Why Is Walter White Breaking Bad

Walter White: The Selfish Villain
Sociopath, power hungry, determined, unforgiving, these are just a few words that describe Breaking Bad main character Walter White. Walter White is perceived as an antihero to some fans of the show. In an article titled “Stop calling Walter White an anti-hero” Kayla Upadhyaya states that she cringes every time she reads a tweet along the lines of “Heisenberg is such a boss!” (Upadhyaya, “Stop calling Walter White an anti-hero”). To my understanding a man who makes meth, sells it and will stop at nothing to weasel himself out of a situation for the safety of his own is far from being any type of hero and shouldn’t be glorified as a “boss”. Walter White is essentially evil. Todd VanDerWerff explains Walter
He is a murderer, many times over; he is a man who abuses his wife; and he is a force of fear for everyone who sees his true face. He is, for lack of a better word, Satan.” (VanDerWerff, “Breaking Bad Ended the Anti-hero Genre by Introducing Good and Evil”). Key word, Satan. Urban Dictionary defines an anti-hero as a flawed hero, and therefore, much more interesting then the more traditional heroes. They can be working on the side of good, but with a tragic flaw, or a horrible past, or for reasons that are selfish and not entirely "pure" (Urban Dictionary). Walter White definitely shows the selfish part of an anti-hero but doesn’t show much good, mainly cause he causes so much evil leaving me to believe he is more of a villain. At the start of the first season Walter is a Chemistry teacher who also works at a car wash. He has a fairly attractive wife who loves him, a nice house in a nice neighborhood, a son who looks up to him and a daughter on the way. His life isn’t perfect but it’s far from being terrible, of course that changes
This is a very realistic tactic that many higher up drug lords use in order to stash their money a very secretive way. Matthews states "They 're increasingly using trade-based laundering, where they 'll bring in cheap fabrics from Asia and sell those into the U.S., or bring them south to Mexico, and sell them for a much higher dollar value. They 're doing it through mining, construction equipment, quarter horses and gambling, casinos and a variety of different businesses." (Matthews, “Here’s what Breaking Bad gets right, and wrong, about the meth business”). Walter White is a very smart scientist; if you’ve seen the show you’ll know what I’m talking about. David Koepsell demonstrates his smarts for science in his book “Breaking Bad and Philosophy”. Koepsell uses Season Two episode “4 days out” to show off Walt’s smarts. He explains “Walt uses his understanding of chemistry to improvise a battery for their stalled vehicle, after Jesse demands that he think of something scientific.” (Koepsell, “Breaking Bad and Philosophy”). Walter White demonstrates his smarts for chemistry, so why is he using it for evil? Possibly because he is in fact,