Fictional character from George Lucas's Star Wars — the former Jedi hero Anakin Skywalker who was seduced to the dark side and became the Galactic Empire's enforcer — functioning in MW discourse as the archetypal fallen hero whose redemption through love is the mythological core of the saga.
Functions in popular mythology as the Shadow archetype made sympathetic — the hero whose gifts were perverted by fear, pride, and manipulation — whose redemption by his son's unconditional love demonstrates the Jungian principle that the integrated shadow can be reclaimed.
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