From the first time we see Darth Vader, we know him to be a mechanical, maniacal evil being. We are afraid of him. Until we realize he used to be human. He used to have a wife and mother. He used to be good.
He had a couple of kids. He was a family man. His love drove him to his evil. His view of the world changed.
He was empty.
He was lost.
He was a dog.
He obeyed his master.
And he submitted it to him until his master tried to hurt his child. That's when the dog turned on his master and killed him.
The child's love for him removed the dark side.
The dark side is not unequivocal evilness.
The dark side is a kind of depression.
The dark side does not care about the future because the past is so painful.
It is the removal of hope.
It is the pain from the loss of love.
It is anger.
It is seeing things in absolutes: Always and Never.
According to Yoda, emotion is the path to the dark side.
We see that Anakin's emotion of love drives him to his darkness.
We saw the disintegration of Anakin Skywalker with the loss of his mother.
Jedi's didn't marry because the path of love lead to darkness. Anakin disobeyed that order and married anyways, which again led him to his darkness.
The opposite of love is indifference.
If the Jedi do not love and are not passionate, then they are indifferent.
Who's the good guy: those who love too much or those who don't love at all?
Here's my take:
Darth Vader was an evil dude. That evilness grew because Anakin was passionate. He was full of life and emotion. Love led him to his dark side. He became depressed. Anakin was bipolar. When he felt the loss of love from his mother and wife, he withdrew from the world into a great depression. He didn't care what happened to him anymore...until he found out he had a son. And then he was redeemed.
With a background in finance and marketing, Rick Nicholson owned two highly successful restaurants before selling them to start a consulting business. His current company The Restaurant Ninjas provides tools to the foodservice industry to become more profitable. His book, "The Art of Restaurant Theft" can be downloaded for free at www.therestaurantninjas.com
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