Darth Vader: The Tragic Man Behind the Mask : NPR

He was the powerful, all-but-immortal Incarnation standing tall after a harsh battle. He was the menace, looming over a weary swordsman who kept his blade raised in futile defiance. He was the uncaring master, carelessly discarding minions by the score, their bodies strewn all over the street. He was the traitor who had beaten Simon bloody for tryi

An image is a false conclusion or generalization about life. The idealized self-image (or mask) is a false front, or attempt to portray a perfect generalized picture of who we think we ought to be. Both the image and the mask are motivated by the attempt to avoid in the future certain specific, real hurts of the past. Thus the real feelings of the

persona. We get personality from it, and in Latin it originally meant “a mask; a false face worn by actors”).

The word personality comes from the Latin persona, which means “mask.”