Star Wars: Good v. Evil?

Garrett Lambur
So while we were over here I re-watched the entire Star Wars Saga. I wish that we could have watched it for class because there is so much to discuss within it and no not in a nerdy way. One of the most interesting things is the underlying connection to good versus evil and the different archetypes connected with this throughout history. It may seem obvious that it includes a battle of good versus evil when you have the dark side and the light side of the force but dark is an archetype of evil and vice versa for light. See, dark itself is not necessarily evil but we connect it with evil because at night we are at our weakest in a sense. At night we do not have the best vision, especially compared to daylight, and there are things that go bump in the night that we cannot explain. In myth, a lot of evil creatures get stronger at night and weaker in the day, example vampires. To explore color even more, you can look at the different color light sabers of the Sith (dark side) and the Jedi (light side). The majority of the Jedi use blue colored light sabers with green thrown in to the mix, or for a special example purple for Samuel L. Jackson’s character (he requested it). All of these colors are associated with good, the color seemingly most associated with good being white but having a white light saber would be weird. The Sith almost all use red light sabers, a color associated with evil, second only to black, or the color of night. But I want to look closer into this discussion at Luke Skywalker in the final episode of the saga. He has to rebuild a light saber having lost his in a fight against Darth Vader. His last light saber was blue but his next one is green. What is key to the green light saber is that in the movie he wears only black outfits while in the first three of the saga all the Jedi wear white with brown. It almost signifies his flirting with the dark side and adds to the color selection for the light saber. Green starts to become an almost in between color of good and evil, it is not clearly associated with either side. Thus the color of Luke’s light saber becomes important because it plays into his flirting with the dark side of the force, the evil side. Then again looking back, the idea of good versus evil is all within the perception of the mind, we create our own definitions of good and evil with experience but due to the influence of culture and society these ideas can become similar through out both. Well thus ends my discussion of the beauty that is Star Wars.