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Record W1967928210 · doi:10.3138/md.43.2.192

Camusian Existentialism in Arthur Miller's <i>After the Fall</i>

2000· article· en· W1967928210 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Derek Parker Royal

Bibliographic record

VenueModern Drama · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicCultural Studies and Interdisciplinary Research
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNothingMillerComplicityExistentialismHumanityConfession (law)Subject (documents)DramaFaithWonderPhilosophyCultLawPsychoanalysisAestheticsHistoryLiteratureArtPsychologyEpistemologyTheologyPolitical science

Abstract

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An existentialist ethic permeates the fabric of Arthur Miller's drama. Perhaps more than any other American playwright of his time, he constructs situations that not only highlight a particular historical circumstance but also translate themselves into the larger ontological conundrums facing individuals in the last half of the twentieth century. His protagonists are faced with the inescapable project of defining themselves through a series of Promethean choices. Biff, in Death of a Salesman, realizes that Willy "never knew who he was" and refuses to follow him into a similar life of bad faith. In The Crucible, a morc direct expression of dramatic existentialism, John Proctor denies the right of the church and the state to define his actions by choosing death over a false confession, asking the profound question, "How may I live without my name?" Incident at Vichy, a play coming on the heels of After the Fall and continuing the latter's themes, broaches the subject of individual complicity and culpability in the light of an abstract condemnation, especially in the figure of LeDuc, who ha. to wrestle with his own guilt in accepting his freedom while those around him are doomed. He asserts that "there is nothing and will be nothing — until you face your own complicity with this ... your own humanity," In all cases, the individuals assert themselves by creating the terms under which they are to live, heroically or otherwise, thereby assuring themselves an accurate inscription of their names on the tablet of history.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.872
Threshold uncertainty score0.990

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0110.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.035
GPT teacher head0.260
Teacher spread0.225 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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