Her Father's Daughter (Jabba's Palace, Part 1)

I've sometimes seen the rescue sequence from the beginning of Return of the Jedi dismissed as unimportant, just killing time until the real story begins. I thoroughly disagree. Oh, sure, the musical sequence gets pretty silly and overlong in the special edition, but once you dig deeper beneath the superficialities, you realize that everything that happens in Jabba's palace is rife with symbolism, foreshadowing, fascinating character development, and story parallels which evidence a poetical symmetry. There's so much to examine, I can't even cover all of it in one post, so in this one I'm going to focus on Princess Leia's character arc. The second post will cover more of the overall symmetry it presents in relation to Episode III as well as the latter half of Episode VI.
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