Doppelganger Breaking Bad

1. THE STRANGE CASE OF WALTER WHITE AND HEISENBERG

2. Secondary Characters Saul Gus Mike

3. The Doppelganger/Double Walter White Heisenberg

4. Who is Walter White? Intelligent, talented Chemist Mild-mannered Family Man Dissatisfied, depressed High School Chemistry teacher Financially unstable Afraid of life

5. 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

6. Walt= Weak Heisenberg=Strength

7. The Heisenberg Principal

8. 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).

9. Highlights of Research Mirrors, Reflection, & Dualities in Filming

10. Mirrors and Reflection

11. Walt and Gus

12. How Does Walt Relate to other Doppelgangers/Doubles? Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde Narrator & Tyler Durden

13. Modern Day Doppelgänger Walter White Don Draper

14. 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. Works Cited and an Awesome photo