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Struggle of Identity

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  While struggling with the challenge of identity, the individual becomes estranged and loses their uniqueness. The individual, while collapsing to the pressures put on him from society, has a hard time finding a balance between his individual identity and the identity forced by the state or society. After changes in identity have occurred, the individual finds that while he has been required to change; society still treats him as a lower class citizen. These three major struggles; the loss of identity, struggle with balance and difference in treatment are the tribulations that occur when an identity is imposed by the state or society that clashes with the individual's personal identity.
       An individual's identity consists of the characteristics and qualities of a person, considered collectively and regarded as essential to that person's self-awareness. When a person is required to alter their identity by the state or society, the individual looses those characteristics and qualities that make them who they are. Through this loss of characteristics, the individual becomes alienated from their original society; making it impossible for them to return. In My Fair Lady, Eliza, is taken from the gutter and made a "proper" lady with the help and guidance of Professor Higgins and Colonel Pickering. Eliza ultimately becomes a "proper" lady, fit for the royal court balls, however, when she returns to the streets of her origin, it is not possible for her to again fit in with the common folk. Higgins and Pickering had no concern for the welfare of Eliza after their project was complete...