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In the first two sagas of his series, Lucas has thus completed only half of the ancient story of testing and triumph. If he follows the common traditions of mythology and epic history, as he has up to now, Luke will eventually win, and Vader will lose. The larger fight they are engaged in will go on, of course, as long as men exist on earth—or Dagobah—and as long as they continue to invent symbols to cope with adversity and to rein in their own irrational and threatening impulses.