Walter White exaggerates and pushes certain views of life of Marx and the Epicureans to the extreme, which destroys his family, causes harm to others, and even ends up killing him. Karl Marx's philosophy was to harness the full potential of each person's abilities (2) and enable that person to accomplish that work. The Epicureans believed that freedom from fear and this pleasure would bring the greatest good. (1) Walter finds great pleasure in making his meth, he also does it with his greatest intention of being the best he can be. Walt embraces these views of the Marxes and the Epicureans. But he does so in a very deranged way, in a way that is neither consistent with the overall vision nor the practices of these two philosophies. Walt changed significantly throughout the show. In these changes, there were actions, these actions had consequences. These consequences broke the Walt and Jesse family, many people ended up mixed in barrels and many more were killed. Walt was a genius when it came to chemistry, others recognized it, on the contrary, Walt only saw his genius when looking at the Nobel Prize he helped win. His full potential was locked deep within a timid, unambitious middle-aged man. He was too weak to stand up to his wife and despised teaching high school chemistry, even though he had been co-creator of a multi-billion dollar scientific company, Gray Matter. Instead of him, his son looked up to Hank, Walt's brother-in-law, because Hank lived an exciting life on the DEA task force. Hank saw the action, locked up the bad guys and carried a gun. But all of Walt's potential was there, raring to come out. On the other hand, his enormous ego was unknown to him until the day he was rushed to the emergency room. You have mustard on your shirt, Walt replied in a disconcerting monotone to the doctor. Walt had just learned he had lung cancer, but it would be weeks before his family would find out. Walt would become a new person before JR, Marie and Hank found out. Walt would be reborn into a new life of manipulation, crime, and heartless murder in these short weeks. Marx believed that work asserts itself. Marx said that people's abilities and being able to work on those abilities bring fulfillment..