Gift and Curse of Freedom: A Study of the Snows of Kilimanjaro From Sartre's Philosophy of Existentialism
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article has a study of the Snow of Kilimanjaro, one of Ernest Hemingway’s most successful short stories. It explores this short story from Sartre’s philosophy of Existentialism, mainly from Jean–Paul Sartre’s view about freedom and responsibility. The hero Harry’s most important turning points and the final struggle and reflection at the end of his life serve a best example to illustrate Sartre’s idea of gift and curse of freedom. Because freedom is a double-edged sword, everyone should take responsibility for himself or herself, therefore, freedom is indispensably linked with responsibility. To ponder about why freedom can be both gift and curse, this article gives an explanation from how the tremendous changes of social structure in World War I and after it had a profound influence on people’s psych, which led them have different views of freedom. The post-traumatic feeling of nothingness and nonsense from the changes of social structure pervades the story, and it is the source of people’s anguish, the curse of freedom.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.022 | 0.028 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".