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==Analysis==
"Who Are You?" is a turning point in Faith's arc that sees her taking the initial steps towards redemption.<ref name=marysue/><ref name=stevenson>{{cite book|last=Stevenson|first=Gregory|year=2004|title=[[Televised Morality: The Case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]|publisher=[[Hamilton Books]]|isbn=0-7618-2833-8|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/televisedmoralit0000stev/page/120/mode/2up|via=[[Internet Archive]]|chapter-url-access=registration|page=120{{ndash}}122|chapter=A Tale of Two Slayers: Identity, Sacrifice, and Salvation}}</ref> According to women's studies researcher Elyce Rae Helford, this arc focuses on Faith's anger as it "shifts from externalized rage with underlying self-doubt to vicious and unrelenting self-hatred".<ref name=helford>{{cite book|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/fightingforceswh0000unse/page/30/mode/2up|title=Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer|year=2002|editor-first1=Rhonda V.|editor-last1=Wilcox|editor-first2=David|editor-last2=Lavery |isbn=0-7425-1681-4|author-first=Elyce Rae|author-last=Helford|chapter='My Emotions Give Me Power': The Containment of Girls' Anger in ''Buffy''|publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield]]|page=31{{ndash}}32|via=[[Internet Archive]]|chapter-url-access=registration}}</ref> While Faith has long envied Buffy's more privileged life, she has always held Buffy's moral obligations in contempt,<ref name=stevenson/> believing instead that she is better off being evil than a "joyless", "stuck-up tight ass" like Buffy.<ref name=forster/> Philosophy professor Karl Schudt says Faith's cynical view of morality is revealed in the scene where she,
In their book discussing [[existentialism]] in Whedon's works, Michael J. Richardson and J. Douglas Rabb argue that the body-swap premise allowed Whedon to explore [[Jean-Paul Sartre]]'s notion of "[[Being_and_Nothingness#Part_3,_Chapter_1:_The_look|the Look of the Other]]",{{sfn|Richardson|Rabb|2007|pages=43{{ndash}}45}} whereby an individual's self-identity is predicated on how others perceive them.{{sfn|Richardson|Rabb|2007|page=40}} By inhabiting Buffy's body, Faith gains an external perspective of herself such that when faced with her own body at the end, "Faith is finally seeing herself as Buffy sees her and is even harder on herself than Buffy has ever been."{{sfn|Richardson|Rabb|2007|pages=43{{ndash}}45}} Philosophy professor Dean Kowalski posits that this episode supports [[Plato]]'s argument in the ''[[Republic (Plato)|Republic]]'' that the morally corrupt can never achieve true happiness, as reflected by Faith's inner turmoil even as she gets to live a more desirable life in Buffy's body.<ref name=kowalski>{{cite book|title=Joss Whedon as Philosopher|chapter=On Being Horrible (and an Angel)|publisher=[[Lexington Books]]|year=2017|first=Dean A.|last=Kowalski|isbn=978-0-7391-9666-3|pages=36{{ndash}}38}}</ref> In his book ''[[Televised Morality]]'', Gregory Stevenson writes that the longer Faith pretends to be Buffy, the more she identifies with her and her moral responsibilities, culminating in Faith's decision to save the hostages at the expense of her own escape.<ref name=stevenson/> According to Schudt, Faith has come to the realization that it is the moral duty of the strong, such as Slayers, to protect the weak, and ignoring this duty is what made her an outcast to society.<ref name=schudt>{{cite book|title=Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale|editor-last1=South|editor-first1=James B.|publisher=[[Open Court Publishing Company|Open Court]]|year=2003|isbn=0-8126-9531-3|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/buffyvampireslay00sout/page/30/mode/2up|via=[[Internet Archive]]|chapter-url-access=registration|pages=30{{ndash}}32|author-first=Karl|author-last=Schudt|chapter=Also Sprach Faith: The Problem of the Happy Rogue Vampire Slayer}}</ref>
In her book discussing the representation of identity in media, Caroline Ruddell writes that Buffy's appearance, as dictated by Faith, is a prominent focus of the episode. Faith spends significant time inspecting Buffy's appearance in
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