![]() Star Wars is an epic space opera franchise oriented around the film series created by George Lucas. The reactivation or the ‘rebooting’ of the Star Wars franchise, following its purchase by the Walt Disney Corporation, has opened a new space for critical engagement with the franchise. Two decades after Anakin/Vader’s embrace of Darkness, it is his patriarchal connection to his son Luke Skywalker – unencumbered by neither wife nor mother and therefore pure of female taint – that redeems Anakin, destroys the Sith, and restores democracy to the galaxy. 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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