THE STRANGE CASE OF WALTER WHITE AND HEISENBERG
THE STRANGE CASE OF WALTER WHITE AND HEISENBERG
Secondary Characters
Saul Gus Mike
The Doppelganger/Double
Walter White
Heisenberg
Who is Walter White? • Intelligent, talented
Chemist• Mild-mannered• Family Man• Dissatisfied,
depressed High School Chemistry teacher• Financially unstable• Afraid of life
Who is
Heisenberg?• Persona Walt takes when he enters to drug trade world
• Originally starts off as a “cook” for meth
• Creates the purest form of meth ever seen
• Walt tries to keep Heisenberg secret from his family
• Characterized by his pork pie hat, bald head and sunglasses in the earlier episodes.
• Ruthless, filled with Hubris, unrelenting
Walt= Weak Heisenberg=Strength
The Heisenberg Principal
Secondary Support
“The transformation of Walter White into Heisenberg undergoes several changes in look and attitude. Walter White’s choice of Heisenberg’s name can surely be attributed to his will to wear the mask of a revolutionary scientific genius” (60).
“The name of Heisenberg is a guarantee of the complexity of reality. The disciplinary institutions that pretend to be in control cannot have total access to the truth of human lives. The observed subject has traits that make him/her ontologically impossible to be scrutinized in all of his/her intentions and will” (60).
Highlights of Research
Mirrors, Reflection, & Dualities in Filming
Mirrors and Reflection
Walt and Gus
How Does Walt Relate to other
Doppelgangers/Doubles?
• Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
• Narrator & Tyler Durden
Modern Day Doppelgänger
Walter White Don Draper
Brodesco, Alberto. “Heisenberg: Epistemological Implications of a Criminal Pseudonym.” Breaking Bad: Critical Essays on the Contexts, Politics, Style, and Reception of the Television Series. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2014. Print.
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