AI on Anakin Skywalker’s Descent into Darkness: A Character Analysis
I asked Chat GPT to write about Star Wars: Anakin Skywalker’s descend to the darkside. I am a huge star wars fan, specifically of Anakin Skywalker, now Darth Vader, and his story.
He is seen as Most Evil because his actions showed no mercy. However, I believe a different story, and wanted to see if AI could capture some of those moments. It is hard to say if the AI is right or wrong for this subject, because it is mainly based on opinion and perspective.
First, I typed “I want to write about Anakin’s turn to the dark side. Any format, in essay style please” and AI produced a thorough essay, including a title, introduction, reasons for a turning point, the turning point, consequences, and a conclusion. I was interested to read what it came up with because this is exactly how I like to explain Anakin’s turning into Darth Vader when I speak to people about it.
The introduction paragraph introduced Anakin Skywalker. It spoke about his personality, a promising Jedi… transformation into the Sith Lord Darth Vader. It then provides a transition that lets you know what the essay will cover.
“This essay delves into the complex factors that contributed to Anakin’s turn to the dark side, exploring the psychological, emotional, and external forces at play.”
Although it is well worded, this wouldn’t be the way I would conclude my introduction paragraph. To me, it seems very robotic, and doesn’t really connect well with the reader. I feel like a thesis statement would be best used there.
AI then breaks down the reasons for Anakin’s turnover, or “The Seeds of Darkness.” The three reasons were bulleted, providing good details to the reasons that would help someone understand the storyline better. Same as the introduction, the one thing that makes this short of a good essay is its’ robotic-like tone.
AI concludes the essay with a statement encouraging expanding or modifying the generated essay. I think this goes to show that with the initial question, the chat finds surface level information to provide for your paper, but lacks on the emotional side, unless you choose to ask for modifications and more emotion. If I was writing an essay on Anakin’s turn to the Dark side, I would include names, relationships, details to the situations that caused this transition. The chat struggled to capture that, lacking to even mention the names of Anakin’s loved ones, only that he had some. To someone who isn’t a fan of Star Wars, this information might be insightful enough, but for someone who has seen the sequels, they would know that the emotions are the most essential parts of enjoying the story.