Walter White

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The television show I selected for this essay was “Breaking Bad” by Vince Gilligan. The show follows the life of a chemistry teacher named Walter White, and he had discovered that he had stage 3 lung cancer. Upon discovering that he has a death sentence, it propels him into a life of crime with his former student Jesse Pinkman; they disburse crystal meth on the streets to make sure that he could leave his family well of after his death. However, he eventually becomes power hungry and loses all the people he once cared about. As the show progresses, Walter White begins to characteristics that mirror those that Niccolo Machiavelli discusses in the book “The Prince”, these characteristics are usually referred to as Machiavellian character which means to be cunning, deceitful or unscrupulous. (sounds weird less words) Walter White displays a great amount of virtù and glory, traits that are very useful and important as stated by Machiavelli in “The Prince,” and through his examples of Francesco Sforza and Cesare Borgia. (if possible revise the sentence) Virtù is defined as talent, capacity, ability, natural genius one who overcomes. …show more content…

(what) Fortuna is defined as dumb luck, how things happen, fickle fortune. Walter White displays fortuna on season 1 episode 1 when he was driving the Recreational Vehicle through the desert in attempt to stay away from the “police”. This happen due to White making meth in the vehicle and to obscure the bodies of Emilio and his cousin, which he had poisoned with phosphine gas. Walter then parked the vehicle and stood in the middle of the road with a gun to confront the “police.” As the sirens got louder, he realized that it wasn’t the police and that it was firetrucks; he quickly hid his gun and moved to the side of the road. In addition, he did all of this while wearing a dress shirt, underwear and his

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