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Well, I didn't mean to say all of them are ill. Like you said, The Lost Tribe don't have to be like that. That's their culture and they have a little different point of view of things -like their idea they'll save the galaxy. Cadeus, on the other hand... A kidnap is always traumatic and he was kidnaped long before he was captured by the vong. This is just one traumatic experience in his life and he had a lot.
Vader was a slave and that's traumatic, too. He had to leave his mother behind before he was 10, breaking his bond with the only family he had known. And he had to life with the idea he had killed his wife and child. I don't think that would help him a lot to keep his sanity. |
I understand where you are coming from, but it's more of how you define mentally ill. Having had a traumatic experience doesn't automatically make one mentaly ill, although it can. But I myself see a difference between being mentally ill and being mentally unstable or even going through a rough patch and becoming suspectible to corruption that way.
As I said I never felt that Jacen would be mentally ill (although I wouldn't deny him having had enough trauma's before) before his capture by the Vong and him essentailly being corrupted in a subtle way by Vergere. I rather think of it as him being in a really rough spot right there and having been weakend by what happend on Myrkr just before. I don't see him as mentally ill there.
As for Anakin, I would say he's mentally unstable and troubled and I think of him that way all through the PT. He is certainly scarred emotionally and has a lot of anger and fear in him (as the Jedi Councel allready points out in ep.1). It are these emotions that are ultimately his downfall to the dark side because of them being exploited by Palpatine. Anakin wouldn't in my opinion have fallen to the dark side if not for Sidious' influence over him. And apart from preying on these emotions Sidious also justifies Anakins' every bad move as being only natural and logical.
If Anakin did become mentally ill it was because of Sidious and not before, the way I see things.
If having fear and anger in you or having had a trauma in your life ( although I'm not saying that these are good things) makes one mentally ill then there would be very little sane people left.
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