Anakin Skywalker or How "Good" Turns into Evil
What I caught in the net of the Star Wars myth is HOW Anakin was led to the dark side — it happened, oddly enough, through his inordinate desire for something good.
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Like any true myth, the story about Anakin Skywalker turning to the dark side is compelling in its overwhelming persuasiveness.
C.S. Lewis once wrote in a letter to Peter Milward that a good myth is
“a story out of which varying meanings will grow for different readers and in different ages.”
And then he added that a myth is not really dependent on the …
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