Breaking Bad Character Traits

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When you hear someone describe another person as an ‘entrepreneur’, the first thing most likely to come to your mind is someone such as Warren Buffet or Mark Zuckerberg, a Silicon Valley mogul or an old oil tycoon like John D. Rockefeller. Rarely would the first image be drug kingpins such as Al Capone or ‘El Chapo’ Guzman, but these men, along with many others, have made Forbes lists as some of the richest businessmen and entrepreneurs, next to icons like Bill Gates and Larry Ellison. In the crime drama television series Breaking Bad, which premiered in 2008, Walter White portrays an entrepreneur who gains his wealth through the use of his savvy entrepreneurship and relationship skills in a successful meth-making and selling operation.
Breaking Bad starts with the main character, Walter White, a genius high school chemistry teacher and part-time worker at a car wash living his dull, daily …show more content…

Walter is next diagnosed with lung cancer and given very minimal time to live, around two years. Walter feels as if he has nothing to lose and decides to head out on a journey to ensure the future of his wife, disabled son and baby daughter. Walt uses his chemistry background, his DEA agent brother-in-law and a former student who is methamphetamine addict and producer to learn the process to make and distribute meth. He then works to perfect his process and his product rises above everyone else’s in the region, bringing fame under the false name ‘Heisenberg.’ The series revolves around conflicts in both his business and personal lives as he works to eliminate opponents, forms business partnerships and hides his secrets from his family and the public. The series ends with Walt’s death, but he does not die before he saves up millions of dollars to pass on to his son and daughter.
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