Money. Money is the
driving force in the television series Breaking Bad. Money is one of the most common themes in the
series. Walter needs money to pay his
medical bills, initially. Jesse needs
money because… well he needs it. This
driving force for money, this need for money is a reflection of society and the
decisions we make.
Money is the
driving force for many of our decisions.
We choose to get a job, in order to make money. The reason most of us college students are in
college, is to be able to acquire higher paying jobs. I can personally say that I’m not in college
to hang up a degree on my wall that says that I double majored in Government
and History. I’m in college to try and
get a higher paying job when I get out.
My decision to go to college, is fuelled by my desire to receive
decently sized, if not large, paychecks.
I’m in college to make money.
Walter and Jesse are in the drug business to make money. Our end goals are the same. Our method of getting there is
difference. That’s the only difference
between me and Walter or Jesse.
In the first
episode we see Walter get diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. He has one to two years at the most to
live. So he decides to enter the meth
business as a way of making money. His
desires, though, as to why he enters the drug business is a mystery. He is closed and does not divulge much, if
anything, of what he’s thinking. The
show leaves you puzzled as to why a high school chemistry teacher would just
suddenly turn to a life of crime. In
later episodes, you begin to see that “too much money, ain’t enough money” for
Walter. The business gets riskier and
bigger, he puts his own family in jeopardy.
But he’s willing to do it all for the money.
Money is the
driving force behind this series. It is
the driving force behind the main characters’ decisions. This is how Jesse and Walter are just like me
and probably everybody else in the class.
This is the economic issue at large.
We desire money. It’s a fact of
life.
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