anti hero-salter wide- breaking bad 24 hours-i have written the basic outline

Divya Aggarwal

Anti Heroes in Popular Television

Paper Title and Description

Chosen Media: Breaking Bad (TV Series)

Paper Title: The Transgressive Transformation of Walter White in Breaking Bad

This essay will explore the narrative journey of the protagonist Walter White in the television series, ‘Breaking Bad’ by examining the ‘Transgressive Transformation of Walter White.’ I will analyze this by looking at the ‘delicately balanced’ relationship ‘between crime and convention’, which provides viewers with a complex moral discourse about the social character of deviance, conformity and transgression. Furthermore the discourse will be developed by examining Walt’s decision to ‘Break Bad’ to maintain both a conventional and a criminal identity. I will analyze this in light with the employment of Walt’s strong narrative dialogue and the imagery used to create his ‘darker persona’ of Heisenburg.