when thinking about this topic, I actually went back and reread all of the Tales of the Jedi comics in search of a better tale of falling to the Dark Side. And why I'll admint Exar Kun and Ulic Qel'Droma are better versions of this than the PT Anakin, I was still looking for something more and something deeper.

I have also thought of the Dark Side like a drug. Maybe not instantly addiciting as was mentioned above, but definately something that the user would crave and go through withdrawals if not used for a time. I always liked the term "seductive" in connection with the Dark Side. So, I was trying to find literary examples. I know some Shakespeare and was trying to think through the tradgedies but couldn't come up with any characters that I thought were a good analogy.

Then I tried to think of any of the mythologies I know and again was coming up a little blank.

In Plato's Republic, Socrates explains how a man goes from being a hero of the people to a tyrant. That was actually pretty interesting.

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