Friday, November 17, 2023

The Star Wars Saga Contains Many Allegories

The Star Wars Saga Contains Many Allegories

Other than being a clever copy from Frank Herbert's Dune, Star Wars has many cross-over corollaries into the real universe, or galaxy that we share. What are they? Here is a few.

    1) Some have said that all the Star Wars story, according to George Lucas no less, is a tale about a father and his son. 

    Okay. That works.

    2) Good versus evil. The dark side versus the light side. That is the greater theme.

    3) Empires that oppress, large autocracies versus the minority freedom fighters.

    4) Large, awful regimes that commit genocides and run prison camps. Nationalist Germany, Soviet Russia, Maoist China, ad nauseum.

    5) Making it by in a chaotic yet systemic harsh world.

    Discuss.

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