The Personality Of Anakin Skywalker In Star Wars

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Anakin Skywalker is a fictional character in famous Star Wars movies. Also known as Darth Vader. On this paper I will examine his personality based on the prequel trilogy, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones and Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. I will start by summarizing the relevant parts of trilogy about his actions, thoughts also important figures and events in his life in order the make a ground for personality assessment. At the first movie, The Phantom Menace, Anakin Skywalker is a nine-year-old slave, living on the planet called Tatooine with his mother Shmi. According to the story, he has no father and never had one. He have certain skills, able to see things before they happen, skillful engineer and pilot considering his age. After he meets Qui-Gon, a jedi master, his life have changed. He separates from his mother and leaves with Qui-Gon in order to be trained as a jedi. Other important figures in his life are Padme and Obi-Wan Kenobi. Padme is …show more content…

They are assigned to protect Padme for a possible assassination attempts. After a while Obi-Wan leaves them for another mission so Padme and Anakin develop their bond even further. They fall in love. While Anakin on Naboo with Padme, he senses that his mother is danger and they go back to Tatooine to see her. Short after they arrived Anakin finds out that his mother kidnapped by the bandits. He finds Shmi at bandits’ camp right before she dies. On that moment Anakin feels great sadness and anger, he lost his control and killed all the bandits including their wives and babies. After that, they reunited with Obi-Wan Kenobi. They send on a mission to capture an evil character called Count Dooku but they fail. Anakin lost his arm in the mission. After that, Anakin marries Padme in a secret ceremony because a Jedi does not allow to have a

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