The Nature of Search for Self in Tennessee Williams’ The Rose Tattoo
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Abstract
The aim of this study is to show that the nature of search for self, which is the crux of Williams’ plays, takes a different shape in The Rose Tattoo. As Hooti and Rashidi assert, Every day we pass one another on the street, yet we do not know each other, and we least bother to enter into relationships. We seem to have lost the sense of communal life as we seem to be phobic to sociability. Eventually, it leads to a world of isolation, a world where man finds himself separated by the cemented barriers of indifference. (2010, p.1) This study tries to reveal a search for self which is more fullfilling to the characters in the play than the search for self in Williams’ other plays. All human dilemmas in The Rose Tattoo are resolved, all ideals demolished and all inhibitions uprooted, and to give a more colourful picture of this claim, the study finds it apt where required briefly compare and contrast the characters of The Rose Tattoo and Streetcar Named Desire. unlike the characters of Streetcar Named Desire, the characters of The Rose Tattoo try to adjust to changed reality in terms of the contigency of their circumstances. The study further shows that illusion and reality are not mutually exclusive catagories, instead they co-exist. Key words: Self; Rose Tattoo; Identity; Streetcar Named Desirer Resume: L'objectif de cette etude est de montrer que la nature de la recherche de soi, qui est le point crucial des pieces de Williams, prend une forme differente dans rose tatouee. Comme affirment Hooti et Rashidi: Chaque jour, nous croisons des gens dans la rue, mais nous ne nous connaissons pas, et nous ne voulons pas nous donner la peine d'entrer en relation. Nous semblons avoir perdu le sens de la vie commune et que nous semblons etre phobiques a la sociabilite, ce qui peut eventuellemet nous mener a un monde d'isolement, un monde ou l'homme se trouve separes par les barrieres cimentees de l'indifference. (2010, p. 1) Cette etude tente de reveler une recherche de soi plus appropriee aux personnages dans cette piece que dans d'autres pieces de Williams. Tous les dilemmes de l'homme dans rose tatouee sont resolus, tous les ideaux sont demolis et toutes les inhibitions sont deracinees. Afin de donner une image plus coloree de cette allegation, l'etude constate qu'il existe des comparaisons et contrastes breves des personnages dans rose tatouee et tramway nomme Desir. Contrairement aux personnages de tramway nomme Desir, les personnages de rose tatouee essaient de s'adapter a la realite changee en termes de contingence de leur situation. L'etude montre en outre que l'illusion et la realite ne sont pas des categories mutuellement exclusives, au contraire, ils co-existent. Mots-cles: Soi; La rose tatouee; Identite; Un tramway nomme Desir
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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 | 0.001 | 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 | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 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".