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Originally Posted by Solitaire1
I was thinking about Star Wars and how the Sith are those who have fallen to The Dark Side. That led me to a comparison to the Green Lantern Mythos. Unlike Star Wars, the Green Lantern Mythos doesn't contain just two sides of The Force, but seven aspects of the Emotional Spectrum, with each color representing an emotional aspect.
Green (representing Will) sits in the middle of the Emotional Spectrum and is balanced. It doesn't control, it supports.
However, the further you get from the center, the more the emotional aspect controls you. As an example, Red Lanterns (Red represents rage and sitting at the far end of the spectrum) are so filled with rage that they tend to be almost unthinking animals, while Star Sapphires (Violet representing love) tend to be completely overpowered by love to the point of obsession.
Considering the aspects that led to Anakin Skywalker's fall to The Dark Side, in Green Lantern terms it would seem like he was strongly under the influence of Red (Rage), Orange (Avarice), and Yellow (Fear). At the same time, he turned away from Blue (Hope) and Indigo (Compassion).
To me it's interesting how the two (The Force and The Emotional Spectrum) seem to bare similarities to each other. Like with The Force, the Emotional Spectrum has two sides and the left side seems to be the more negative side of the two (although there are some negative aspects of the other side). In fact, it has been stated that, like with the Dark Side of The Force, once you fully embrace the Red, Orange, or Yellow you will never turn from that path or free from their influence.
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I don't think you can separate the two sides of "The Force" that simply myself. Anakin fell in love (which is forbidden to a Jedi) and naturally felt fear about the possibility of loss, but if you don't have love in your life you are half way to the dark side of the scale already (IMO) because if you can't feel love you are already pretty empty and Anakin was "supposed to bring balance" to the force. Neither side was really complete because part of their emotional range was suppressed and while the Jedi had good intentions he was pushed into a situation that very few (if any) people could deal with I think. The Good guys wouldn't let him have love and then piled distrust upon him so his career was also suffering and eventually he cracked under the strain. Vader is actually a very tragic figure. He made the wrong choices while under great emotional strain. I'd wager if something like his situation was a real life situation (as far as the emotional strain he was under) and someone snapped the lawyer (for the defendant) would claim temporary insanity made his client do it.