Doppelganger Breaking Bad

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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