Star Wars Response

For my outside reading this week, I chose to do my blog about the Star Wars movie. And you can call me crazy all you want, but I’ve never seen all of the movies. Anyways, the most prominent theme that I noticed in Star Wars was a tale of good versus evil. I would say it definitely has something to tell us about that battle between good and evil. It is most prominent in the way Darth Vader has gone from the Evil Man in black armor to a fallen Jedi, the Empty Shell of a Man. But is anyone in Star Wars truly evil or anyone truly good? The only character who is good is the Emperor. This means that everyone else is either a good person who sometimes does bad things, or a bad person who sometimes does good things. Anakin falls to the Dark Side and redeems himself in the end. Luke uses a Force Choke on the guards in Jabba's Palace. But which characters are the good guys doing bad things, and which characters are the bad doing good? Anakin could go either way. There are no good people or bad people. There are just people, who sometimes do good and sometimes do bad. Some characters do far more of one than the other, to the point where they can be categorized as good or evil, but this is a person who is being made by their own actions. Star Wars is a tale of people who choose good or evil, always a mixture of the two over their lifetimes. Good and evil do exist, the Light Side and Dark Side of the force prove it, but people aren’t good or evil all the time.