Mace Windu and the Defenestration of Coruscant...

Since Mace Windu's fate is to be cast out of a window by Palpatine's force lightning in The Revenge of the Sith I have to wonder whether this was in the back of Lucas's mind when the character was named (Windu/window).

The form of Windu's death does have a certain resonance. Being thrown out of a window (or defenestrated) was an old form of political protest in Europe, and thus somewhat in keeping with the change in political power which Windu's denfenstration and failed coup represents. It is also of note that the Defenestration of Prague in 1618 was one of the causes of the Thirty Years' War and Palpatine's dispatching of Windu likewise starts a chain of events which precipitates a more or less thirty year conflict between the Empire and the Rebel Alliance ultimately ending with the destruction of the second Death Star. This could be pure coincidence or Lucas could have been plumbing the depths of European history for inspirarion when he came up with the manner of Windu's death and his name.

There is also some possibility that Mace's name is meant to fit in with an elemental interpretation of some of the most prominent Jedi in the Prequel Trilogy and that he is supposed to represent the element of wind. See my article Star Wars Trilogy Framing Devices: Fire, Water and Funerals.

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