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The next step in this vignette is that each [[individual ]] sets [[about ]] asserting his uniqueness and supremacy by attempting to destroy the [[other]]. This fight is the [[Hegelian ]] [[primal ]] fight to the [[death ]] which can have only two possible outcomes. In the first and more sterile possibility, neither individual cedes his [[claim ]] to supremacy and one eventually succeeds in slaying the other. The victor is thus returned to his [[position ]] of uniqueness and supremacy, at least until he encounters yet [[another ]] individual and the drama plays itself out all over again. The second possibility is that one of the individuals will succumb to the [[instinct ]] for [[self]]-preservation and surrender to the other. The chief consequence of this surrender is that the loser of the battle agrees to recognise the victor’s supremacy and to come under his [[control]]. This is the point at which we are now able to [[speak ]] of the master (the victor) and the slave (the loser). An irony also occurs at this point in the drama, however, in that the only [[recognition ]] which the master will recognise or accept is that from an equal. The recognition of the slave, falls short of this requirement since his subjection deprives him of the equality vital to a meaningful recognition.