also plays a key role in the image. It is clearly Walt’s as he is standing right next to it, but it is on the right half of the image. This works as a metaphor to show Walt’s connection back to his family and how he is doing it all to help them. This is not as obvious without really analyzing the image, which is why it is overpowered by the more obvious classification of the