Amazing Grace : Grace in Star Wars...

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...is really the heart of the entire saga to me, and is the big reason I love the story of Star Wars. One of the things that's great about the prequels is seeing the way that Padme fulfills the same role Luke does for Anakin. In their own ways, both provide Anakin acceptance, unconditional love, compassion, and are ultimately his means of salvation. Looking at grace as a gift, Padme truly provides that for him after the slaughter (I do wonder what Anakin would have done had he not had her to confess to, and if she hadn't accepted him afterward), and I'm curious to see what happens in Ep. III -- you'd assume that he loses her, and loses her grace, and with her and his mother dead, he has lost the whole concept of unconditional love and acceptance completely. Until Luke enters the picture. But as big a gift as Padme gives him in AOTC, what Luke does in ROTJ... Luke never knew Anakin as an innocent child or a good man, and, indeed, was led to hate him and had awful and terrible experiences when he confronted him in TESB. But despite all of that, Luke still managed to love his father enough to try to save him instead of defeat or kill him. Luke's resistance of the Dark Side, and Vader's redemption are nearly miraculous examples of grace. It's the reason ROTJ is my fave of the SW films.

-- posted by amipadme