In the trilogies of George Lucas's Star Wars, the main protagonists are Anakin Skywalker and Luke Skywalker. Two completely different but also similar personalities; intertwined by fate. When Anakin Skywalker was seduced by the darkside of the force he was going against his former mentor, Obi-Wan Kenobi. When he fell in the pit of lava and was being "built" again and rose from a human, to this monstrous black robotic looking creature, it reminded me of when Frankenstein's monster rose. The growth of innocence turning into darkness also related to how Victor Frankenstein once used his excuse to tamper with creating life. At first he was "on a quest to free humans from disease, that they would only die a violent death". He was an innocent explorer tampering with "the dark side of the force". This is a direct metaphor to how Anakin was seduced to the dark side, shaded by the innocence of saving his wife and restoring the republic.
-Greg F. Hooks
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