Symbols and Tropes
The Force
May the (Good Side) of the Force Be With YouBasically, as soon as people stopped eating hunks of half-raw meat out of the fire, they started struggling against temptation and their darker nature. F...
American Politics in the 2000s
Politics in the MixOne of the most controversial allegories that arose from this film was the (real or imagined) similarity between President George W. Bush's post-9/11 policies and those of the Ga...
Lightsabers
Pick a Color, Any ColorYou might have noticed that, for the most part, the bad guys have red lightsabers, and the good guys have lightsabers that are … not red. According to the various novels, T...