Editing Dagobah (section)

==Analysis==
Several scholars have interpreted Dagobah as the station of initiation when applying [[Joseph Campbell]]'s schema of the [[hero's journey]], going back to ancient myths, to the character of Luke Skywalker:<ref name=Deyneka>{{cite book |last=Deyneka |first=Leah |editor-last1=Brode |editor-first1=Douglas |editor-last2=Deyneka |editor-first2=Leah |date=2012 |title=Myth, Media, and Culture in Star Wars: An Anthology |publisher=[[The Scarecrow Press]] |chapter=May the Myth Be with You, Always - Archetypes, Mythic Elements, and Aspects of Joseph Campbell's Heroic Monomyth in the Original ''Star Wars'' Trilogy |pages=37–39 |isbn=978-0-8108-8512-7}}</ref><ref name=Adams>{{cite book |last=Adams |first=Klara |date=2022 |title=Vom Artushof zum Palast der Saelde - Heldenreise und Raumkonzeption in der ''Crône'' Heinrichs von dem Türlin |publisher=[[University of Bamberg Press]] |pages=32–35 |isbn=978-3-86309-874-2 |doi=10.20378/irb-55263 |lang=de |trans-title=From the Court of Arthur to the Palace of Saelde - Hero's journey and conception of space in ''Diu Crône'' by Heinrich von dem Türlin |series=Bamberger germanistische Mittelalter- und Freuneuzeit-Studien |volume=5}}</ref><ref name=Booy/> the hero retreats "from society to a world of more primal symbols where he must conquer his own darkness and return to the social world with a new redemptive knowledge."<ref name=Booy/> Dagobah is described as "like something out of a dream" and corresponds to "a spiritual plane".<ref name=Deyneka/> This primordial and isolated place of power, which seems hostile to civilization - the technological R2-D2 "is spat out unceremoniously" - is "a sanctuary of nature" and "creates a space, which like no other, influences the conception and development of the hero".<ref name=Booy/><ref name=Adams/> Leah Deyneka linked the teeming nature of Dagobah with the "[[enchanted forest]] or [[sacred grove]]" which "figures frequently in fairy tales and myths; trees are believed to hold special powers and forests symbolize mastery and transformation."<ref name=Deyneka/> Miles Booy saw Dagobah as a "richly constructed [...] [[semiotic]] environment" which "does not point towards prior films but to widely circulated discourses concerning human consciousness". Its jungle and "dark swamp infested by reptiles" may be considered an image of the subconscious, with Yoda fulfilling the role of the analyst who "raises to the surface" what has been submerged.<ref name=Booy/>

Dan Catalano commented that Dagobah as "an eerie location filled with strange wildlife and shrouded in as much mystery as fog", removed from the technology-filled galaxy, is a fitting device to underline Yoda's status as a "[[Wise old man|Wise Man archetype]]" in the tradition of [[Merlin]], who likewise can be found in places of "wild nature" in [[Matter of Britain|Arthurian myths]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Catalano |first=Dan |date=2012 |title=Wizards and Jedi: A Comparative Analysis Between Merlin and Mentors in ''Star Wars'' |url=https://digitalcommons.molloy.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&filename=3&article=1000&context=eng_litmag&type=additional |journal=The Molloy Student Literary Magazine |volume=8 |pages=11–27 |access-date=6 October 2023}}</ref>

Booy commented that within ''Star Wars'' "[n]o other environment attempts such imagery as Dagobah is constructed of" and that "Dagobah would also come to be the basis for [...] the notion that the film constitutes a form of mythology."<ref name=Booy/>