Anakin and Vader's Guilt
Hello Everyone! It’s a me! I’m back! Welcome back to my blog studying Anakin Skywalker/ Darth Vader through different aspects of motivation and emotion theories. Today we are going to be looking at a specific emotion of Anakin’s and Vader’s which I think is their strongest, their guilt. Lewis describes shame as being internal and originating from specific behavior failure. Writing it as “I made a mistake, and I can fix this”. There are some key moments in Anakin’s and Vader’s story, mostly when he was Anakin that make him a guilt-prone person. Anakin Shedding a Tear after killing the Separatists on Mustafar From what we understand about those who are guilt-prone they have a strong desire to make things right, and oh boy does Anakin and Vader share that desire. I believe this comes from Anakin’s life being told that he is the Chosen One and that his very purpose is to bring balance to the Force and to make things “right” on a galactic scale. What we also can see as someone who is motiv