Darth Vader: A Tragic Hero

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He walks in, standing a head and shoulders taller than you, wearing his menacing black cape, his boots thumping on the cold hard tile, you can feel the fear start to cloud your mind, all you hear is the thump. Thump, thump, thumping as he walks toward you, you try to run, but you are held back, petrified, all you can do is watch as this black armored man approaches, you can hear him as his mask converts his breath into a menacing scowl, and then, he speaks, and your fear is now gone. It was replaced by sheer terror. You are having trouble forming words, you just mumble senselessly as you try to reply to what you perceived as the questioning of the men on your ship. But before you can answer you feel your lungs start to tighten, your throat start to close, and in your last seconds of life, you realise, this is not how you had hoped to die, in your home as you say goodbye to your family, instead your fate lies in the hands of the ruthless terrorist the galaxy recognizes as Darth Vader. You think, who is he, why is he this way, what was his life like to make him so heartless, that is the question that we will answer today. who is Darth Vader. …show more content…
raised a slave on his home planet untill stray jedi buy him off and train him. all is going well until he becomes rebellious and falls in love, that is where evil first set its roots into him. after years of corruption inside his head he becomes so messed up that he joins the very thing he was trained to destroy. thus making him the character we all know him

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