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“Star Wars” creator George Lucas has described the first movie as a fairy tale designed for children. However, fairy tales are fables designed to teach us a lesson, and many of the stories in the “Star Wars” pantheon can be analyzed on a deeper level.
“Revenge of the Sith,” the last movie in the original prequel trilogy, came out 20 years ago. The film details the final days of the Old Republic and explains how Sen. Palpatine, the series' prime antagonist, becomes Emperor Palpatine.
According to Lucas, he based the film on Adolf Hitler’s conversion of the German Republic into a dictatorship. Palpatine is the center of the evil in “Star Wars” mythology. The series can be seen as a parable. The Emperor and Stormtroopers are the bad guys, and the Jedi and the rebels are the good guys.
“There’s nothing subtle about this historical allusion in Star Wars. After all, the elite assault forces fanatically devoted to the Galactic Empire share a…
