In "The English Patient" by Michael Ondaatje, set before the Second World War, he critically illustrates four different characters who meet in Villa San Girolamo, an Italian monastery. At the same time, there's a groundbreaking romance that happened between these four characters in that time frame. These four main people are included: a burnt Englishman Ladislaus de Almasy, a twenty-year-old French-Canadian army nurse Hana, a Sikh British army sapper Kip and the Canadian thief David Caravaggio. However, the burnt Englishman, called "The English Patient", is cared for by Hana in an abandoned Italian monastery. Then, there are two other characters, David Caravaggio, Kip, who both meet in the villa. Since the concept of nationality, borders, and social confinement are no longer stable in the wartime desert, national borders and identity in the novel become blurred. and ambiguous. War breaks the boundaries of nations, so identity also brings the feeling of lack of a definable identity. The characters' identities are deconstructed by their attempts to escape their names, their bodies, and their environments. First of all, Almasy represents the multiplicity of identities in this story. As we read the novel, the most fascinating character, Ladislaus de Almasy, whose identity is considered a myth until the end of the story. The novel begins with an unknown "she" and "man". Indeed, the English patient's body is burned beyond recognition and his memory is vague, making it easy for readers to find a blank space in the story to deconstruct his identity. His multidimensional identity can be seen from his anonymity, multiple nationalities and languages, faceless figure. Apparently, names and... middle of the paper..., we could confuse them with the identity of the English patient since they are not sure whether he is a barbarian, a traitor or an English patient. Last of all, all the labels as name, body, language and nationality play a great significance on how society classifies it racially, politically or culturally. However, Almasy himself has, on the contrary, the desire to return to a “pure” state like that of the desert in which his “self” is not marked by name, nationality and other social structures. The mystery of the plots surrounding the title character gives rise to the suspicion that several characters attempt to fill the gaps in his story that history has torn into the fabric of the English patient's identity which remains fluid and therefore ambiguous and multifaceted. Works Cited Ondaatje, Michael. The English Patient: A Novel. New York: Vintage Books, 1993. Print.