Teacups and Butter: The Importance of Eating in Ibsen’s <i>A Doll’s House</i> and <i>The Wild Duck</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
ABSTRACT: This article examines the significance of food and drink in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House and The Wild Duck, arguing that Ibsen’s staging of physical consumption is an integral part of his innovative realistic dramatic technique. In both plays, food, literally incorporated into the bodies of the actors, functions as an insistent reminder of physicality. Yet, simultaneously, food items like Nora’s macaroons and Hjalmar Ekdal’s bread and butter serve as symbols of the psychological state of individual characters and of the nature and quality of their relationships. Nora’s consumption of macaroons in defiance of her husband’s ban on sweets indicates the potential for resistance in the charmingly shallow housewife and locates the site of that resistance in her body. Unlike Nora, Gina Ekdal denies herself food and drink in order to serve and subtly manipulate her voracious husband. Her model of gustatory self-sacrifice leads to her daughter Hedvig’s misguided attempt to feed her father’s affections with her suicide.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, 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".