Throughout the films, Anakin makes many fateful decisions based upon his possessive emotional attachments to his mother, his wife, and the sexually ambiguous Palpatine. This paper explores how Lucas’s association of femininity with Darkness, deception and moral decay is dramatically expressed through the Anakin/Vader character and his problematic desires. This malign psychic energy, responsible for the demise of Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker and his reincarnation into Sith Lord Darth Vader, the slaughter of the Jedi Order, and the collapse of galactic representative democracy, is both “feminized” and “feminizing.” It empowers the machinations of the Sith-Emperor Palpatine, the truest villain of the saga.
Abstract of the Paper: Throughout his popular Star Wars films, writer-director George Lucas ideologically and symbolically links womanhood, femininity, and homoeroticism with the Dark Side of the Force.
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