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Record W2065274410 · doi:10.5539/ells.v5n1p42

Initiative in the Novel Voices in the City of Anita Desai: Freedom in Life

2015· article· en· W2065274410 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Imam Alam Khan

Bibliographic record

VenueEnglish Language and Literature Studies · 2015
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicIndian History and Philosophy
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsVisionIntrospectionAestheticsTheme (computing)Perspective (graphical)SociologyMeaning (existential)EthosConsciousnessEpistemologyComputer scienceVisual artsPolitical scienceLawArtPhilosophy

Abstract

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Voices in the City of Anita Desai, is a novel which discusses the idea of freedom in life. The idea of freedom in life is initiative in the subjective novel, Voices in the City of Anita Desai which eventually emerges as the recurrent theme. The novel in stream of consciousness technique delineates the struggle of the people with brutal forces. The novel in discussion also focuses on human relationship and their freedom of life in its real but inner perspective. The people, characters, in the novel seem to be products of the social ethos which get subjective. The movements and patterns both physical as well as mental get self-analytical but introspective. Therefore, the character’s individual quest for a personal meaning in life or can be called freedom in life, is the recurrent theme of the novel in discussion Voices in the City which happens to be unavoidable interest of the novelist, Anita Desai. The investigation, ‘how the protagonists in the novel of discussion try to make their lives significant, meaningful and ambitious by struggling with the conflicts”. The paper researches the struggle for freedom in life in the novel, Voices in the City. A comprehensible and new vision of life has been presented in the novel where new visualization of Indian life has emerged as an idea in this novel, Voices in the City. These voices are the different visions of life which have been put into due attention. Through these visions, a concept of freedom in life incorporates itself in the novel, which gives way to forceful characterization of the novel rather than plot construction. The paper investigates three aspects of the novel, Voices in the City. It tells about the voices of the characters, their importance and subtleties in the novels, strong characterization as well as freedom of creativity which is the subjectivity and sensibility of the novel. The novel is narration and exploration of new mood. The denial of life’s realities has been vividly shown effortlessly. A new way has been suggested, too, in a very clear manner. It’s against the dry intellectuality. It is a vivid description of new mood, new sensibility of new generation where, “feelings run riot, and a new mood—‘melting’ mood of heightened sensibility—should arise in consequence” (Hudson, p. 157). The research has been aimed at presenting the delicacies as well as the obvious feelings towards life and their experiences in individual way which obviously achieves a harmonious effect in the novel, Voices in the City written by Anita Desai. It presents a “powerful articulation” (Iyengar, p. 470).

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.074
Threshold uncertainty score0.363

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
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)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.068
GPT teacher head0.268
Teacher spread0.200 · 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.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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