The decision to the dark side

Carlos Pacheco

English 4CP

11/19/12

5th period

                                                    The decision to the dark side

                 In the Thrilling movie "Star Wars Revenge of the Sith" the chosen Jedi Anakin faces making the decision between choosing the path to the good or dark side. Anakin leads himself towards the dark side that cost him his wife's death and his royalty to the Jedi Council. Soon he will realize that his whole is about to change for the worst.

                The decision that Anakin makes that leads him to the dark side is when he decides to do everything to save his wife. The reason I believe this is the decision that lead Anakin to the dark side is because when Anakin went to go talk to Yoda about his problem about having visions of his wife dying and Yoda tells him in the following quote. "Careful you must be when sensing the future Anakin, the fear of loss is a path to the dark side" says Yoda. Yoda's advice to Anakin is to let go of everything he fears to lose. Even after Yoda's advice Anakin said he won't let his visions come true that when he takes the path to the dark side.

               Chancellor Palpatine had a great impact on Anakin on joining the dark side. Anakin discovers that Chancellor Palpatine is the Sith Lord because he knows the way of the force he is trained to use the dark side of the force. Chancellor Palpatine knew the Jedi council didn't rust him. he tries to encourage Anakin to join the dark side by telling him that the Jedi council does not trust him because he has too much power that's why they don't make him a master. Chancellor Palpatine was not actually totally lying because the Jedi Council didn't really trust Anakin. The reason why was they saw confusion in him, therefore they think he is not ready.

              Anakin begins to act very aggressive towards others. Chancellor Palpatine tells Anakin that he must learn the dark side of the force so he can save his wife. Since Anakin told the Jedi Council that Chancellor Palpatine is the Sith lord they went to go arrest him. As they were about to arrest him he fought back killing some of the Jedi Council members, but master Mace Windu almost defeated him until Anakin interfered by killing master Mace Windu because he believed the Sith Lord is the only one that could save his wife, therefore Anakin killed master Mace Windu. After Anakin kills master Mace Windu the Sith Lord names Anakin Dark-Vador and Anakin calls him master. The Sith Lord tells Anakin Obi-Wan Kenobi is now an enemy of the Republic and Anakin's respond is I understand.

                This is why I believe that when Anakin decided to do everything to save his wife it lead him in the path towards the dark side. If he would have let go none of this would have happened. Anakin concentrated on doing everything to save his wife, but ignored everything else. Therefore the life of the Jedi faded while the path to the dark side widened.