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SPECULATION Saga Trilogies Allegorical?

Discussion in 'General Movie Discussion' started by MyopicPaideia, Oct 15, 2015.

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Do you feel the Star Wars Saga Trilogies to be allegorical?

  1. Yes, intentionally so!

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  2. Yes, but only coincidentally.

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  3. Neither - all tales of good and evil are allegorical on some level.

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  4. No, it is not meant to be allegorical at all.

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  1. MyopicPaideia

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    Having been a fan of Star Wars since childhood, and having been brought up in a practicing Roman Catholic family, gone to a private Catholic university, and transitioned during that time to being completely agnostic, it is actually startling to see the potentially highly allegorical symmetries between the Star Wars Saga story and the Merovingian Messianic tradition.

    Bear with me now, it actually isn't that boring! (yoda)

    Now I don't think that it is some kind of literal direct allegory, meaning that there isn't some kind of direct equivalent in every way to the two sagas, but it does seem fairly clear that in this context we can put Schmi as the Virgin Mary, Anakin as the Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth, and Padme as Mary Magdalene.

    In this scenario you have the Roman Empire as the Empire and the Roman Republic as the Galactic Republic. Of course the timeline has been skewed here so that the Roman Republic actually survives during the Chosen One's childhood, and that he actually helps bring about the fall of Republic into an Empire.

    Jedi Knights and their counterparts the Sith would in this scenario be a mixture between Teutonic Knights, Essenoi priests, and Shaolin monks...

    Anakin's journey as the Chosen One reaches a climax in the Revenge of the Sith, where Mary Magdalene dies giving birth and her and Anakin's children are born away to the French Riviera (Tatooine) where the royal bloodline is hidden away from the newly formed Roman Empire.

    The defeat of the Empire at the hands of the Messianic bloodline in ROTJ help to fulfil the destiny of the Chosen One, and bring his heirs into their inheritance - the sequel trilogies will deal with how the next generation of the Messianic Skywalker line fairs in the new, politically unstable world their forebears left them with. The Roman Empire has split into the Eastern and Wester Roman Empires (First Order + yet to be revealed faction?), the New Republic has taken hold in systems that have been able to extract themselves in the transition, perhaps still holding to the old Roman Republic's values?

    It is a running theory/comparison, and admittedly there are many details that don't quite fit - I mean there are so many different aspects and themes from Eastern and Native cultures throughout the real world that the Star Wars universe draws from, just the main religious concept of the Force being a huge example of this, but the central story of the Sagas revolving principally around the Skywalker family, as confirmed by Kathleen Kennedy, it may be we will continue to find striking parallels to the Merovingian Messianic Bloodline tradition as the story continues to evolve.

    Just thinking about the real historical world in this context makes it easy to imagine and understand that there are many local, regional, continental, and global forces at work simultaneously, and that in a galaxy far far away, it isn't hard to imagine that a central royal bloodline with mystical/religious origins gets mixed up in a lot of epic struggles that have direct and profound influences on the galaxy as a whole.

    Maybe Kylo Ren, for example, is like a Merovingian prince on some level, adopting a corrupted value system based on his grandfather, like the Roman Christian tradition (Sith-like), while Rey has been exposed more to the "purer" Nazarene tradition of the Celtic Church (Jedi-like) in her then native France, based on what happened to them as children.

    Now I realise all of this is merely speculation and conjecture, but to me it is fun to make these comparisons. The Star Wars universe is one of the few fictional realities with enough history and background to be interesting to analyse this way. JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings/Middle Earth and Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time/Randland being the only other two I have found compelling enough to be worthy of the same.

    Thoughts, opinions, discussions?
     
    #1 MyopicPaideia, Oct 15, 2015
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