The Will Of The Force

In the Star Wars universe the Force sensitive characters view it and use it in different ways. The Jedi try to give themselves over to the will of the Force, in effect becoming puppets inside their own skins as the Force controls their movements. The Sith try to bend the Force to their own aims. This means the Force is a character in it's own right, and as such it must have motivations or goals but what are they?

Mace Windu, Kit Fisto and even Yoda may have struggled to defeat General Grevious for one reason; they all have a certain style of combat designed to maximise their strengths and minimise their weaknesses. Even Anakin Skywalker uses set styles. General Grevious was trained by Count Dooku to recognise these styles, learn these styles at the start of a duel, then adapt and counter them. The reason Obi-Wan Kenobi was sent to deal with General Grevious is that he doesn't have a style of combat as such, he uses the basic forms but more than any of the others is able to give himself over completely to the Force. The Council knew this.

This puts a lot of trust in the intentions of an unknown character with unknown motivations. I'll look through a few possibilities.

• If the Force wants to protect all of those sensitive to it, Jedi and Sith alike, surely it'd intervene to thwart war between them. After all, if they fight each other to extinction the Force has no vessels left who are sensitive enough to listen to it.
• If the Force wants to favour those who listen to it's will, and willingly become vessels for it's wishes then why would it allow the Sith to win?
• If the Force is willing to be altered in it's aims by the Sith bending it to theirs, then surely the Jedi would be wiped out because they would then give themselves over to an entity who has been corrupted and now wants them dead. Any duels between them would see the Sith win.
• If the Force is altered by the Sith to a particular aim or goal, is it a one off spin to a new direction? Or is it something that will seek to balance itself out when that power stops exerting control over it? Does it then punish the Sith in some way for daring to alter it?
• If the Force plays the longer game and always seeks balance, it will always be in conflict with the present. When the Jedi are in the ascendency it will favour the Sith and vice versa. This would be a warmonger character, not to mention a side changer. How many of the Jedi would give themselves over to the will of the Force if they felt it was acting on the Sith's side?
• If the Force is balancing things out is it denying some of it's abilities to the Jedi because there are so many of them, where the Sith are an endangered species, they need all of the tricks the Force has to offer?
• What happens if both of the Sith are killed and there are none to continue the tradition? The Force itself becomes one-sided. Would that be favouring the Jedi? Or would the Force step in to contrive that at least one Sith is alive at all times, and that he or she is able to find a new apprentice?
• Was the Battle Of Geonosis effectively a cull on the Jedi numbers? Was the Force deciding that the Jedi were too numerous after 1,000 years of relative peace?

One of the messages of the Star Wars saga is that good triumphs over evil, which would imply that the Force favours the Jedi but it doesn't quite add up.

The huge skifter in all of these ideas is how well trained an individual Jedi or Sith is at any particular point. Just because the Jedi try to let themselves go, it doesn't mean that all Jedi could do that, at least in combat. The same applies to the Sith, just because they try to bend the Force to their will it does not mean that they were always successful n their attempts.

If the Force is not a character in it's own right, with it's own aims and goals, then why do the Jedi give themselves over to it? They should be trying to do what the Sith do, in their own way.