Glee - The Break Up Analysis

Season 4 episode 4, the scientist song is a stunning powerful ensemble with intense emotions of breaking up from a loving relationship and how you know the flower of a relationship that once bloomed has wilted. The song shows that the relationships have been going nowhere with the lyrics “running in circles, coming up tails”. Each couple broke up from a long distance relationship in the end with slight variations of extra complications which is shown in the lyrics “nobody said it was easy” then “no one ever said it would be this hard”. The flashbacks of each relationship is meant to show how they each started only to reach a break from the complications of life.

The illogical parts of love is seen in the lyrics “Questions of science, science and progress, Do not speak as loud as my heart” beautifully sung by Heather Morris as Brittany Pierce. The only relationship that truly doesn’t work out is Rachel and Finn represented by them standing apart. Each character had a part to shine in this song and they all came together in unison to weep about their hardships in the end.

Another notable thing about this episode is how good of a role model Rachel was by not forgiving Finn for the hurt he's given her by just popping back into her life on only his terms. She mentions that she was hurt by him leaving but she realized that what he did made him a man and him complicating her life because of his struggle makes him anything but a man. Her yelling at him was the right thing to do and is something we don’t see a lot in modern day television as the love interest will always be forgiven for coming back after leaving.

To conclude, Glee is certainly not a show to look to for good ideas with their controversial episodes and takes on important subject matters but this was done right. This song is a fan favorite of season 4 and for good reason.