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Rating: ABOUT WALTER WHITE.
Anger, fear, disgust, happiness, sadness, surprise, anxiety, love, depression, disdain, pride, shame, and envy.
How wide is the spectrum of human feelings and passions?
I was taught to make literature beloved by observing the universal language of emotions. We told ourselves and repeated it that this was a key to entering the hearts of our young disciples.
Sing, goddess, of the wrath of Peleus' son Achilles,
the destructive wrath.
This is the first verse through which all readers are catapulted into the infinite spaces of literary imagination, and I like to think that it was no coincidence that fate, before anything else, offered our imagination Achilles' feeling: a super-human emotion, one that defeats death, immortal. Talking about an elevated emotion, therefore, is this another key.
Omnia vincit amor
Capable of covering any distance, from Greece to Sardinia, from St. Petersburg to Paris, capable of crossing the centuries, from the oral myths of ancient societies to our hyper-technological age, from nomadic caravans to sedentary civilizations, emotion moves freely and lands in the souls of old and young, writers and the illiterate, men and women.
After Achilles, there is the honor and love for country of Hector, the familial love of Andromache, Ulysses and his ambition and thirst for knowledge, carrying us from ancient civilizations to modern ones:
You were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Thus we proceed to modern literature and meet the adulterous and infernal love, immortal in its essence, of Francesca and Paolo:
Love, which swiftly seizes the gentle heart…
Love, which permits no loved one to escape from loving…
Love led us to one death…
And the flow continues…
"Guys, which story from the Decameron struck you the most?"
"The tale of Lisabetta from Messina and the basil pot."
A blow to the heart for adults and adolescents, for teachers and learners. Still a passion between life and death.
An emotion that is immortal. This is what is being sought.
And then Emma, Cathy, Anna …
This magic was born orally, crossed oceans and continents thanks to writing, and no art has remained indifferent to it. Not even TV series.
Even in certain TV series, once again, passion surpasses life and becomes immortal.
Walter White is a chemistry teacher in a high school. Like Achilles, Walter White is convinced he hasn't been rewarded as he deserved for his talents and merits. He had significantly contributed with his work to research that earned a Nobel prize, played a fundamental role in founding Grey corporate, a company worth billions of dollars, and found himself empty-handed. Until something snapped. His Agamemnon was the diagnosis of inoperable lung cancer. However, it is not wrath that seizes every fiber of his body, every drop of his blood, every neuron of his brain. His is a thirst for revenge and retaliation, driven by his pride. This emotion and passion will be so overwhelming that from a small seed it will grow to overturn the teacher's personality. And once again, as with the Trojan War, Achilles, and Agamemnon, the consequences of this absolute feeling will affect everyone. Pay attention, I am not talking about indirect consequences, like the flap of a butterfly's wings that can cause an earthquake on the other side of the world, but about tangible, direct, and infinite consequences.
And, as, for three millennia, everyone has been enthralled following the consequences of a Greek demigod's wrath, so, since 2007, viewers have been captivated watching the endless mourning, the souls of anti-heroes going prematurely to Orcus and corpses dissolving in acid in an ill-fated domino started, in Albuquerque, by a click that snapped in the soul of a chemistry teacher.
P.S. Every hyperbolic similarity was decidedly intentional.
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